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poems of conscience

glimpsed in passing - by Julie Johnstone

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People Made Glasgow - by Kate Tough

{ Poem }

Shame in our hulls
/ why else would we drink to incoherence
/ jump on the heads of passing men
/ punch our women
/ tell our children…

George Square - by Jackie Kay

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My seventy-seven-year-old father
/ put his reading glasses on
/ to help my mother do the buttons
/ on the back of her dress.
/ ‘What a pair…

Your thin shoulders whips will redden - by Osip Mandelstam

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Your thin shoulders whips will redden,
/ whips will redden, and ice make leaden.
/
/ Your childish arms will heave rail-tracks,
/ heave rail-tracks and sew…

from Pamietam - by Krystyna Milobedzka

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(zapisy stanu wojennego)
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/ ***
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/ po narodzinach po smierciach po narodzinach
/
/ po latach o tu, w tym miejscu
/
/ troche blizej was troche siebie dalej
/
/ w mojej…

Being a Human Being - by Tom Leonard

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not to be complicit
not to accept everyone else is silent it must be alright

not to keep one’s mouth shut to hold onto one’s job
not to accept public language as cover and decoy

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