Land of Hope and Fury

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Poem of the week

By Ewan

Tue, 11 Nov 2025
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13 comments
 

 

Reason is banished, 
talking, discussion, intercourse
- save one particular kind – unused.

We suffer a long division,
the exponent of our bile is ∞,
the intersection of our sets is null.

We SHOUT at each other
like two deaf people fighting
over an old Beatles record ...

One called All You Need Is Love,
though no-one believes that now
in this land of hope and fury.

We are all furious 
at our own dashed hopes,
we feel betrayed by politicians.

We forget that winning 
means others must lose,
or perhaps we no longer care.

Ours are not true hopes,
more ill-wishes for others,
yet we expect only good in return. 

We saw an open box
and closed the lid,
trapping the last good thing inside. 

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Comments

Submitted by Makis on

Ours are not true hopes, more ill-wishes for others. Well said sir!

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

Terminology looks fine, nice mathematics language, "We suffer a long division, the exponent of our bile is ∞, the intersection of our sets is null". Exhaustion, infinity, isolation.

The third stanza too, deaf people shouting at each other, I can imagine! But "We forget that winning means others must lose", is fortunately, not necessarily true.

 As a whole, a good story! Tom

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Reasoning, listenning, discussing banished, just shoot from the hip and shout is so prevalent, it seems. Rh

 

Submitted by Turlough on

There's money to be made selling baseball hats bearing the words 'Make me great again, though I always have been'.

Turlough

Submitted by Ewan on

 not very long ago, we were informed that MAGA really stands for Make Accordions Great Again

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Submitted by Turlough on

I was led to believe that it was something to do with a shortage of parmesan cheese over there and it stood for Make America Grate Again.

But we do need more accordions, and harmonicas.

Turlough

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Submitted by Di_Hard on

this comes at just the right time, with Trump attacking one of the diminishing sources of respect for the UK, I think. If BBC has to be more representative of Reform views, will be shutting the lid and burying the box deep in a hole

that's a brilliant photo

 

Submitted by Ewan on

 fake, I'm afraid, cobbled together from several images, as indicated in the summary.
Respecting the BBC, there is absolutely no excuse for what the Panorama team did in the editing suite. Trump doesn't need to be edited to sound foolish or deranged. The BBC is fighting a rearguard action as it is. A catastrophic own goal that doubtless filled the right wing with glee.

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Submitted by celticman on

we know what we know. I'm not sure what the next line is. we hate what we grate? 

 

Submitted by Ross_Lowe on

"Ours are not true hopes,
more ill-wishes for others,
yet we expect only good in return."

Yowzers. Right in the solar-plexus, that. Great stuff, Ewan.

 

Submitted by onemorething on

This is our Poem of the Week! Congratulations!

 

Submitted by Mark Say on

Captures the sour, angry and irrational mood that seems to be taking hold.