Fighting Words – Available in Paperback/Hardback/Kindle

This is my latest offering. Just more words. I may have invented one or two but mainly they are just old words rearranged in order to recreate the thoughts and feelings that swirl around in my head. I have these concepts living in electricity in circuits in my brain. They seem to mean something. I translate them into symbols. These symbols are made of letters. The letters represent sounds. The sounds form a language. Language enables conscious human beings to express themselves and communicate. Communication is good. We are not alone. We share.

The hope is that the emotions, feelings are thoughts that go on in my head are similar to the ones that reside in your head. It’s a forlorn hope. In reality we are islands of consciousness unable to understand the universe any other being inhabits. My red is different to your red. I live in an entirely different universe to you.

But I am not deterred.

I still interpret electricity, convert it to symbols and use them to make contact. It’s futile. All life is futile. That’s what makes it magnificent.

These are my words.

You can purchase my words for a very small sum of money. You can own them, think about them and see if we manage to communicate across the infinite reaches that separate us. I hope so!

Fighting words. Fighting life. Fighting meaning. Life not death.
Fighting justice, fighting freedom, Fighting for breath.
Fighting arrogance, fighting violence, Fighting Hate.
Fighting for my principles before it’s all too late!
Fighting greed, fighting oppression, for fairness and ice-cream!
Fighting for fun, for love, for tolerance – fighting ‘til I scream!
Words are my weapons. Words have many meanings.
I’m fighting words. I’m fighting words.
These are my words.

Fighting Words

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Fighting Words eBook : Goodwin, Opher: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Fighting words. Fighting life. Fighting meaning. Life not death.
Fighting justice, fighting freedom, Fighting for breath.
Fighting arrogance, fighting violence, Fighting Hate.
Fighting for my principles before it’s all too late!
Fighting greed, fighting oppression, for fairness and ice-cream!
Fighting for fun, for love, for tolerance – fighting ‘til I scream!
Words are my weapons. Words have many meanings.
I’m fighting words. I’m fighting words.
These are my words.

Fighting Words eBook : Goodwin, Opher: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Fighting Words

Fighting Words

by Opher Goodwin  

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Fighting Words – an extract

I think this one has to be recited out loud!

Too Much News Blues

I’m drowning in news

                Coming at me from all corners.

Plenty of views

                Trying their hardest to warn us.

Putin is dying.

                Trump is bound to lose.

Gaza is frying.

                I’ve got the too much news blues.

The planet’s heating up.

                Trump’s turning up the gas.

Drinking from an evil cup

                Dancing to rotten jazz.

Can’t turn on the TV

                Without blown up tank crews

Death and destruction:

                I’ve got the too much news blues.

The Tories left a black hole.

                The Republicans are all mad.

Results wrong in every poll.

                Feels like we’ve been had.

Wallowing through the info

                Trying not to blow a fuse.

Seeking out the truth

                 I’ve got the too much news blues.

Billionaires spread disinformation

                Manipulating us.

Brain inflammation:.

                Thrown under the bus.

Scratting a living

                Paying all our dues.

Life is unforgiving.

                I’ve got the too much news blues.

Opher – 15.11.2024

Never has a world been so full of news and reporting. Never has there been so much disinformation. Various factions vie to tell us lies. Governments and politicians, businessmen and media. Most of it is wrong; some of it is deliberate misinformation meant to confuse us.

Algorithms kick in to boost whatever view we take.

Our beliefs are magnified, nurtured and distorted.

We’re being manipulated by devious people for their gain.

Nothing is clear. Nothing is black and white.

We’re being lied to.

We can’t believe anything.

Conspiracy gets dafter by the minute.

It threatens the very fabric of society.

                 I’ve got the too much news blues.

Fighting Words eBook : Goodwin, Opher: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Fighting words. Fighting life. Fighting meaning. Life not death.
Fighting justice, fighting freedom, Fighting for breath.
Fighting arrogance, fighting violence, Fighting Hate.
Fighting for my principles before it’s all too late!
Fighting greed, fighting oppression, for fairness and ice-cream!
Fighting for fun, for love, for tolerance – fighting ‘til I scream!
Words are my weapons. Words have many meanings.
I’m fighting words. I’m fighting words.
These are my words.

Book Launch – Fighting Words

I bring out my new book FIGHTING WORDS out TODAY!!

Fighting Words eBook : Goodwin, Opher: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Here’s a sample!!

How to repel Trump’s Nazi thugs

Put books on the shelves and educate the kids,

Discuss science and art and acanthocephalids.

Talk about compassion and helping our fellow man.

Tell them in our community, we do all that we can.

