Index to poems

1 IN MEMORIAM –
G B 1215-2001
Magnificent Charter, now capitalist dross,

2 Opium and Oil
Opium wars generated opprobrium

3 VENGEANCE IS WHOSE?
We haven’t learned no matter how we yearn

4 George W Bush
At the beginning of the third millennium

5 Measuring
He measured out his life in coffee spoons;

6 Velvet Fascism
She walks in the rhetoric of beauty

7 Doctor David Kelly
A scurrilous report by the BBC

8 A modern Mask of Anarchy
Basra – 19th September 2005
Two men dressed like mujahadeen

9 Sonnet for Superior Man
I am king, he said, of all I survey

10 Our green and pleasant land
Our green and pleasant land

11 WWII – 60 years on - 2005
Why are they marching mother,

12 FOR THE ENRON MAN WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE
Business was booming since he’d ridden the goat

13 R.I.P. HABEAS CORPUS
The Gulag Archipelago gave conscious thought

14 2020 VISION
Ninety eighty four is reality

15 LIBERTY BUILDERS?
Time, they say

16 People are people through people
(a Zulu aphorism)
It is those years tween teen and man:

17 They died for what?
Whether Tony Blair and all his henchmen

18 Smoke and mirrors.
We have a war on terrorism in our midst

19 Guarding the Guardians?
Baying dogs with sharp teeth,

20 They’re good boys really
Their swaggering gait exaggerated

21 Hungry Black Dog
Black despondency in emphatic minor keys

22 Mother-in-law
Parcelled in string and brown paper

23 MAN AND WOMAN
He saw an image She was divine

24 Another poem
He came to death, or did it come to him

25 THE ART OF WARFARE
‘Chess was always a man’s game’

26 Three moves.
Pawns move forwards

27 POETRY IN MOTION
To write a poem of love, a song of dreams

28 FROM GOLD TO CLAY
Plato the spin doctor to Socrates

29 DADDY
Where have you been to Daddy

30 S.O.S.
They call themselves Free Masons

31 CRUSADING AGAINST OSAMA
Bin Laden a nomenclature of terror

32 SON
O my son can’t you see

33 Hot house pressure
Every murmur heard in the toddler group

34 Grandpa
What did you do in the war Grandpa?

35 Christmas present
It was Christmas eve and he was plastered

36 TRIPE AND ONIONS
What is wrong with me, why does

37 Love’s imagination
What is it to love, adore, admire?

38 PET LOVE
Asleep a shiver quivers

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Phallic obelisk


40 Ronnie Maddison
No such thing as Gulf War Syndrome

41 A Wake
Just one wrinkled face

42 POETRY IN MOTION
To write a poem of love, a song of dreams

43 A brief history of apples
Spring gives birth to

44 The Dinner Party Circuit
At dinner tables all over the city

45 Perceptions of reality
They’re out to get us say the press

46 Chasing the Dragon in Oakham
Mogul dealer, Mr Big of Corby

47 Necessary scum
I’ve mastered the art of grunt.

48 Blind deaf and dumb
There are none so blind as those who will not see

49 Tony’s cronies.
Democracy is necessary to government

50 Cogitating?
I think therefore I am they chorus

51 From Berridge to Blair
Patches of rail lines overgrown in woods

52 Tripping
Morphine sated pain relief

53 Operation Ganymede –
Buckinghamshire Police – Mail Wed 28 July 04
Moist hot and humid in rich Summer sun

54 Anonymous Janist –
Radio 4 Wed 28? July 04
He died an excellent death

55 Tramping philosopher
Old haggard man with holes in his trousers

56 Gravy train
Constellated stars of reale politique

57 Royal Arch
We are not a secret society

58 The Season
Waltzing somnambulists lend beauty and grace,

59 I’VE HAD A DREAM
Life is but a dream of nightmare visions

60 Lord Acton
“Everything secret degenerates.”


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