New Poems by Sangharakshita

This section contains recent (1999-2002) poems, not
previously published in any media.
 
WRITINGS INDEX
·
· Dancing round the Maypole
· The Warning Voice
· Then and Now
· Queens Past and Present
· The Economic Argument
· The Double Root
· Poet and Muse
· The Listener
· Three Arthurian Poems
· In Krakow
· Guhyaloka, September 1999
· East is East
· To My Teacher, Chetrul Sangye Dorje
· The Six Elements Speak
· The Great Burning
· Remembering Arthadarshin
· The Silver Spoon
· To Michal, with a Photograph
· I am Sitting in the Late Afternoon Sunshine...
· Epigrams
· Justice and Pity
· Haikus
·ARTICLES
· BOOK REVIEWS
· OLD POEMS
·EDITORIAL
  

Then and Now

We waved our little Union Jacks,
And stood and sang God Save the King.
Now 'Empire' is a dirty word,
And loyalty a shameful thing.

Nelson and Drake are villains now,
We wish that they had never been,
Give the thumbs down to our history
And never sing God save the Queen.

8.9.99

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