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Lay Your Thick White Blanket on our Land

Lay your thick white blanket on our land

 

Cover up the corruption

The beggars scavenging for food

 

Lay your thick white blanket on our land

 

It freezes the lies in mid-air

Gives the children a smile

Freezes the parents’ tears

 

Let the thick white blanket stay on this earth

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Winter Scenepoverty

Christmas Card Poem 2020

You say the snow is a magical thing
Coming down from the heavens like magic
Before joining up together on the ground
And Father Christmas throws it all down
Just to complete the experience

Drifting your happiness across town
Whether by car or bus
In-between two places on Christmas Day
When another downpour
Leaves the pair of us laughing

Telling each other ironically
It could only ha...

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