Ostpolitik
We have to talk with Germany
because, ever there ; and, Russia..
The known bombing of Coventry
a mistake, but target fogging
switched off, to protect Enigma.
The Luftwaffe, easy beaming.
Coventry, a Lusitania ?
Later, Dresden, The Lancaster.
Not The Kingdom of Saxony.
Or, did a girl take the night off ?
Denuded (MK2)
A gridding, with no crumb centre
no more than a traffic island,
the avian wheeling over
the triumphal avenue bland
as we thirst for holy water,
turn away from the marching band.
I want to go to a bandstand,
and enjoy the day as she planned.
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Is the terza rima well known ?
More than one explosion, all blown.
February 16th
Stargate February 23rd
The tree bare made a bigger sky.
February War Ditty
after Macneice
Prussia mort, all is forgiven !
Russia, bled, the fed aggressor
and we need to become driven
or, one might say, made of iron
like the Chancellor, or Thatcher
who might fill Putin with terror.
This is no time for an error.
Someone will not be forgiven.
February 19th/ March 4th
Triplet For Trump
for The London Times
Zelenskyy was our thin red line
to protect us from Die Ivan,
the terror of Pomerania.
( No way, to abandon Ramstein ).
February 20th
The Idiot Boris
The stupidest thing you said ?
Gobbed you were anti-busyness
while going into the red.
You look good wearing a black fez.
Net immigration to zero ?
yet you tried to play the hero.
February 23rd
Over Breakfast Quatrains
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
cast a shadow over the fact
London, the balance of power
not a mere missile flyover.
For Germany, The British Zone
forever part of Albion.
The huge danger in Trumpism
is Putin triumphalism,
a victory arch in Kyiv
after many a be-flagged grave.
The young women are in tears
at a desolation of years.
February 23rd
'America First'
What is driving Trump ? Nuclear
warring fear over Alaska ?
Divisions in Bavaria ?
I have seen the Tanks encampment
gone en route to Bohemia ;
heard The Voice of America.
The Fall of Ukraine a moment
of more danger of entrapment
were this the SHAEF predicament.
NATO is supra-national :
a departure, Congressional...
VAR founded Feb 1st 1942; Cold War
February 24th/ last couplets March 4th
The Big Picture
for Colonel Guy Long Shaef Nato NRW
To view : North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, from SHAEF.
Trump is bound by wartime Treaty ;
not by a Washington leafy
and an arching Christian faith.
We voyaged with God on our side
to enter the Normandy tide,
and sandy waters gone blood-red
to rake every chicken-shed,
in Operation Overlord
to put the devil to the sword,
some having to pull a ripcord.
Colonel Guy Long bought for Thatcher
to stop Russia going too far.
I met him, with Joan, for a lunch
at a Base, heard The Antwerp scrunch.
Silenzio...coal, Polish, J
Diagnostic for The BAOR
Need a Christian Germany
not one ruined, multi-culti
of The CDU and AFD
from mutter Angela Merkel
and The British Army Colonel
to keep on avoiding trouble.
February 24th/ March 6th
Unam Apostolicam Ecclesiam
Dignus, et aptus decorum
pro le ferus : Catholicam.
Agnus Dei, dona pacem.
( I am referring to The Lamb
who, as of Christ, became sanctam ).
Ferus, as in feral, their jam.
February 25th
On July 15th 1965
For our Queen : 'A Mounted Parade
of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers
Achmer Heath, Osnabruck '.
Glorious the Liberation !
Ready, The Soviet Union
who, tanked up, thought they had it made.
Our Sloane officers were chancers,
or tumbler in the rugger ruck.
Large print by James Haworth, London.
Feb 25th/ March 7th
America Degenerate
A Sonnet for Vance
Many have to be awoken !
Tough, your Christians In Action
have to arrest each Kardashian :
they are an abomination.
Vast American obesity,
a taxable obscenity.
What do they think in New England ?
Of pornography to be banned,
a hand-held weakening the mind.
Return to the lap-top, to bind !
David Lynch, Film, thought a smartphone
a mutation for the alone.
What of a going Latino
made America fight solo ?
February 26th/ March 7th
Germanic Tribes
Roemer - N.R.W. de facto :
The Romans wanted, on the right
of The Rhine, as far as the Elbe
for The Roman Empire. Advanced
along the Lippe, and the Hellweg.
Had an overwhelming defeat :
Publius Varus, 9 AD
at Kalkriese in the Wiehen Hills.
Roman rule ended on the right
bank of The Rhine, for Tiberius.
Four Legions remained NRW.
Cologne, then, a Colonia.
From 400 AD onwards
Legions left The Rhine Provinces.
In 460 AD, Cologne
conquered by The Franks ; Trier
was altered by 475.
The Porta Nigra did survive.
A Roman road network, active.
February 26th
The Worst Mistake dawn triplets
Parading despicable parents :
a casting you have no breeding.
I heard the morning bell for Lauds
and did not crawl idiot boards.
Everyone must tighten the taps
during a protracted collapse,
obliteration on the maps.
Men will fall in the poacher traps
without an animal feeding.
Nobody is out there speeding.
The lucky are breathing, reading.
Shortening The Lines
for Sir Andrew Motion
All those terrible Fourteeners
rhyme with the clapped-out Cortinas
and The Armitage meanders.
You wrote of The Pleasure Steamers
and grief, in 1978
in a line Italianate
and wan Essex beyond the gate ;
my mother also had a fate.
Desperate, loathed the second-rate.
February 28th/ March 11th
The Apostate
for Sadiq Khan
There is a Baronial Right
of Challenge, over Heresy
even referring a Monarchy.
The atonement, without a fight :
Cathedral Creed ceremony
which can redeem all from the night.
Line variants for Sarah :
L5 Abbey Credo L6 save you
February 28th at St Johns Cafe
The New Deals : 1933
Chaotic Capitalism
in America ( to Nazism )
did make room for Communism.
Kicking a can down the road
the plight of many : no abode.
Or gaping, staring like a toad.
Ultimately, they to rearm
and escape economic harm,
a crash of the Banking system.
Lenin soiled the bed linen.
Gratitude, or
Holding Operation
America should be grateful
Ukraine did not fold, unhopeful
in the first Russian invasion,
tanks running down the citizen.
Without any boots on the ground
any guarantee is unsound.
What of Vietnam ? Air cover
not enough, war be won, over.
America still part of NATO :
unable to get up and go.
The attractive mineral mine,
open, is free to be stolen.
The Red Special Operation
broke The Geneva Convention.
The Dreadnought Class for Rachel
Costs of UK Submarine Fleet
( now forty per cent of budget )
to be fingered to The Sinking
Fund, in the basement lurking
of The Bank of England, smelly
since from The Eighteen the Century !
You can add up without blinking.
( No gin, in the Wardroom drinking ! ).
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What on earth have you been thinking ?
for Plymouth, to go down a treat.
Rachel has a perfect satchel
and likes a sandwich in Greenwich.
The Fund grew for the Capital
Ships, of The Navy, lost, no winch.
( AI does the grand bamboozle ).
Adding up must be a puzzle.
March 1st/11th
Sermon Redact From Koran
The line worthy of parody.
A Palestinian Christian
sat congregant. I quoted to her
after : her smile, out of heaven.
cf terrorist incident at St. Dom's
At St. Mary's Again
Stayed long as was decently
possible, in the sun arbour,
to encounter the remainder
leaving, the first Sunday of spring.
'Wartime Britain 1917'
Of course, there was no radio :
thus, on The War no front window.
March 2nd
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