Lying
caused this blight:
half-light
filtered through chiaroscuro
windows.
Things that trick us are named
routinely with antonyms:
it's said that oil glistens
and ignorance
is bliss.
Each family's bed-rock
of faith is mocked.
Has common sense grown so un-
fashionably dangerous
to the health of our heads? -
I tell you:
politics is dead.
Personally,
I will shut my mouth this year
if it will mean less
terrible damage to the heartlands.
I intend to nurture the wood-stock,
and bring home fruit in my hands.
nice write here! By the way, thanks for reading and commenting on my poems.
This poem's in respectful response to Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Politics' - her first poem as Poet Laureate.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
A fine write Jaqui... regards Alf