i thought of a town

Cherry

By socialeaf

Sun, 20 May 2018
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i thought of a town

where the homeless

are swept up

 

to make way for

tax-funded

royal weddings

 

only being allowed

to return to their

haunts once

 

the carriages and

bewildered horses

have paraded past

 

where their

flattened boxes and duvets

would undoubtably sully the day

 

what a town

what a nation

what a world

 

i thought of a chapel

where marauded wealth

is displayed

 

that time and inheritance

is supposed to have

absolved

 

where the lord’s favour

could not be more clearly

channeled by man

 

absorbed by pallid

smirking faces

and the stiffness of position

 

what a chapel

what a church

what a god

 

 

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Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Very moving. Did you read parson thru's poem on the same subject?

https://www.abctales.com/story/parson-thru/refrain

 

Submitted by socialeaf on

Thank you! I haven't yet. I will. 

 

Submitted by socialeaf on

Now have. So good! 

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

This is great socialeaf. Really gets to the point. Yes, and that marauded wealth is still being marauded and blighting lives. You bring several points together in a good poem. Very thought-provoking.

Parson Thru

Submitted by socialeaf on

Thank you Parson Thru.

 

Submitted by Pat G on

Captures the fury and frustration so many people feel.

As a muscly weightlifter at my local gym said, when it was on the telly there, 'I don't give a fuck about him or a fuck about her. Why don't they just fuck off'.

Submitted by socialeaf on

Haha. He nailed it!