British Poetry Quotes

“There's not one but two UKs -
one is United Kingdom,
where animals worship a king,
another is United Kin-dom,
where humans live as kin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“More to life than king and country,
More to love than crumpet and nookie.
Rise above all mindless swag,
Break the spell of heartless shag,
Life begins outside the vault of vanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“I’m walking the dogs
But in a cellar in my mind I am rehearsing a scene
In which a woman takes her child to a wasteland
And abandons it
War is coming and she is in flight

- The Last Day Of Your Childhood”
― Sasha Dugdale, Deformations

“Darkness is a hymn
I go to when I wish to fight light, when
reasonable light shovels itself
brick red over all the cities and hills

- Pigment”
― Sasha Dugdale, Deformations

“Love, that slippery snake, is like the law
it eats its nether eye with its morning mouth.

[an experiment]”
― Sasha Dugdale, Deformations