Love is often near us

Love must be so pliant ,
like a blade of grass,

Bowing to the wind,
till the storm has passed.

Love is enigmatic
Like the sphinx’s smile.

Waiting for an answer,
Nothing is on file.

Love is often near us
Yet we do not see.

Sometimes where we are
Is just the place to be

New mental illnesses.

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Art by Katherine

1,Passenger Rage Disorder

This is worse in aeroplanes especially when  they have left the ground.Someone gets upset  and no-one can get out.A few bottles are drunk and then used as weapons
Murder on the Orient Airline

In the worst cases.some passengers stay enraged for ever or  are tried for manslaughter

2.Omnibus psychosis  brought on by  hearing bus  stops or traffic lights speak to you when you are very tired and weary.

3.Brexit-phobia

You  keep passing out whenever you hear the words, Brexit ,foreigners, immigrants referendum,Michael Gove  or Boris.Even  the word cocaine might  bring on panic attacks

4.Hysterical blindness
Stopping an aircraft taking off by mistaking the exit chute door for a toilet door.BTW wait till the aircraft takes off so your wee will evaporate before it reaches the heads of the general public under your flight path

5,May Madness
Calling  for Elections night and day.Refusal to appear on TV when it is a job requirement

6. Paranoia and Fear  of foreigners caused by being cut off from your own Shadow which may be far worse than any European immigrant ever was.

7,Entitlement Psychosis caused by  reading P.P. E  at Oxford and writing essays   after using cocaine instead of tea.

I never knew that  modern bus stops speak

The bus stop says its out of use  this week
Men are digging up the road again
I never knew that  modern bus stops  speak

I wonder will the street lamps follow suit
Their  voices like  the chiming of Big Ben
The bus stop says its out of use  this week

Maybe I can find another route
Will railway stations stutter like shy men?
I never knew that  modern bus stops speak

How to travel ,hearing voices break
Pity and compassion   hit my pen
The bus stop says its out of use  this week

I fear my travel plans  have gone astray
The journey I am on will never end
Did you know that  modern bus stops speak?

From the dark grey sky the rain descends
Evolution staggers round the  bends
The bus stop says its out of use  this week
I never knew that  modern bus stops  speak

 

Poems for Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/18/poems-europe-10-national-portraits-ahead-of-european-elections

Extract:

Kosovo

Magazine Kosovo 2.0
Poet Shpëtim Selmani

On the first day blood was created
on the second day death
on the third love was mentioned
and then there were no days left for us