Poetry

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    restrictive social distance by Jules Blue

    This poem was an entrant in the Ledbury Poetry Festival – Lockdown Poems (July 2020). Visit this and other poems at https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/lockdown-poems/ is it easy looking backwards now to former […]

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    First They Came…

    From speeches by Pastor Martin Niemoller, 1946-1979. First they came for the Communists,And I did not speak out,Because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists,And I […]

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    The Mask of Anarchy

    Here is a very abridged version of the famous ballad poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written on the occasion of the Peterloo Massacre, Manchester 1819. Stand ye calm and resolute, […]

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