Some responses to this week's riots in England:

fire in London
can’t put it out
with Potomac water

© David Caruso

Trouble erupts in English cities
David began writing haiku and tanka after taking a course in Buddhist poetry of Japan under the late Professor William LaFleur. He invites you to browse on over to DavidHaiku.com

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And here's a couple we 'looted' from amongst our followers:



Chris Lawrence lives with his muse in West Kirby and writes, having been published in many journals internationally and can be found on twitter @clawfish.

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And, for a different flavour, Anna's poem was already on her blog, and longer than our maximum so we couldn't accept it, but here's an excerpt:
How easy
They succumb to stereotype,
The looters, the arsonists,
The bigot's fodder;
The bigots dream gifted,
Gifted by the very underclass
They wish to further
Marginalise.
Read the whole poem here: What is this?

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And this from Twitterer Arron Shilling

"Time is short now
the hoods are glowing white
dark moods blind the rats
and glass coppers shield the streets."


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Related posts
See also: Harvest Time and Dudley Road by Jane James and The morning after by Clare Kirwan

smoke encroaches the sky
men gather
unarmed
by the barricades
gunfire rattles
a chattering fear,
they move in groups
seem aimless powerless
what to do
to call , to chant
to pray,
to unify,
and hope together
will survive
tank wheels
closer now,
fear a sharpened
swordswinging ever closer
do you hide
inside,
or call and shout
defiance.

© Chris Lawrence


Syrian Army Extends Hama Assault as 140 Die
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Chris Lawrence lives with his muse in West Kirby and writes, having been published in many journals internationally and can be found on twitter @clawfish.

Assad has a nation
that has joined the Arab
spring,
people gather and protest
unarmed and fearless,
yet face paramilitary police,
he is afraid,
fear a key to his power,
and will not yield,
by shooting his people,
their deaths caught
on shaky mobile phone
footage,
a social history
of atrocity,
is it unnoticed,
no western intervention,
history has woven a
political web,
and no one is willing
to be the fly.

© Chris Lawrence

32 killed in Syria protests, Damascus moves: activists
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Chris Lawrence lives with his muse in West Kirby and writes, having been published in many journals internationally and can be found on twitter @clawfish.

It is a media necrosis
no real news
supporting the ailing
bulky mass,
vessels cauterised,
head and mind
vague,
last issue been and
gone,
they support nothing,
all that was,
was their creation
they gave us a need
for celebrity and sex,
gullible we drank it up,
wanting more
stories garish even perverse
to feed our addiction,
they spread the word,
viral parasitic forms
collated stories,
by any means,
with powers and no
probable cause,
a dictatorship would be
proud,
they monitored and probed
delving deeper
than the taxman,
now as we become shocked,
as if dawning to our
misgivings,
we bay for blood
and call for this
ailing media to be
assisted in it's
end.

© Chris Lawrence

Phone hacking: spreading scandal, mounting questions
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Chris Lawrence lives with his muse in West Kirby and writes, having been published in many journals internationally and can be found on twitter @clawfish.
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