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  1. @tanweerdar

    The English have an #unwavering faith
    In their exceptionalism, at a time
    When their empire crumbles away
    & only its blood dust remains. The
    Old guard remains staunchly racist
    With that ingrained
    Hatred of all people who are the wrong
    Colour. They fall over each
    Other & onto their knees at the
    Prospect of a new coronation. Such
    Inflated importance, when all they are,
    The royals included, little limited
    People with no skills, no languages,
    & no compassion.
    #MastoPrompt #Poetry

  2. @tanweerdar

    The English have an #unwavering faith
    In their exceptionalism, at a time
    When their empire crumbles away
    & only its blood dust remains. The
    Old guard remains staunchly racist
    With that ingrained
    Hatred of all people who are the wrong
    Colour. They fall over each
    Other & onto their knees at the
    Prospect of a new coronation. Such
    Inflated importance, when all they are,
    The royals included, little limited
    People with no skills, no languages,
    & no compassion.
    #MastoPrompt #Poetry

  3. @tanweerdar

    The English have an #unwavering faith
    In their exceptionalism, at a time
    When their empire crumbles away
    & only its blood dust remains. The
    Old guard remains staunchly racist
    With that ingrained
    Hatred of all people who are the wrong
    Colour. They fall over each
    Other & onto their knees at the
    Prospect of a new coronation. Such
    Inflated importance, when all they are,
    The royals included, little limited
    People with no skills, no languages,
    & no compassion.
    #MastoPrompt #Poetry

  4. @[email protected]

    The English have an faith
    In their exceptionalism, at a time
    When their empire crumbles away
    & only its blood dust remains. The
    Old guard remains staunchly racist
    With that ingrained
    Hatred of all people who are the wrong
    Colour. They fall over each
    Other & onto their knees at the
    Prospect of a new coronation. Such
    Inflated importance, when all they are,
    The royals included, little limited
    People with no skills, no languages,
    & no compassion.

  5. @tanweerdar

    The English have an #unwavering faith
    In their exceptionalism, at a time
    When their empire crumbles away
    & only its blood dust remains. The
    Old guard remains staunchly racist
    With that ingrained
    Hatred of all people who are the wrong
    Colour. They fall over each
    Other & onto their knees at the
    Prospect of a new coronation. Such
    Inflated importance, when all they are,
    The royals included, little limited
    People with no skills, no languages,
    & no compassion.
    #MastoPrompt #Poetry

  6. @tanweerdar

    You would almost believe
    It were still summer, the
    Sun fierce in an azure sky,
    And the olives swelling on
    The single tree in the
    English garden, the birds
    Singing gentle songs.

    Here, he wishes time would
    Become suddenly rigid,
    Seconds frozen, a forever
    Day that never went the way
    Of all other days.

    #MastoPrompt #Rigid #Poetry #SmallPoems #Summer #Autumn #Time

  7. @tanweerdar

    We had a hollow time of it,
    The #ringing of the plague bells
    Up & down every street
    Of every town & village,
    The cathedral cities silent in the rain.

    We had a bloodied time of it,
    Secure in the dungeons &
    Torture the crown reserves
    For those who speak their
    Minds openly next to
    The eventual scaffold
    While the ravens sing.

    We had a deadly time of it,
    Under the blade,
    While the country, headless
    In its lunacy, watched us
    Executed in the name of
    Peace.

    #MastoPrompt #Poetry

  8. @tanweerdar

    They scatter their bodies across
    Our table overnight for us to
    Find in the morning.

    At least at this time of the year
    Most of their life is spent in the
    Light.

    This morning we found out that
    They’re fungus gnats, born from
    The soil of house plants.

    We moved the biggest pots into
    The garden then, so that they
    Wouldn’t have us for breakfast.

    #MastoPrompt #Scatter #Poetry

  9. @tanweerdar

    Raab.
    Elizabeth - Truss and Queen.
    Pride before the fall.
    Endless wealth
    Running through families and
    Crowns, while millions,
    Under the yoke,
    Struggle to
    Stay alive.
    In the palaces and corridors
    Of power
    No-one cares about
    Suffering.

    #MastoPrompt #Repercussions #Poetry

  10. @tanweerdar

    In the self-proclaimed upper
    Echelons of beauty, feelings
    Are way down the list of
    Important things to take
    Care of.

    There are bigger
    Beasts to tame;
    Socials,
    Parties,
    Networks,
    Cameras,
    The right angle,
    The good side,
    The bank account,
    The practised sneer

    Reserved for
    The little ugly people
    Trying to be beautiful
    With no chance ever
    Of being so.

    Skin is thin and
    Ugliness shows through
    Those twisted minds
    At the top of their
    Imaginary ladders.

    #MastoPrompt #Poetry #Echelon

  11. @tanweerdar

    No room, no chapel,
    No stair, no well,
    No outside, no in,
    No up, no down,
    No side, no roof,
    No door, no gate,
    No decoration,
    No jewels,
    No gold,
    No prayers,
    No curses,
    No blasphemy,
    No damnation.

    Fog.
    The obscure.
    Everything we imagine.
    This is an illusory.

    #MastoPrompt #Illusory #Poetry

  12. @tanweerdar

    No room, no chapel,
    No stair, no well,
    No outside, no in,
    No up, no down,
    No side, no roof,
    No door, no gate,
    No decoration,
    No jewels,
    No gold,
    No prayers,
    No curses,
    No blasphemy,
    No damnation.

