What can laws do without morals? Benjamin Franklin.Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin	15

The “word laundry” is very busy now:
The  “non involved,”  the children “used as shields”
Creating euphemisms and bloody how!

Certain words we cannot yet allow
Tampax, blood and women who, paid,  yield
The word laundry is very busy now

With a tiger’s cruelty we’re endowed
You should have seen the  rows of ” disappeared”
We’re using euphemisms,it’s bloody you.

Relationships are more than  winning rows
We saw the soldiers lying in the fields
The word laundry is sadly busy now

The sheep and goats will give you bible’s clues
The politicians lied, contempt revealed
We’re using euphemisms and Oh,God, how

 

In our minds we keep some facts concealed
Yet self  deception greys our days unreal
Your “word laundry” is hyper-busy now:
Creating euphemisms like ” blood is dew.”

 

 I painted this then altered it with Artweaver software.Looks like a Xmas card 

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).  Poems.  1918.

https://www.bartleby.com/122/1000.html#3

3. The Habit of Perfection

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear. Shape nothing, lips; be lovely-dumb:         5 It is the shut, the curfew sent From there where all surrenders come Which only makes you eloquent. Be shellèd, eyes, with double dark And find the uncreated light:         10 This ruck and reel which you remark Coils, keeps, and teases simple sight. Palate, the hutch of tasty lust, Desire not to be rinsed with wine: The can must be so sweet, the crust         15 So fresh that come in fasts divine! Nostrils, your careless breath that spend Upon the stir and keep of pride, What relish shall the censers send Along the sanctuary side!         20 O feel-of-primrose hands, O feet That want the yield of plushy sward, But you shall walk the golden street And you unhouse and house the Lord. And, Poverty, be thou the bride         25 And now the marriage feast begun, And lily-coloured clothes provide Your spouse not laboured-at nor spun. See Notes.

Digital art by Katherine using Microsoft Paint

I hate the dark evenings
I hate  buying Xmas presents
I hate getting up in the dark
I hate winter
I hate heavy clothes
There’s nothing on TV tonight
Flu jabs make you ill
If you get a cold, it’s yout own fault
Cream cakes make you diabetic
All cake is bad for you
Why bake when you can buy cake?
Why cook a meal when  you are alone?
I can’t be bothered to invite anyone round
Everyone is selfish.Except me.

http://bostonreview.net/poetry-arts-culture/poetry-changed-world-elaine-scarry

Extract:

“Medieval poems helped to give rise to new civic institutions.

The Iliad is an epic ignited by the dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon, and we are more likely to associate dispute with epic poetry or with plays, as in the drama contests of fifth-century Greece. But many other genres of poetry have the debate structure built into them, as we can see by the word “anthem”—derived from “antiphone” or “verse response”—which surfaces in the translations. That an anthem, or hymn of praise, holds disputing voice within it reminds us that there is nothing anti-lyric about this deliberative structure.

Many styles of poetry bring us face to face with acts of deliberation. The eclogue is a dialogue poem about the act of choosing, as in Virgil’s Third and Seventh Eclogues when a judge is asked to choose between the arguments of two shepherds. The word “eclogue” is derived from eklegein, meaning, “to choose.”¹¹ Another example is the tenzone, in which two poets argue “in alternating couplets,” as Urban Holmes describes in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.¹² The tenzone eventually took on other forms, such as the partimen or jeu parti, in which one “poet proposes two hypothetical situations.” One of the positions is then defended by that poet and the other by a second poet, each speaking in three stanzas.¹³ And in his translation of Dante’s Vita Nuova, Mark Musa explains, “The Italian troubadours invented the sonnet form [of the tenzone], still a mode of debate in which the problem is set forth in a proposta inviting a risposta (using the same rhymes) from another poet.”¹⁴

While in the tenzone two distinct sonnets are placed in dispute, an oppositional mental act is also interior to the sonnet itself, particularly in the Petrarchan form with its division into an octave and a sestet. While the volta, or “turn of thought,” is most emphatic in the Petrarchan form, it is also recognizable in Spenserian and Shakespearean sonnets¹⁵