Skendong Poetry

writing. poetry. projecting clunky narratives.

[Skendong Poetry @_Skendong]

Ancoats To New Islington in Burnham's Manchester

This is a place in the east end of the city,
Where a mass of wealth grew from enslaved cotton.
First ever industrial suburb spread with no pity,
Ana Cots’ turned into a sprawling rotten slum.

#LABOURMPS
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Can you please speak up Prime Minister Sir Keir?

Oh, Labour, champions of the working class,
Tangled in a web of compromise, alas!
A pound shop Tory tribute act,
Selling your soul again & that’s fact 🙄

#LABOURMPS #poetry #writing
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[Skendong Poetry @_Skendong]

poems

poems
someone told me
are not written
but fester
in the mind
until spewed out
published

poems
are given away
so the poet
must learn
the craft
of letting go

poems
were present
before you
before me –
recited
by ancients
to public crowds

#poetry
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Transactional

The media call him Transactional.
Where I’m from they call it quid pro quo.

In Latin it means something for something.

Like I give my man a tenner,
He hands me a bud of green sticky blow.

You rarely get something for nothing 😔

#poetry
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@mehdirhasan And that I deem quite serious 😳

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“Civil war in Britain is inevitable?

Sonnet for a Silver Bullet -

Decades after my mother dragged me forth,
To cast her vote against the National Front.
Now flags of St George wave, proud and bold,
Yet hidden roots obscure the tales of old 🥸

#poetry

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@Bushra1Shaikh I would laugh, but there's nothing to laugh about 😳

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@cenkuygur Damn. A backlog of wheat, medicine and the black gold is going to take time to meander through the straits 😳

"Nothing is agreed until agreed."

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@Heccles94 But through his Tweet viewed 7 million times, he can incite the British folk 😳

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The old alliance cracks beneath its seals.
No “Sieg Heils,” but whispers break the walls.
The constitution leaks through secret deals,
How private wealth becomes the public pall.

#poetry
#poetrycommunity

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

When any white man in the world says "Give me liberty or give me death", the entire white world applauds

When a black man says exactly the same thing, word for word, he's a criminal & treated like one and everything possible is done to make an example of him —James Baldwin

[Bisan Owda @bisanowda01]

Fragile…

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Big up, Uncle Ian Wright for speaking up, and he's 100% correct.

Look how Qatar got dragged when they were hosting the World Cup.

[Skendong Poetry @_Skendong]

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Authentic Swan Bake?

Trump had said, in a place called Springfield,
That Haitian immigrants ate your cats and dogs.
Another nasty lie, a weapon wielded,
The same old ugly demagogic dialogues.
So, if he’ll lie about a carp or swan,
What isn’t just a calculated con?

#farage

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@5Pillarsuk We'll figure it all out in time. I have a dream.😃

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Trump and Netanyahu

Eretz Yisrael Hashlema
is what he pursued.
The policy he enacted
in full view of the world.

He slaughtered and inherited
the status of war criminal.
And he was greatly interested
in violence and expansion.

Who’s the fucking superpower here?

#poetry

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@JayinKyiv A rude rude person. Is he talking of himself? 🙄