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#UKIsolatepoem 73

This is a book-length poem Whale Nation by Heathcote Williams. The film is well worth watching: beauty, wonder, horror, unforgettable

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Extract from Whale Nation by Heathcote Williams

From space, the planet is blue.
From space, the planet is the territory
Not of humans, but of the whale.
Blue seas cover seven-tenths of the of the earth’s surface,
And are the domain of the largest brain ever created,

2/?
With a fifty-million-year-old smile.
Ancient, unknown mammals left the land
In search of food or sanctuary,
And walked into the water.
Their arms and hands changed into water-wings;
Their tails turned into boomerang-shaped tail-flukes,

3/?
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#UKIsolatepoem 56

The article below by Arundhati Roy is not a poem but I include it in this series of poems I am tweeting daily during the lockdown, because it is the best piece of prose I have read on the pandemic.

It covers India, also the US, also global issues

Do read...
#UKIsolatepoem 57

English Girl Eats Her First Mango by John Agard

If I did tell she

hold this gold

of sundizzy

tonguelicking juicy

mouthwater flow

ripe with love

from the tropics

she woulda tell me

trust you to be

melodramatic

so I just say

taste this mango
1/?
and I watch she hold

the smooth cheeks

of the mango

blushing yellow

and a glow

rush to she own cheeks

and she ask me

what do I know

just bite into it?

and I was tempted

to tell she

why not be a devil

and eat of the skin

of the original sin

2/?
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#UKIsolatepoem 43

This poem was written during the lockdown by Sarah Woolf Image
The Cycle of Life

Now we are stilled what has become of the rhythm of our lives?
Once dictated by the time on the clock,
A meeting, celebrity programme,
The catching of a train.
What now marks the passing of our week?
Thursday clapping, the weekly shop,

2/?
Friday candles, Wednesday quiche, another Sunday roast.
How do we notice the day going by?
A daily walk
The 5 o clock briefing
Or the gently shifting arc of the sun...

Now we are stilled what are we learning of the cycle of life?
The loss of our loved one,

3/?
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#UKIsolatepoem 29

ZOOM! by Simon Armitage

It begins as a house, an end terrace
in this case
but it will not stop there. Soon it is
an avenue
which cambers arrogantly past the Mechanics' Institute,
turns left
at the main road without even looking

1/?
and quickly it is
a town with all four major clearing banks,
a daily paper
and a football team pushing for promotion.

On it goes, oblivious of the Planning Acts,
the green belts,
and before we know it it is out of our hands:
city, nation,

2/?
hemisphere, universe, hammering out in all directions
until suddenly,
mercifully, it is drawn aside through the eye
of a black hole
and bulleted into a neighbouring galaxy, emerging
smaller and smoother
than a billiard ball but weighing more than Saturn.

3/?
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