Poetry - Lynn White

  In The Club Oh, the arrogance embedded there, that sense of entitlement of those who can   those who can and do. Our Lords and Masters pulling our strings while hidden away in that different world, a Rich Man’s Only Club where champagne corks popped as they pulled the strings for each other. Yes, a rich man’s club par excellence and, though druggies were plentiful, Welfare scroungers were absent and only a few black bodies gained admittance to this most in-decent society. So where do we go now after we’ve seen a lord in his knickers and a prince on his knees, where now   from that place where no crimes   were committed, “don’t you know.” Do you know where now? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2HNZTQF?content_source=fb&fb_content_id=Q9-wBQEky0mjvG92v6sKoztA-QwSGFYnBrSQUFPW2PJ9qRlMCGRTqSLlre7oZc6mKw&channel_type=fb&fbclid=IwY2xjawR-P-xleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeTgQMhkpldydikfqzse5ZfJXoD_EHMVHFDsm194zy5xcsRaKL1w9Uu-Pth2Q_aem_ZBoGi...

  Faking It The search goes on to find it that golden transformation that makes base into precious and spins a thread of gold. Yes, there’s a new alchemist on the block and he has it to a T faking gold to make gold sneaking forth to guide and gild your path with threads of gold   spun   yarns. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2HNZTQF?content_source=fb&fb_content_id=Q9-wBQEky0mjvG92v6sKoztA-QwSGFYnBrSQUFPW2PJ9qRlMCGRTqSLlre7oZc6mKw&channel_type=fb&fbclid=IwY2xjawR-P-xleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeTgQMhkpldydikfqzse5ZfJXoD_EHMVHFDsm194zy5xcsRaKL1w9Uu-Pth2Q_aem_ZBoGi69E0CYzUrrhSoYkvg

  The Great Dictator He thinks he’s so fine resplendent well groomed perfectly dressed strutting and tupping to trump all their tricks. He’s an early riser and cocky as cluck his voice always loudest above all the rest his promises always fatter and juicier soon they’ll be kings of their castles, he says. Then he calls them to roost in the little shack that is their home.   His roost is grander. He rules it now and with his bone sharp spurs, he’ll defend it to their death. They’re all listening now, the powerful, the powerless obediently following his orders but one day all those fluffy chickens   will come home to push him off his perch. Then they’ll take him home. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2HNZTQF?content_source=fb&fb_content_id=Q9-wBQEky0mjvG92v6sKoztA-QwSGFYnBrSQUFPW2PJ9qRlMCGRTqSLlre7oZc6mKw&channel_type=fb&fbclid=IwY2xjawR-P-xleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeTgQMhkpldydikfqzse5ZfJXoD_EHMVHFDsm194zy5xcsRaKL1w9Uu-Pth2Q_aem_ZBoGi6...

Ground Force Gaza Episode Two This poem is an update. I wish it wasn’t. The original was written in 2014. I didn’t expect to write a sequel, but here we are again. One hour to leave carrying what you can knowing everything you love will be destroyed   behind you,   you and 1.5 million others. You and 1.5 million Others. Who could do this? People could not do it. Soldiers. Things in uniform obeying orders, yes sir no sir-ing their way into oblivion. They could do it. They would do anything, if told to. Humanity suspended. Killing machines.   Destroyers of dreams with their tanks and bulldozers, burying them in the rubble with the bits. With the bits of bodies,   the hands and the feet, the breasts and the balls. Things in uniform. They could do it. Revenge is never sweet. But maybe if enough things die they will stop their slaughter. Maybe if enough things die they will become extinct like the dodo, the stuff of legend like the unicorn. I hope so. https://www.amazon.c...

  A Gorey Moment I sometimes have a Gorey moment wondering what could have been if the hanging chads hadn’t hung, or if Gore had hung up his gentleman’s suit and cried “Fraud” as loudly as Trump was to do. No hate to fuel 9/11, no war in Iraq,   perhaps the end of history   would be nigh as Fukuyama predicated, existing divisions becoming historic and no new ones created. With more Gore less blood would be spilled. There would be no Bushfires burning the sun would be shining   but without its intensity, the storms would be still and the world would be stable. It was hanging by a thread and we missed it missed the chance to grasp those chads hanging. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2HNZTQF?content_source=fb&fb_content_id=Q9-wBQEky0mjvG92v6sKoztA-QwSGFYnBrSQUFPW2PJ9qRlMCGRTqSLlre7oZc6mKw&channel_type=fb&fbclid=IwY2xjawR-P-xleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeTgQMhkpldydikfqzse5ZfJXoD_EHMVHFDsm194zy5xcsRaKL1w9Uu-Pth2Q_aem_ZBoGi69E0CYzUrrhSo...

  Plastic Pipeline “He’s got a plastic heart, plastic teeth and toes, plastic knees and a perfect plastic nose. He’s got plastic lips that hide his plastic teeth and gums”, so sang the Kinks then about their plastic man in 1969. Now in the twenty-first century it seems he’s here as plastic gushes everywhere over land, over sea and into our very being as plastics ingested from our food, and inhaled in from the air we breath become part of our bodies, part of ourselves to be inherited   by our children. We fill every hole in the ground and soon the sea will be transformed into plastic land. We re-cycle it by the shipload from rich places to poor, places where the people don’t matter, where “plastic man don’t feel no pain”. There we dump it on the newly plasticised people   in the plastic land we’ve created for them. https://stortellerpoetryreview.blogspot.com/2026/05/super-sized-series_0254073297.html