Terrorists and Perverts on every corner

                                 

Media Mirage

The Lost Video

Made in 2014, not uploaded until 2020*

*Being a few months ahead of myself with scheduling posts, by the time the end of 2014 came around, there was a terrorist style attack in Sydney, quickly followed by the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the video suddenly seemed out of date. There was truth to the fear. At least, a part of it.

It's still relevant, for the most part, though in different ways. However, it's over five years since it was made and you'd have to agree that the world has indeed changed. And not for the better. The Media however, still plays a large part in our interpretation of the world. And it's often over inflated. Bad news sells after all.


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Desecration - For the Christchurch Victims

 

Poem for the Christchurch Victims

                     

Desecration

There’s a madness

In the barrel bottom

Dross left behind

A stinking mislaid residue

Of what was once good.

It’s volume tiny

Yet septic

Enough to stain

                       

Permanently through malignity

Despite its ultimate insignificance

Spawning

Not a tragedy

But a calculated depravity.

Delicate souls

Merely seeking solace

From everyday woes  

And the types of him

Sanctuary not enough

To protect from the ideologies

Of the wanton blind.

We empathise

With their suffering

But cannot share it

And hope that we never have to

That hope that was theirs,

Stolen

That most brutal theft

Never to be retrieved.

The Horror in Paris - (warning disturbing images)

The Enemy Here

 

THE WEST    

Has grown soft, complacent

Allowing the lunatics to take over the asylum

And spill out onto the streets

Failure to protect

Self-inflicted infection.

Good intentions have revealed our vulnerability

Wish fulfillment of a just society

‘Our unimpaired body’

Have allowed sores to weep

To spread its pus across unblemished skin.

Watch the rhetoric flow

As thick as last time

Promises as inert as another inquest

See you next hubbub.

I make no apologies for the images nor the poem. Candle vigils aren't going to save us.
It's time to get angry. It's time to get tough.

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The Bloody Unified

We are Not Anonymous
We are not Veiled
Nor hide behind Fake profiles
And Obscure accounts.

We are Here
We are Not Afraid
We are Unequivocal
In our Propriety
And you will not Dissuade us.

We will continue to Embrace
Those Divergent from us
No matter the Hate
You direct towards us
Nor the Ignorance
You wish to stir up.

We will never Abandon
Our right to Transparent speech
Our right to Embrace
The religion of our Choice
or to remain non-believers.


We believe in the Individual
and Community
We believe in Respect
And Empathy
Not resentment
And destruction.

We are Tenacious
We are Unified
We, the Immutable Collective
Bloody, but Resolute.

..and let's not forget the Muslim worker who saved people inside the Jewish Supermarket.
A remarkable act of bravery and a real fuck you to those who would see division.

I wasn't planning this on being my first post of the year, but felt compelled.

Happy 2015

I hope that something special happens in your life this year and that overall, 

despite the down moments, it's generally positive. So many horrible things have already

taken place and it makes me anxious. Let's hope and work towards better things for all.

A reminder that I save my work for submissions, 

but always aim to bring you good work, whether poem, video poem or article. 

If you do like a particular piece, please share. Without you I'm nothing.

See you soon.

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Stories.