Just for All by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poem"] Evolved creation is not bad,but human nature turns it so;this spinning sphere of influencemust bear that burden, beings, soat Easter, festivals of faiths,we celebrate how life could be. ‘Bad world, good Friday’ blames wrong lot,for planet but amoral...

Arms Trade by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poem"] An iron fist or brolly dome,both folly for democracywhen folk are bound by tribal chains,identity, roots, family;fig trees, father’s olive groveare axed, sap drip as martyrs’ blood. Believing your own nonsense talk -that self-delusion gladly walkswith assumed allies...

This Land is Thy Land by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poem"] A piece of land in stewardship,for, as the sea, in nature’s hand,on loan until the Jubilee,when all returned to commonweal. But that law had a shorter span,uncomfortable, profits concerned;but Balfour claimed diplomacy,a promised land he did not own....

Homily by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poem"] The voice of the masses maybeless gathered crowds, as feasts of church;a eucharistic homily,outspoken words, reflecting Word,a papal proclamation, thatthe way of peace, through justice found. Tradition of the Nazarene,the spirit of protests, Holy known,by shaking hand in...

New Shelves by Stephen Kingsnorth

[tabby title="Poem"] Another year, but what is new?A number added, even sonot odd that past ran out of time.Unchanged the months preceding last,behaviour “’fore the saviour’s birth”,another lore in lawless world,I think not bare, unwritten, markedthose 365blank pages claimed.There is...