Submissions by Josh (Joshua Bond)

POEMS AND SHORT STORIES

Poet Introduction I write mainly poetry for the inner journey. I also have a feisty side-line of writing poetic commentaries on the war industry and politics & culture. "When power corrupts, poetry cleanses" (JFK, Oct 1963)

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Josh
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Jun 2021 11:49pm

Gogyoshi Poem, Nr.15 — Tech Disbelief

The young guy giving the TED talk
half my age and dangerously naïve
believed the latest tech would save the world.
I can tell him there’s nothing wrong with technology
except when, like religion, people believe in it.
 #technology   #environment   #religion   #TruthOfLife   #philosophical 
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Josh
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th May 2021 3:42pm

Woke (an extended villanelle)

Woke (an extended villanelle)
 #politics   #PowerOfWords   #philosophical 
192 reads
7 Comments
Josh
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Apr 2021 10:30pm

What Einstein Said (a villanelle)

What Einstein Said (a villanelle)
 #rhyming   #TruthOfLife   #historical 
219 reads
16 Comments
Josh
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Mar 2021 9:29am

The Job

The Job
 #dreams   #LifeAsAWriter 
 #WritingPoetry   #NaPoWriMo2021 
253 reads
11 Comments
Josh
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Mar 2021 10:17pm

Sixty Seconds of Spring

Sixty Seconds of Spring
 #inspirational   #flowers 
 #spring   #uplifting 
262 reads
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Josh
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Mar 2021 10:20pm

Booked

The Book of Heroic Failures
lists people
who believe they did;

The Heroic Book of Failures
canonises people
who believe they didn’t.


 #technology   #TruthOfLife 
 #historical   #philosophical 
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Josh
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Mar 2021 9:55pm

Red Carpet

Red Carpet
 #anger   #politics 
309 reads
23 Comments
Josh
SELF POEM
Published
22nd Feb 2021 10:35pm

Gogyoshi Poem, Nr.14 — Evening Togetherness

We were lost in different novels
experiencing parallel universes
when I asked Jeeves to make us a pot of tea;
the cat snorted, so I got up and made it myself — and all
in the same room under the same moon.
 #marriage   #home   #cats 
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Josh
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Feb 2021 9:10pm

Gogyoshi Poem, Nr.13 — Back-Up

so I said to Big Brother
Don’t bother watching me,
I’m practising mindfulness.
Big Brother replied I’ll keep watching
just in case you lapse.
 #politics   #TruthOfLife   #rebellion 
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Josh
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Feb 2021 9:40pm

Gogyoshi Poem, Nr.12 — Planet of the Apeshits

I fear for the day when animals treat humans
like humans treat animals — cooped up in confined spaces,
fed body-altering GM food, injected with hormones,
chlorinated fluorided drinking water, harvested for body-parts,
experimental herd vaccinations … etc, … etc, …
 #science   #animals   #nature   #food   #humankind 
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Josh
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
6th Feb 2021 8:10pm

Gogyoshi Poem, Nr.11 — Wheel of Unfortune

He had a reluctant extra job
as an occasional hired assassin and she reluctantly
worked boring long hours on a production line in the local bullet factory.  
They did it, honourably, to help their kids through college,  
just as their own parents had done.
 #parent   #family   #philosophical 
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Josh
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
2nd Feb 2021 11:34pm

From The Same Seed

HOW A SLIPPERY SLOPE OF LANGUAGE DETERMINED THE DIVERGENT CAREER PATHS OF TWO POETS

 
COMMON INTEREST……………CAREER PATH A………...CAREER PATH B
POETRY………..…………………......Poet A………………..............Poet B
Aesthetics…………………………....artiste…………………….........artist
Language…………………………......word-smith……………….....scholar
Ideas………………………………........free-thinker………………....original thinker
Difference…………………………....eccentric………………….......sceptic
Going against the flow………….non-conformist…………....individualist ...
 #identity   #WritingPoetry 
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