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I like your poem, Dominic, except for 'verdictive', which is the kind of usage that reminds me of a time when the USA had 'sociology' professors who wheeled out tomes that obfuscated their being apologists for Detroit industrial practices in a language that was stuffed with words like 'verdictive', no, it doesn't suit the poem! I'm afraid I thought Talha Ahsan's poem a dud, sorry, but it doesn't mean I support his extradition, though not because he's supposedly more sensitive as 'a poet' or because 'he had a private education at Dulwich College', as one site mentions, but because firstly, as A.L.Kennedy writes, no-one, no-one at all, should be subject to the horrors of supermax, which is obviously a system designed to make inmates insane, and in particular because the evidence implicating him seems to have been obtained illegally. On 27 May 2012 00:38, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > FOR TALHA AHSAN > > We - poets - > are feckless creatures. > The perfections of scripture > are not in our line - > > I say scripture: recitation, > perfection of recitation, the voice aligned > at once with its deepest impulse, everything > coming out right - > > We stammer our verdictives, on which force > pivots, may lose its balance. I'm not sure > that's what you need to hear. > I would be with you > > somehow, if in profession only. > It is one thing to be the fool > we all are, another to be taken > for an asset. Oh Talha, by the mercy > > of whatever God, come through in safety; > by men's mercy, though it cannot be > depended on, be plucked out from the eye > of tyranny; be back amongst us soon. > > --- > > (for context, see http://freetalha.org/) > -- David Joseph Bircumshaw "We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan." -* F. Sionil José* Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/