Category: TWTWTW
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TWTWTW CHALLENGE: Trump’s Parade
Topical poems on a chosen theme reflecting events in the last week… The Kommandant chooses a theme and challenges a poet to respond then both poems are published.HERE THE LATEST.. TWTWTW: THE BIG PARADE Dateline: Saturday 14th June 2025.The US army celebrates 250 years of, well, being an army.The Mardy-Arse-in-Chief also celebrates his 79th birthday,…
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GRETA THUNBERG: A poem by Anthony Owen
TWTWTW : Topical Poems classed as That Was The Week That Was GRETA THUNBERG If only you were a rock starshouting free PalestineCrowd-surfing a flotilla of handsbut you never showed us your fleshWhen you wept for unfashionable fleshAnd you look autistic how dare you You stole their dreams. Antony Owen https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/8/who-is-madleen-the-woman-for-whom-the-aid-ship-approaching-gaza-is-named
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DEFENCE: Poem by Neil Fulwood
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/8/who-is-madleen-the-woman-for-whom-the-aid-ship-approaching-gaza-is-named
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Dead Centre – Poem by Shaun Belcher
Shaun Belcher DEAD CENTRE If England was a target and you were looking at cross hairsIn the centre of the cross hairs would probably be DidcotThe most normal town in England according to the pollstersThe 11th worst place to live according to crap towns My home town, the town my family still live in, die inA…
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Island of Strangers – Poem Neil Fulwood
Neil Fulwood waxes topical… Talk to her: the woman who applies the gauzeand talks you through the aftercare. Talk to him: the man selling newspapersfrom the old-fashioned stall. The one whose identity’s a mysteryto you? Talk to them. Go ahead. Just smile and be open and say hello.Mention the weather and wish them well. That’s…