Copy of Eric Gill Station of the Cross
08 Saturday Apr 2023
08 Saturday Apr 2023
29 Monday Aug 2022
Posted Crime, Environment, Nature, News, Poetry, Relationships, Social Comment, Writing
inTags
agribusinesses, Amazon, habitat loss, illegal loggers, Man of the Hole, North Rondonia, pistoleros, sarampion, sestina, yams
The harbingers of the highway, strange men –
pistoleros? – murdered his tribe. Alone,
he raises maize and yams. He is the last
to roam 4,000 hectares; to survive
sarampion, flu, smallpox and the loss
of relationships, family and friends.
The agribusinesses have been no friends
to Amazonian rainforests. Men
decimate the land; their gain is loss.
This man has lived for twenty years alone.
With four, or five, some other tribes survive,
but human diversity will not last.
When the illegal loggers have, at last,
razed every tree to the forest floor, friends
of the indigenous will not survive.
Stripping rare plants that might have healed men
will leave us with dilemmas, all alone,
to face health crises; scientific loss.
In today’s world we experience loss –
loss of our souls; our languages. The last
man to roam North Rondonia alone
at least felt what it was once to have friends.
He knew the co-operation of men
was vital for tribe members to survive.
Without his wisdom, how can we survive?
No man is an island. All sense the loss.
Our planet is affected – even men
who murdered his kin. The effects will last,
impacting their families and their friends.
Doubtless their guilt should not be borne alone.
Corporations do not erode alone.
Immunity itself will not survive.
Time’s arrow can pierce foes and even friends.
The Man of the Hole, who suffered great loss,
knows his breath will be surrendered at last,
but he holds that in common with all men.
Friends of our earth, how shall we survive loss
of habitats and species? Fellow men,
look at this last man. He’s not alone.
A post of the poem I already published in February 2021.
‘The Man in the Hole’ was found outside his straw hut, dead in a hammock
and covered with Macaw feathers. He was aged about 60 and no foul play
is suspected at this time.
03 Wednesday Aug 2022
19 Monday Jul 2021
02 Friday Jul 2021
Posted by Candia | Filed under art, Crime, Literature, mythology, Supernatural
23 Friday Apr 2021
Posted Architecture, Crime, Environment, History, Nostalgia, Photography, Social Comment
in07 Wednesday Apr 2021
Posted Animals, art, Crime, Education, Environment, Humour, Photography, Social Comment
in18 Thursday Mar 2021
Rokeby Venus: National Gallery, UK
unsuccessful MP beautiful paradigm refused breakfast
backward glance
ageing face gawping men mirror image
five slashes
almond-eyed Madonna broad-shouldered detectives opened newspaper
pretend sketching
broken glass
slippery parquet
thrown Baedeker
crowd’s fury
cooling-off room
six month sentence
force-fed
newspaper image backward paradigm ageing men
broad-shouldered Madonna
09 Tuesday Feb 2021
Posted Crime, Poetry, Social Comment
inIn El Salvador there’s an assumption,
in many cases, that a miscarriage
is the consequence of an abortion.
Girls who have been raped can lose their freedom.
A premature, or unviable birth
can result in a forty year sentence.
How can a country of that name sentence
women when it reveres The Assumption
of a virgin? Supernatural birth
protected Mary from a miscarriage
when she experienced threats to her freedom.
State infanticide – worse than abortion?
Las 17, accused of abortion,
were subjected to a lengthy sentence
in a land whose motto includes ‘Freedom’.
Children, trafficked, may face an assumption
which can lead to Justice’s miscarriage –
Mata ninos -? Rather, victims from their birth.
After civil war there should be re-birth,
with an enlightened view of abortion
and understanding that a miscarriage
is, for women, a kind of life sentence.
Why should any state make an assumption
that stillbirths express a woman’s freedom?
Accused of homicide; denied freedom
because of complications with a birth!
To disregard is to make assumption;
logical process suffers abortion.
The powerful deliver the sentence.
There’s no calculation in miscarriage.
It’s spontaneous; there is no freedom
expressed. The women uttered no sentence:
I now intend to sabotage this birth.
Or, Drinking this will promote abortion.
Blanket blame’s an ignorant assumption.
Denying freedom and pronouncing sentence
on those who suffer miscarriage, stillbirth
is, in itself, a monstrous abortion
and an assumption of omniscience.
19 Wednesday Feb 2020
Posted art, Bible, Crime, mythology, Personal, Photography, Relationships, Religion
inGloucester Cathedral
by Candia