Tag: hunger

• Black47back

  Potatoes blight-smothered Bright uniformed enforcers Turfing out sunken Mothers Brother killing brother Proddie oaths uttered Eating weeds stifling hunger Brits living it up Legs up at the Ritz Taigs taking the sip Of traitor’s soup Trains of troopers Trained for rural evictions Such scenes lately fixtures Long fissures, spuds dead in lazy beds Country is…

  alchemisland

  11th Aug 2024

  Uncategorized

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• The Halt of Hunger

  Mist with dawn snaked Filling lanes like molten gold In roaring through blacksmith’s mold Web-hung shack of dirty stone, ivy-draped and shadow throne’d. Abound hunger Fallow fields festered farmers found fetid Spuds spoiling thousands and nothing yielded They raked.

  alchemisland

  8th Jan 2024

  Filí my pockets

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