Spray the whole house to remove all Musk’s bugs.

That’s how to repel horrid Trump’s Nazi thugs.

Train your boys to treat women with respect

Your girls to stand tall and shout ‘What the Heck!’

Demand their rights regardless of gender or race.

Tell fascists they’re a complete disgrace to their face.

Connect the door knocker to the electricity plugs

That’s how to repel Trump’s horrid Nazi thugs.

Study nature in all its wonderful ways

Introduce your friends – the straights and the gays.

Talk about ecology and the impact of man.

Share with them the recycling plan.

Play them good music from Harper to Suggs

That’s how to repel Trump’s horrid Nazi thugs.

Discuss equality – the rich exploiting the poor;

The history of franchise and calamity of war.

Make them empowered to stand up for themselves.

Ban superstition – Jesus, Mohammed and elves.

Don’t forget to give them plenty of hugs;

That’s how to repel Trump’s horrid Nazi thugs.

Welcome foreigners and travel the world.

Share all your dreams, with your hopes unfurled.

Taste all you can taste from cultures and realms

With an open heart so nothing overwhelms.

When the racists chant you won’t need your earplugs.

That’s how to repel Trump’s Nazi thugs.

Opher – 5.11.2024

It’s November 5th. The fireworks are happening in the USA this year!

They’ll be bonfires in the Capitol if Trump gets his way!

All around the world Trump’s philosophy resounds! Nazi philosophy – walls and tariffs – isolationism and sucking up to despots and tyrants.

This is either the age of the Nazi or the era when we put the lid on this hideousness.

The evangelists are in the wings with their Project 2025. They want women back in shackles.

It’s either back to the cruel hypocritical puritanism of the 18th century (with its brothels and men’s clubs and women in chains) or it’s forward to a joyful 21st century!

We’ll see.

Fighting Words – A Magical Land

A Magical Land

I opened my eyes to a magical land,

                Took a moment for my mind to expand,

                                Smiled at the things close at hand,

                                                Rummaged in the attic to taste what’s planned;

Another day for a desperate stand.

She stirred beside me without a care,

                Opened her eyes on everywhere,

                                Reached out to cuddle me close

With the healing touch that means the most.

Then up to it with the tea and toast.

The sun smiled,

                Green leaves throbbed,

                                Butterflies capered,

                                                Bees bobbed,

Crows cawed

                Swifts screamed

                                But nothing much

                                                Was as it seemed.

Outside the door the battle loomed.

                Casualties sagged with ideals entombed.

                                                I took my place in the front line,

                                                                Hanging on to what was mine:

A ragged warrior lost in time.

Hard to remember what and why

                As years pass and friends fly by;

                                Dreams perish and babies cry.

Ensnared by the eternal slice of the pie.

But the dream’s alive

                Amid greed and hate.

                                Embers flare

                                                At the edge of the gate.

The spirit still roars from under the weight

She touches my hand

                All twinkling eyes

                                Full of love

                                                And morning skies.

The strength flows,

                Tenacity grows.

Where we’re going

                No-one knows!

We ran through the forests

                Danced on the plains,

                                Conquered the seas

                                                Crossed the mountain range.

Roamed the deserts,

                Through the strength of our brains.

We filled the air

                With the joy of our song,

                                Praising the sun,

                                                The land and the sky.

Filling our minds with the where, what and why?

In all of this we belong

                Yet that is where it all went wrong.

Creating leaders,

                Inventing gods

                                Possessions and armies

                                                Rockers and Mods.

In an endless sequence of agony and gore

                Tragic stupidity; endless war;

We live in the days of mindless hordes,

                Fake news, propaganda and threat of the spores.

We’ve lost our connection to the bees and the trees,

                Brought Mother Nature down to her knees.

In the senseless game that we play

                Where a few get everything

                                And the mindless just pray.

Our inventions betray us

                Rob us of life.

Cut from reality

                With the stroke of a knife.

The future a blizzard,

                The past a blood bath.

Looking for purpose

                You must be having a laugh!!

Opher – 2.8.2024

It’s a little epic; stretching from the personal to the universal and crossing time. More than a passing nod to the great Roy Harper – Me And My Woman, The Lord’s Prayer, The Game – though I do not claim to warrant any comparison.

The stupidity and gullibility of mankind never ceases to amaze me.

Our propensity for violence, endless wars; our blind ignorance.

An amazing, magical land; a mysterious journey, marred by tribalism, greed and hate. We deploy our inventions of leaders, gods, politics and lust against ourselves.

Born in a magical land we ignore the abundant treasure for a pocket full of fool’s gold.