THINGS WE CONSIDER ESSENTIAL ~ BUT WE DONT REALLY NEED !
If you did not have a CAR
You could still WALK
If you did not have PHONE
You could still TALK
If you did not have a BATTER
Then the CRICKET would not matter
And you could still eat all your GREENS
Without a FORK !
You could have a great big TELLY
Without VISION
We could all live without CRIME
And without PRISON
Without DARK we*d just have LIGHT
Without LIGHT we*d just have NIGHT
An if we tried we could eat CAKES
That have not RISEN !
If we did not have CARTOONS
We*d all be FUNNY
And we*d probably be more EQUAL
Without MONEY
We could live without COMPUTERS
DICTATORS ~ PERSECUTORS
And our lives would still be SWEET
Without our HONEY !
But Im trying to make sure
No one FORGETS
That we really needed
MIGHTY SUFFRAGETTES*
If they did not raise their VOICES
Most of us would have no CHOICES
And I think that we*d have many
DEEP REGRETS !
Thanks for visiting ~ comments welcome ~ love A & B 🧡🧡🧡
In this POEM Benjamin is highlighting many things we consider
essential (cars ~ telephones ~ sports gear ~ TV) but in essence
we don*t really need. He also mentions People like DICTATORS
& PERSECUTORS who make our lives a misery ! But there are also
essential People REFORMERS like the SUFFRAGETTES who over 100
Years ago campaigned for *VOTES FOR WOMEN* in the UK and now
we have had two Female Prime Ministers. Benjamin is a very famous
UK Poet who speaks out against all forms of SOCIAL INJUSTICE !
He is a Performance Poet so his poetry has great RHYME & RHYTHM
The Rhyme Pattern in this Poem is interesting & consistent throughout
all four verses ! x a x a b b x a x indicates a non-rhyming line ~ and
a & b lines which rhyme. This is standard way to write Rhyme Patterns.
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Author:
ANGELA & BRIAN (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: May 22nd, 2019 01:23
- Category: Sociopolitical
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Comments5
A fine write B&A.
One of the best - great read A&B
Thanks UNCLE MICHAEL : Pleased you enjoyed it : BRIAN & I think BZ should be Poet Laureate ! He sure would shake up the Establishment ! He really has a *Way with Words* and we love the Rhythm & Rhyme pattern in this one it complements the SUBJECT : Now that is POETRY !
Blessing through Poetry
Yiours ANGELA & BRIAN 🧡🧡🧡🧡
If we did not have any ploughs, we could survive with the sweat of our brows.
Before we learnt to make the tools nature gave us all to survive. Tools took us on a different tragectory, and now we have become it slaves.
You have highlighted a strong poem
YES SURESH : A very strong Poem indeed ! BRIAN & I love BZ and hoped he would have become the NEW UK Poet Laureate ! We*ll have to wait another 10 years when He will just be in His Prime @ 71 ! The rot set in over 200 years ago with the Industrial Revolution and at the present rate by 2100 (I*ll be 117) most of PLANET EARTH will be uninhabitable and there really is NOWHERE ELSE (In the Solar System) to GO : OK ! BZ is a Vegan (we are NOT) but if we all were it would be a move in the right direction to reverse *Destruction of Planet Earth !* Thanks for a reasoned comment !
Blessings & Peace & Joy
Yours ANGELA & BRIAN 🧡🧡🧡🧡
Yes we could be happy with little more than the basics should we choose. A read full of truths dear duo
THANKS FAY ~ Yes BZ is a contraversial POET ~ Vegan ~ Anti-establishment & Royalty etc but he does have a Point in this POEM ~ Back to basics ~ but is it rational or possible ?
Blessings ~ Peace & Love
Yours ANGELA & BRIAN 🧡🧡🧡🧡
Some fine messages in your words. I would argue about the line
"Then the CRICKET would not matter"
Cricket does matter.
Thanks UNCLE ANDY ~ As a proud LANCASTRIAN I agree ! I think what BZ is saying without the right equipment you have to forgo the Pleasure & Leisure of Sport. When I was at Grammar School (1994 ~ 1999) a full set of Cricket Gear ~ Bats ~ Balls ~ Wickets ~ Pads ~ Boots ~ Whites ~ Screens ~ Scoreboard etc etc ~ could (even with a little help from the Parents !) cost the School several thousands of Pounds. Cricket has to be done properly (in a Grammar / Public School context) or NOT at all. TODAY ~ sadly ~ many Secondary Schools are opting for the latter !
Blessings & Peace & Love to YOU & JOYCE
Yours as always ANGELA & BRIAN
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