wonkness test

Cherry

By celticman

Sun, 20 Jul 2025
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Mussolini, Mein Kampf and our British Empire’s ideology

Our struggle, not only on land and sea

Our struggle to define ‘we’

Was never wonk work

English roses married to pakis and wogs

Were forever not ‘we’

Men married to slant-eyed chinkies

People born abroad with funny foreign accents

We have to treat with fairness and English civility

The braying and praying Northern Irish for example

Out-love our love for our Royal family

Irish Catholics and others like Jews and Muslims per se

Toxic mixtures of traitorous loyalty

Hybrid-names need not be always obscene

Saxon-Coburg in 1917

Culled from the Doomsday book

Our Kings and Queens

The epitome of wisdom and Windsorness

Our Defence of the Realm Act

Gathered a motley crew

Rooted out suspicious fathers and sons

Radical man-hating lesbians

Mothers that cooked foreign muck

None in Mrs Beeton’s 900 page, recipes book

Repatriated to internment camps

Kept imprisoned with criminals and prostitutes

Taught to know thine place

Is not ‘we,’ the superior race

Our British fighting line shifts and extends

Until you become our friend

Choose ‘we’ and be part of our glorious history

Know your place

Because to be human is a race

‘We’ leave behind nought but an empty space.  

 

Certificate 12
Poem
Philosophy

Comments

Submitted by Turlough on

I think all of that applies to me. I've never felt part of we or even them. Just a simple him.

Makes you think though. Your poem really makes you think.

From the point of view of an Unorthodox Irish Catholic Bulgarian Orthodox (lapsed, all lapsed).

Turlough

Submitted by celticman on

we're all lapsed Turlough. Thank God. 

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Or the lack of him.

Turlough

Submitted by David Kirtley on

There is a lot to think about in this poem, so naturally it isn't the kind of poem I can easily understand, or adequately review. But it will certainly get me thinking a lot, particularly about British History, British identity and the History of the World, and history repeating itself! As always you have many great lines in  there. I will reread, probably many times, which is good!

 

Submitted by celticman on

thanks David you make me seem smarter than I think I am. 

 

Submitted by marandina on

Made me think of a song by Stiff Little Fingers called 'White Noise'. Those prophetic last couple of lines sums things up neatly. Nicely done, CM.

 

Submitted by celticman on

stiff little fingers. Not heard about them for years. wow. thanks marandina.