The Warrior of Poetry: The Poetry archive
The Poetic Warrior Returns to his Poetry after Illness Welcome One, Welcome All
A short story for kids as Susie Swan saves the wood from General Snail…
This is about my father County Councillor John Wilson a native of Scale House Farm Galgate Lancaster who died in 1973 suddenly age 44 yrs wouldn’t mind it read out sometime sadly missed.
God preceded time, we invented divisions of time. As we evolved but we need not think of ourselves as clever, it is when one goes to sleep discovery is made being conscious in a troubled world is burdensome and extreme, we find peace somewhere else, some are yet to discover. Remember we are all transient beings much of our own invention and reinvention in a living world. No man is above another. We are driven, driven by primordial instinct. It is difficult to achieve but very easy to forget in a vortex of emotions.
In 1957, the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan told a Conservative rally in Bedford that the people of the UK had never had it so good. It may seem as though we are more distant than ever from the days of the post-war boom, just before the swinging sixties crashed into the seventies and on to the demolition of industry under Thatcher. For example, now more than 100,000 people have lost jobs due to the impact of the government’s response to the corona virus pandemic. Young people see dreams crushed due to failings in the exam system and the prospect of a no deal Brexit is written about in the pen of the doom-mongering journalists.
Yet, I will argue that, despite the tragic trail of the virus, we have, in fact, never had such a great opportunity to reflect, rebuild and restore this country as a centre for industry and to build a much fairer and more socialist state. We need the government to commit to a policy of buying British; supermarkets to be encouraged to invest in UK produce, which is guaranteed by stringent UK quality control. Our universities have shown magnificent flair in working towards finding a vaccine for the virus and distance learning opportunities have flourished. We need to invest further into research opportunities and technology. With technology comes all the requisite sub-industries and trades. Our young people are willing to work and need apprenticeships that lead to jobs. The care sector can flourish if its staff are paid better for the hard work they undertake. Yet this renaissance needs to be centrally controlled.
Now we have left the EU and learnt how unwise it is to have a country that depends so greatly on the service sector, we can repair the damage done over the past fifty years. In 1957, we may have had a flourishing economy, but it flourished largely because nationalised services and industries formed the backbone of the economy and led to a robust infrastructure. If we aim towards the instigation of a more socialist government with a policy for egalitarian investment and nationalisation then once again, we can have it good we can have it very good indeed.
Admiration for a smile note, it is fleeting and not understood. I hear a cry most of us are glum for it fits our time we have fewer lines on our faces, it helps us look good, when we are old. It helps the state knowing that they know we are doing the right thing. Meanwhile behind closed doors, depressions hit like multiple mallets to the mind. You look in the mirror but you are the same changeless person. As in yesterday and probably tomorrow a secret tide will return with happy faces riding the surf. Imagine that world coming toward you in refreshing cleansing alarm and sound, manic laughter from mouth to ears. Washing away doubt in a cool breeze, a tonic to the systems, now worn out under suppression from the evils of our time.
This is very difficult to write about just as much as people find it hard to talk about. Where are the mass of ambulances rushing up and down the streets of Britain carting people away with Covid 19, Equally how many people are openly discussing the virus in public. I would suggest the figures are being tampered, in such a short time has this developed into the daily broadcast as seen in Russia, North Korea and no I’m not going down conspiracy avenue too many make bad money from that line.
Think about this we have slowly sunk into a form of totalitarian state the Tories have borrowed from many sources, put this in a mixing bowl and come out with a disaster movie. Another product of this time , well this seems to have worked nicely. Yes COVID 19 exists but runs with comorbidity afflictions there are nearly seventy million humans in Britain and a politically blind electorate too stressed to challenge government, the elected bodies from converging electoral boundaries designed to seat to suit political parties, who by the way all work to rig outcomes in elections.
In essence the Tories are playing life and death with you through channels of fear the quickest being the rather dishonest highly controlled media in particular social media, designed to get everyone at each others throats better to go back to the direct challenges of the public meeting room and a show of hands and the people you may who hide behind the veil of social media may reveal themselves if they dare to attend. This government of Johnson and the unelected Cummings is the very worst in living history, call it that if you wish, they have no right to carp about true Socialism one that seeks and demands a fairer world for all.