    Fog.
    The obscure.
    Everything we imagine.
    This is an illusory.

    #MastoPrompt #Illusory #Poetry

  13. @tanweerdar

    No room, no chapel,
    No stair, no well,
    No outside, no in,
    No up, no down,
    No side, no roof,
    No door, no gate,
    No decoration,
    No jewels,
    No gold,
    No prayers,
    No curses,
    No blasphemy,
    No damnation.

    Fog.
    The obscure.
    Everything we imagine.
    This is an illusory.

    #MastoPrompt #Illusory #Poetry

  14. @[email protected]

    No room, no chapel,
    No stair, no well,
    No outside, no in,
    No up, no down,
    No side, no roof,
    No door, no gate,
    No decoration,
    No jewels,
    No gold,
    No prayers,
    No curses,
    No blasphemy,
    No damnation.

    Fog.
    The obscure.
    Everything we imagine.
    This is an illusory.

  15. @tanweerdar

    No room, no chapel,
    No stair, no well,
    No outside, no in,
    No up, no down,
    No side, no roof,
    No door, no gate,
    No decoration,
    No jewels,
    No gold,
    No prayers,
    No curses,
    No blasphemy,
    No damnation.

    Fog.
    The obscure.
    Everything we imagine.
    This is an illusory.

    #MastoPrompt #Illusory #Poetry

  16. @tanweerdar
    The truth is I have no
    #Paternal or parental bone in
    My body. My parenting skills
    Are imperfect, inadequate, &
    Made up on the fly. I don’t need
    An invented commercial day to
    Celebrate how hard we work to
    Make this family function as
    Well as it can. All we want
    Is for all the others to be happy.
    Sometimes it works, & often
    It doesn’t & hurts instead.
    What I really want is to be a
    Person who cares, not a parent
    Put into some compartment that
    Says old & tired & past it.
    #MastoPrompt

  17. @tanweerdar

    The smallness of death,
    The insignificance of turning
    The corner one day, full of life,
    And then, nothing, just an ending.

    The unexpected resonates
    In our chest cavity to create
    The fear,
    The fears, for we have many;
    Of age, of hurt, of a different pain,
    Of death, and, worst,
    Of meaning nothing.

    #MastoPrompt #Resonate #Poetry #SmallStories #Death

  18. @tanweerdar

    The smallness of death,
    The insignificance of turning
    The corner one day, full of life,
    And then, nothing, just an ending.

    The unexpected resonates
    In our chest cavity to create
    The fear,
    The fears, for we have many;
    Of age, of hurt, of a different pain,
    Of death, and, worst,
    Of meaning nothing.

    #MastoPrompt #Resonate #Poetry #SmallStories #Death

  19. @tanweerdar

    Those icons on their self-built
    Pedestals, those corrupt
    Visceralities who spread
    Lies as fact, do not

    #Wrestle

    With their conscience, for
    They have none.

    We might think

    They have no self-awareness,
    When the fact is that they do, for
    Without it, this edifice of untruths
    Could not have been made.

    And those who consent to their
    Power, those who cast their ballots
    In favour of these liars are
    Complicit in this abuse.

    Abandon this illusion
    Of justice.

    #MastoPrompt #Poetry

  20. This is old forest land.
    There is no forest here any longer.
    On the scars that are roads
    All things blur at speed.
    In the houses that were hollows
    On the hills between nature’s majesties
    Life is hollow, white plaster echoes
    Where greenery was, and Goethe’s
    Summits of oak and ash and fir.

    This is not even the #semblance
    Of a wood, not one hundred acres,
    Not one acre, not one square inch,
    Between the bungalows of pride
    And their paved drives and flooding
    Days.

    #MastoPrompt #Poetry

  21. @tanweerdar

    My moods are pliable,
    My body suggestible,
    The weather and other people
    Drivers of my emotions,
    The tension in my gut,
    Those wild words in my head
    And out of my mouth
    When I can be bothered
    To open it.

    #MastoPrompt #Disposition #Poetry

  22. @tanweerdar

    He keeps himself self-contained,
    Even with that wide smile when
    He’s working the bar or the tables,
    And stays inscrutable to anyone
    Watching the flash of his fast hands,
    His teeth, his gliding across the
    Floor as if he were floating, allows
    Himself just brief rests when it
    Becomes too much to be constantly
    In motion. But talk of family – his
    Blood, his people in this space –
    And the smile becomes a sparkle,
    His words that of the loving mystic.

    #MastoPrompt #Poetry #Contain

  23. @tanweerdar

    plead
    another word for beg
    on our knees
    submissive
    last resort
    negation of self
    of no value
    sacrifice
    no self-esteem
    grovelling
    covered in the shit
    of living dominated
    no free will
    lost
    chained
    prisoner
    attachment anxiety
    clutching at straws
    scrabbling in the mud
    detritus
    monsters
    rejects
    dismissed
    deserted

    #MastoPrompt #Plead #Poetry #SmallPoems

  24. @tanweerdar

    The only vocabulary which is limited
    is the one imposed on us by convention.
    Writers have endless words at their
    disposal. It is our task, after all, to tell
    the stories no-one has thought of
    before, in a language no-one has
    invented before. And to tell the
    stories that have been lived in such
    away that they live forever. That’s
    what writers do.

    #MastoPrompt #Vocabulary #Invented #Poetry