SPIRIT OF WINTER ~ MALE
I AM THE SPIRIT OF WINTER MALE
I AM the Spirit of Winter Male
My Sister, one of many,
You are of course acquainted.
Why look you with surprise?
What is it with you Caucasians?
You conquer and build empires,
Yet I walk by and all I see is the litter of empire
Down the Ages,
Degraded, Putrefied,
Ignominious, Meaningless.
None gainsays Us
Many an army learns
in ignominious retreat,
in last stands at the Grads.
No.
I will stay me here awhile
and ponder upon you peculiar
spiteful people.
You abhorrence to all
that is of infinitesimal wonder
in this Universe
of which you are just
the tiniest multiverse.
I like it here.
Nature and I work together
and long after all trace of you
adds yet another colour
to the Ozone Layer,
Nature, oh yes,
and my sisters and brothers
The Four Seasons
The Four Winds
The Mountain Ranges
All meaningful life
Scattering about the earth
in every Hemisphere
in the deepest darkest depths
of every Ocean
We will have our time.
We are part of this incredible Universe.
You, alas, are merely passers-by,
The wrecking balls of Humankind,
Until Humankind, as always,
turns in upon itself
and FUCKS its way to Oblivion,
… like it always does!
17 December 2023
All Rights Reserved
LIVERPOOL
© 2023 Kenneth Thomas Webb
Digital Artwork by KTW
He’s Right, of Course
As well, you know!
Don’t argue
Otherwise, Nature might accelerate matters and be rid of you once and for all,
As is the way…
E V E R Y T I M E
The more astute will by now have rumbled something which, for many, will be the reason to have nowt to do with that man Ken Webb. I always knew there was sum mitt about him that I didn’t like.
It is this. I have my faith, and guess what? I stand four-square with Darwin, to boot!!!
18 December 2023
All Rights Reserved
LIVERPOOL
© 2023 Kenneth Thomas Webb
Digital Artwork by KTW
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
