Poet, Black Bough Poetry nominee - ‘Best of the Net’ and Pushcart Prize. Scottish Centre for Geopolitics, Broken Spine Arts, Sidhe Press, So bored by Trump.
Valros, France
Joined September 2012
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So the wind came,
its cold Easterly claw,
as I knew it would.
And the cherry blossom
became snow, drifting
high on the uncut grass.
©️April 2025
How strangely incurious the European migrants are. None have ever enquired as to the fate that befell the indigenous populations of the Americas. One is left to assume that these millions of people simply left of their own accord.
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Well, well, well it seems that the great Philip K. Dick was right again; predicting pre-crime in his novella ‘Minority Report’.
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill theguardian.com/uk-news/2025…
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Good morning all at #PromptCombo . We are experience a momentary staff shortage so I’m on this week too. This week’s prompt is #together . However my printer isn’t working so please bear with me and I’ll post the prompt this afternoon.
Young people to the armed forces, cuts to disability benefits amid a general campaign against the weakest in British society and a government-supported assisted dying Bill. The very core of Labour’s social policy.
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Hi all at #PromptCombo and thank you to Fidel for last week’s great prompt. This week we are considering #aura , the feeling of a place or person… Everyone is welcome to contribute.
@dragonslayerma.bsky.social , @paulbrookes.bsky.social , @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social ,
ALT Poem-Gernika
Every day you can watch an old man sitting on a lemon chair, in front of an expensive fireplace, sharing his doleful Dr Strangelove thoughts about the world and how he would change it if he could. It’s free on-line.
😳😳😳
“I love Canada …but the United States can't subsidize a Country for $200B a year. You have to run your own Country…and to be honest with you, Canada only works as a State…I'm sorry, we have to do this…” -President Trump
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A light doused by cloud
and drizzled night has left
its tears on the pale petals
of the rose by the door.
March 2025
There is neither accurate news here nor cogent analysis; only paranoia, wild projection and myth-making.
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The Clash - I'm So Bored With The U.S.A./Train In Vain (live youtu.be/U0GfTXuagY0?si=J5x5… via @YouTube
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Donald Trump is the most powerful imbecile the world has ever known.
He is the cat’s pyjamas!
(After Woody Allen’s Zelig)
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For @TopTweetTuesday with thanks to @MatthewMCSmith . My poem about you -know-where. With love to everyone.
I suspect that if we
ever get there, in one
of Ellen Strangelove’s
taxis, it will look like
the inside of one of
those huge hangers
they have in New Mexico.
With very best wishes and thanks to @TopTweetTuesday and @aperrincycling for this week’s very timely prompt. Here is my recent early Spring experience
ALT Poem - ‘We sit…’
If a group of extremely committed political activists, connected to some of the world’s wealthiest people, keep telling you what they are doing and then do it, believe them. Don’t laugh or mock or deny. Get ready. Hitler wrote it all down first, nobody believed him either. 😱
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The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.
Virgil
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A single egret waits
on a rock at cove’s
edge. The sea laps
just beyond his long
white toes. Soon,
the head of a small
cormorant will break
the black water, nod
and they will begin
fishing together among
the jagged outcrops.
February 2026
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With apologies for the delay and for not participating last week (neurones fried by flu), here is this week’s #PromptCombo .
#Senses is our theme and here too is my starter. Love to all.
ALT Poem - Alive