speechless as usual...


Pot

She has a new pot for her pencils
Cool blue and white... it is quite the thing!
Yet she sits and ponders her pleasures knowing
Her government is slovenly trying
To distance itself from its responsibilities...
Trying to ease us to abandon maimed soldiers.

Ah! that's the thing
About pots
More rarely or not
We use them every day...
Like our government uses our soldiers boldness...
When they are broken
We simply throw them away...
After all... they are not human...
Just terracotta soldiers
Left to gather dust.

They will do it you know
If they can... and they seem to think they must...
When a man has laid down his life for his country
They will abandon his wife and children to poverty
Because they can.

Someone once spoke of homes fit for heroes
Someone else quite cleverly interpreted it
As heroes fit for homes...
I call them abandoned.

I ponder my blue and white pot

It is a peripheral thing that pleases
A distraction we are taught to cover ourselves in.
Please soon it might stop working.





Poetry by jenks The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2009-07-29 at 00:38

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Sid Gardner
Sacrifice in the UK comes at a price.That price equates to a poloticians expenses claims form.Why bother fighting for a country where half the population wish they were somewhere else anyway.In addition the government are embarassed that they have to fight an 'Agressive war' Which goes against their doctrine of appeasement and jellyfish mentality.
2009-08-01


Elle The PoetBay support member heart!
very true Linda - it is scandalous!

Elle x
2009-07-29


Stan Cooper The PoetBay support member heart!
Jenks...you've hit a home run with this very honest poem

Thanks

xxx Stan
2009-07-29


NicholasG
Same goes for Canada and the USA.
A poem by a veteran poet protester:
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=6osiomJONH4
2009-07-29


Keiko
This one is neat. Your writing is inspiring
2009-07-29


Brian Oarr
I love it when poets get political. Who better to speak out in protest? You go girl!
2009-07-29



Yes my friend! it is a big topic in Britain at the moment. Sending our lads out to die for nothing! because that is what is happening...nothing. They speak only now of communication, why? Because our boys are dying out in a foreign land with no hope of changing a civilisation, that has existed there, for hundreds of years. The costs are high, as those in power, are now seeing in medical expenses.

Colbolt blue and White Anger....

You may be speechless but your pen is not.

Tai, hardly able to smile in these shameful circumstances
2009-07-29