Smile,
hold out your
kindness
with generosity.
We can all go down
together.
Or
become a raft
big enough
to float.
-By Gini
Yuletide Poem Ten
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Yuletide Poem Nine
Have another.
Feed.
Have another.
Feed.
Have another.
Feed.
Have another
Feed.
Have another.
Feed.
Have another.
Feed.
Have another.
Feed.
Have another.
Feed.
Have another.
Feed.
Have another
Feed.
Have another.
Feed.
Have another.
Feed.
Before you go
back
out.
-By Gini
Yuletide Poem Eight
The dark night of the solstice
comes around, brings around
it’s own brand of need.
Tis the season for charity,
the season to shelve suspicion
in favour of the pity-eyed
offers of assistance; money
swelling the salving coffers as
normal gears up for the fleeting
season of goodwill, of kindness
and uncommon generosity.
-By Gini
Yuletide Poem Seven
Surely you’re not complaining,
again.
It’s only one step.
It’s only one joke.
It’s only this once.
You don’t mind do you. Being
left out.
It’s only one meal
It’s only one joke.
It’s only this once.
It is only ever once.
Ever.
Surely you’re not complaining
again.
-By Gini
Yuletide Poem Six
I can only be who I am
and who I am is incompatible
enough with who you think
I should be that the one
way ticket sits whispering
on my shoulder even while
I argue for the right
to a dignified life.
Don’t push me.
I’m not sick.
I’m not ill. Just
someone
you never
made room for…
-By Gini
Yuletide Poem Five
The battle for equality plays out daily,
the right to be on the street, the right to enter
shops, restaurants and cinemas. The right to roam
for the price of a pair of shoes and a square meal.
Batteries, two, at two hundred and fifty quid
every eighteen to twenty four months, rather less
value than shoes. And the hoist for the chair doubles
the price of a cheerful runaround car. Equal
to what?
How many denials does it take?
How many obstacles along the way?
How many rude remarks?
How much intolerance?
How much thoughtlessness?
Before protest can be deemed
righteous?
-By Gini
Yuletide Poem Four
I sit somewhere in the middle of a maze
disabled, like any regular person,
by my personal preference, my desire
for a cleaner, kinder, better, fairer world;
by choices acted on and the consequent
powerlessness of my ever decreasing,
financial, vote. Somewhere behind another
hedge, a clash of massive forces lock antlers
as the rutting stag of capitalism
evades democracy and charges head on
into its nemesis. I sit in the eye
of the storm, choosing the ideology
of less. Proud now of the movement of people
against market forces, of people against
the destruction of society by the
inequality of the Great Capitalist
Delusion. The rotten boroughs, the giants
of acquisition, rut, roar on the brink of
extinction, the catastrophic fall waiting
on their blind side. While we, still in the centre,
go our own way, refusing to move, or buy
our way out with a lifetime indenture to
greed, intolerance, violence and hatred.
I sit with such great sadness for the hareem
of innocents eager to avoid the clash,
unaware of fuelling the inevitable
with their own brand of whimsical choice.
I remain, still but not silent, and ready
to be counted.
It may not be democracy that fails us,
rather our politicians who cannot find
means to protect us from the ravages
of a capitalism that has found its own
way to circumvent the democratic process.
And our own whimsicality fuelling a need to follow;
fuelling a media dangling, willy-nilly,
from that same capitalism’s coat-tails.
A media so desperate to ride the wave
it goes to any length to invent the wolf,
the diversion that will feed the culture of blame
and hatred that strives to enslave us,
distract us from the poverty of helplessness;
bribe us with the annual corruption of giving…
-By Gini
