WHERE TO GO
The cause
Before
The pause,
Hands out
Steering
Ino sepia,
Red flags, white flags,
Survivors flagging
Down fleers,
One flag-waver lures
Adherents
Builds barricades,
Millions march,
The defensive
Inflict
Defensive wounds,
No-one is in charge but
We all know what’s
Going on,
Where are the Informed,
We even know where to go,
Yes,
We know [where this is going]
A STORIED TALE
Triumphal
Apocryphal
Stories of exactitude
Rewritten
Hidden
Sold and stolen
Planted in minds
Recirculated
Folklore and fable
Rubbished, banished
Resurfaced, Reinvented
Rhetoric
Believably
Revolutionary
Unctuous and unbidden
Manifesto
Inherited
Installed
Institutionalised
Statute by decree
Patriotic
Inspiring, rousing
Fought for,
Died for.
Argotist Online Poetry is the successor to the poetry section of the now no longer existing The Argotist Online. Send submissions to argotistonline@gmail.com. Closing date for Submissions is 1 April 2025.
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