I like it, not much of a critique, but still worth saying
2009/10/20 Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
> YE ARE MANY hailed from overseas
> by megaphone, the poet rising from his couch.
> But were they ever, your people, leonine?
> Diasporic on their home turf, even,
> like ex-pats in training; swept out
> from slum-clearance, unregenerate
> mall denizens. Picture them biro’d in
> with small defiance, misdirected pride
> answering for squandered strength.
> Say we have greatness in us; show it
> where it is. That it is greatly
> to be feared is shown elsewhere, in mirror-
> visor, reinforced perspex riot-shield;
> the sabre swung from horseback, cleaving the ruck.
>
> * * *
>
> Returning to the poem that made me want to write poetry: Shelley’s The
> Masque of Anarchy. More to come, I hope.
>
> Dominic
>
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David Bircumshaw
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You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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