Tony Frobisher
I Didn't Want to Kill Today
I Didn’t Want to Kill Today I didn’t want to kill today. In school and house and hospital, no Say it was done in the name of peace,...
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Tony Frobisher
Sep 24, 20231 min read
Lost. By Sea.
Lost. By Sea. The beaches are deserted. Autumn spikes the air with The threat of frost. Fog gathers and the Waves spill, listless, yet...
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Tony Frobisher
May 6, 20231 min read
We Walked
We Walked We walked over broken brick and glass, Shattered fragments of recent lives Lost to memories in burnt photographs, But held in...
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Tony Frobisher
Jan 28, 20231 min read
Where The Poppies Grow
Come lie Where the poppies grow A place to die Where the poppies grow Where the wind meets the question Why? With silence __ Yesterday...
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Tony Frobisher
Jan 2, 20231 min read
Our Land
Our Land Our land is no land, A land of bullet and gun. Our land is scarred and ruined, A land from which we had to run. Our land is just...
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Tony Frobisher
Jan 2, 20231 min read
Weathered Beaches
Weathered Beaches Hands buried in armpits, Wrapped up in a Fisherman's friend of A thick woolly sweater. A jumper on the beach, An eager...
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Tony Frobisher
Jan 2, 20231 min read
Banking in Winter
Banking in Winter They cried into the Darkness of an unlit room as Silence filled the chilly air. The radiators no longer Creaked and the...
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Tony Frobisher
Feb 27, 20221 min read
Covid / War
Covid / War The day the war came, Covid went away. The fog of war replaced The viral load, and Covid knew it'd had its day. The day war...
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Tony Frobisher
Feb 27, 20221 min read
War On Social Media
War On Social Media They watched the war on Facebook, Then laughed at all the cat memes. They watched the war on Twitter, In 2 minute...
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Tony Frobisher
Feb 14, 20222 min read
The Train South From Glasgow (Masks On) / Th' Train Sooth Fae Glascae (Masks Oan)
The Train South From Glasgow (Masks On) We’re all in it Just the same. Except when we’re travelling From Scotland to England, On the...
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Tony Frobisher
Jan 30, 20221 min read
Home or Away?
Home or Away? (On Leave or Leaving?) Going abroad For a couple of weeks Bit of sun and sea Chilling out by the beach Going abroad Forced...
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Tony Frobisher
Jan 30, 20222 min read
Seaside Demise
Seaside Demise (Under The Greyest of Skies) No one's off to Great Yarmouth For seaside fish n chips, Or stopping over in Rhyll, Where the...
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Tony Frobisher
Jan 30, 20222 min read
Bus Trip Britain
Bus Trip Britain There's more of them than us Pojedziemy pieszo czy pojedziemy autobusem? (Shall we walk or take the bus?) And they...
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Tony Frobisher
Jan 18, 20221 min read
View From A Park Bench
View From A Park Bench (Hope for the future) There's a young boy, 3 or 4, Delighting as he swings Higher and higher, then Tumbling onto...
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Tony Frobisher
Aug 23, 20211 min read
Travelling - A Different Perspective
Travelling - A Different Perspective Travel brings its own challenges What to bring, what to leave behind Sun cream and summer top?...
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Tony Frobisher
Aug 23, 20212 min read
Another
Another Another sofa another favour Another just one more night Another thank God you're a life saver Another job interview Another queue...
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Tony Frobisher
Aug 10, 20213 min read
Manc-Union
Manc-Union I see solidarity Painted on a brick wall. Shining on children's Faces, waving handwritten Placards with heartfelt Messages -...
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Tony Frobisher
Jul 28, 20213 min read
Universal Declarations*
Article 01: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Walk with me. I was once free, Born into a family Of love...
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Tony Frobisher
Jul 16, 20213 min read
Dialectically Opposed
The Geordie Ahm gannin hyem Heading te tha Toon Back up te Newcastle I'll see yee very soon Ahm gannin hyem Back up te the North East...
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Tony Frobisher
Jul 10, 20212 min read
The Corvids and the Passerines
The Corvids and the Passerines Smoke lingers over Flandrian fields, Where the last vestige Of humanity was lain to waste. And as the...
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