Naïve
The busy
Self-centred capitalists
The soft socialists
The hopeless dreamers
None of them
Noticed the bulge
Of the pregnancy
Mother ‘Far Right’
Is with child once more
Yet still
Across Western Europe
The realisation
Of imminent birth
Of another beast
In human form
Fails to stir
Anything other
Than ‘worrying’
Stats
Percentages
Voting habits
The surgeon’s knife
Is at the ready
A Caesarean cut
Is planned
Golden framed
Spectacles donned
The surgeon grins
Readying himself
Awaiting the nod
Of the like-minded
To make the ‘cut’
Pity Democracy
Denies enforced
Abortion
Thinks this radical
Early morn USA
Uncle Sam
Takes morning coffee
Thumbs through
The NY Times
Middle East
Nigeria
Ukraine
Same old same old
Notes at least
There is nothing much
Of material interest
Going on
The other side
Of the pond
- MIKE STEEDEN - 
Brilliant, disturbing and utterly pertinent, Mike. I couldn’t agree more.
Cheers. Worry times ahead if the EU were to break up and the far right come to the fore once more.
I shudder with your shudder – even though here in the US my views are often called “far right” I know the truth of who I am – I fear the real far right as well as the far left – perhaps we can figure out some way for them annihilate each other
Sir, you may be on the ‘right’ yet I observe from your poetry that you are a proud American who believes in democracy. When Western Europe gets a touch of the vapours democracy goes out of the window and that is my fear. Prior to the EU Germany, France, Britain etc.etc. would be at war on average every decade as far back as recorded history. The Union has brought about 70 years of peace. I see it all going horribly wrong. And, I agree wholeheartedly that far right/left should not be given access to the democratic process – even if that sounds like a contradiction. Society must take care of society – even Thatcher understood that.
still too early for an EU sense of nationalism?
Brilliant my friend and oh so true. This reminds me of Yeats poem “The Second Coming.” Like his, yours is a prophecy of doom and darkness too few see, especially too few Americans.
Wake up America – for all its arguable faults it remains the home (religion aside) of freedom.
And, unfortunately, chosen ignorance and unabashed pride in the same abound throughout it. I fear bad things are brewing that in our children’s time will wreak a havoc on them unlike anything the world has ever seen. And that’s my most optimistic view on the matter. 😀
If the EU breaks up your prediction will come to fruition a little earlier as expansionism replaces union – the lessons of Western European history and all that.
Awesome! Love it!
Cheers – I fear for Europe presently. The evil of the far right is returning to haunt us once again methinks.
Ohoho.. if a Dystopian Society is to flood our way than I shall say the earth & civilization is to haunts us once again. If Europe.. Nay! Not much.
Once again your political brilliance shines through, Mike. I really think you ought to run for some sort of public office. I’d vote for you. 😀
Thanks for that yet I fear assassination. The far right, in my case, would go beyond being an angry mob. Thanks for the thought anyway!
Oh, you can’t let a little thing like an angry mob scare you.
Try telling that the Count Dracula!
LOL! Well, he’s Transylvanian, not British. Besides if you put on your running shoes, you’ll be fine.
Not with the knew I knackered during an unfortunate episode attempting to serve legal papers upon a miscreant some years ago! Crippled I am!
OUCH! Well, you could always carry a cane with a sharp poisoned tip.
If only I were a Russian in London focused on a diplomatic target!
Hmm… well, perhaps a safety helmet and goggles and a bullet proof vest. 🙂
This is one of those works people might revisit not too long from now and say: ‘Hm, guess we should have seen what was coming.’ Brilliant piece of work and yet another good reason I believe your poetry deserves and is even in need of a wider audience. I do hope a publisher will fall from the sky into your back yard one of these days.
Shirl has made me agree to piece them together in book form. What I shall do with thereafter is, of course, a matter of conjecture!
God bless Shirl!
Cheers.