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)
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
24th Apr 2022 8:09am
24th Apr 2022 8:09am
Villanelle Nr.22 — Languaridge Connspinnery
These gray daze languaridge has bean phlished
down the loo, croodoozing a plight old stink —
but saye so, and yorra connspinnery smearist
Mapinulation of schmass oblivnion has crissed
a line — evlyone’s a bio-hazzad link:
gray daze indeed wenn languaridge has bean phlished
Sir-Jest a drooling elite haz gott phoke mished
purloining the drotts to schtopp sheeple fink?
Yorra kneeville connspinnery smearist!
Gotchahyperbole of meedya, daily glished
on the peepull makks yawrise blink-k-k —
daak daze indeed —...
down the loo, croodoozing a plight old stink —
but saye so, and yorra connspinnery smearist
Mapinulation of schmass oblivnion has crissed
a line — evlyone’s a bio-hazzad link:
gray daze indeed wenn languaridge has bean phlished
Sir-Jest a drooling elite haz gott phoke mished
purloining the drotts to schtopp sheeple fink?
Yorra kneeville connspinnery smearist!
Gotchahyperbole of meedya, daily glished
on the peepull makks yawrise blink-k-k —
daak daze indeed —...
#politics
#apocalypse
#PowerOfWords
#nonfiction
#NaPoWriMo2022
70 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
7th Apr 2022 9:55pm
7th Apr 2022 9:55pm
Villanelle Nr.21 — Advice to a Budding Tyrant
In order to control the masses tight
invent a myth they’re crap, and born in sin
add violence to the mix, for might is right
And that’s the constant fundamental fight
to make your story stick above the din …
it orders the control of people tight
And once the story settles, feeling ‘right’
you shape its course to show you always win
the reset flows from there for might is right
It’s good to hide the lies right out of sight,
use psycho-moves to hype the max and min
exacting strict control of...
invent a myth they’re crap, and born in sin
add violence to the mix, for might is right
And that’s the constant fundamental fight
to make your story stick above the din …
it orders the control of people tight
And once the story settles, feeling ‘right’
you shape its course to show you always win
the reset flows from there for might is right
It’s good to hide the lies right out of sight,
use psycho-moves to hype the max and min
exacting strict control of...
#corruption
#violence
#politics
#rhyming
#TruthOfLife
136 reads
7 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Feb 2022 7:28am
18th Feb 2022 7:28am
Haiku/Senryu, Nr.06 — Practice ...
... does not make perfect.
Good, bad, right, wrong, true, untrue
practice makes programmed.
Good, bad, right, wrong, true, untrue
practice makes programmed.
#TruthOfLife
#senryu
#philosophical #pandemic
#philosophical #pandemic
169 reads
11 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
14th Jan 2022 4:56pm
14th Jan 2022 4:56pm
Haiku/Senryu, Nr.05 — Poet's Blood
I am right-handed
although in everything else
I am left-handed.
although in everything else
I am left-handed.
#identity
#TruthOfLife
#senryu
#SelfReflection
#karma
132 reads
11 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
14th Dec 2021 8:42pm
14th Dec 2021 8:42pm
Haiku/Senryu, Nr.04 — Week-End
Bottle of wine lasts
two days however I drink
red but she drinks white.
two days however I drink
red but she drinks white.
#marriage
#alcohol
#senryu
169 reads
9 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Nov 2021 10:48pm
16th Nov 2021 10:48pm
Villanelle Nr.20 — Age Divergence
We are ageing in different ways
and there are signs of a future time
when lights will dim in a strange maze
Barring sudden death, this phase
splits loved rhythms from known rhymes
as ageing takes on different ways
It’s hard to tell, predicting days
how long until a foreign bell will chime,
signalling lights dimmed in a strange maze
A theatre production plays
where actors dare not speak — they mime
the act of ageing in different ways
Yet constancy of spirit stays
oddly watching the feared...
and there are signs of a future time
when lights will dim in a strange maze
Barring sudden death, this phase
splits loved rhythms from known rhymes
as ageing takes on different ways
It’s hard to tell, predicting days
how long until a foreign bell will chime,
signalling lights dimmed in a strange maze
A theatre production plays
where actors dare not speak — they mime
the act of ageing in different ways
Yet constancy of spirit stays
oddly watching the feared...
#love
#wife
#husband
#aging
#SelfDiscovery
210 reads
12 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
16th Jun 2021 11:49pm
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.
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
200 reads
15 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th May 2021 3:42pm
10th May 2021 3:42pm
Villanelle Nr.19 — Woke
#politics
#PowerOfWords
#philosophical
321 reads
7 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
9th Apr 2021 10:30pm
9th Apr 2021 10:30pm
Villanelle Nr.18 — What Einstein Said
#rhyming
#TruthOfLife
#historical
398 reads
16 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Mar 2021 9:29am
23rd Mar 2021 9:29am
Terzanelle Nr.05 — The Job
#dreams
#LifeAsAWriter
#WritingPoetry #NaPoWriMo2021
#WritingPoetry #NaPoWriMo2021
376 reads
11 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Mar 2021 10:17pm
14th Mar 2021 10:17pm
Sixty Seconds of Spring
#inspirational
#flowers
#spring #uplifting
#spring #uplifting
426 reads
12 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Mar 2021 10:20pm
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.
lists people
who believe they did;
The Heroic Book of Failures
canonises people
who believe they didn’t.
#technology
#TruthOfLife
#historical #philosophical
#historical #philosophical
250 reads
14 Comments
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