Art and Music

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Art and Music

Art and music

Dance and poems.

Death and agony,

Prayer and omens.

Dispensing justice

Arbitrary pain.

Extracting a price

For every gain.

Maladjusted monkeys,

Psychotic apes,

Believing they’re superior

Reality gapes.

Dressed in gladrags

Sipping beer,

Pretending sophistication

While despising the queer.

Welling in confusion;

A jigsaw of mad;

Good and bad – black and white,

No sanity to be had.

We create. We destroy.

We elect the very worst.

We wander. We love.

But all we do is cursed!

Opher – 27.12.2024

Once again I am struck by the dichotomy of our nature. We are capable of great love, wisdom and creativity yet spend our time in destructive viciousness.

We make high art, ballet and write astounding novels them bomb babies and slaughter the wildlife.

We are demented, psychotic apes with brains too unstable. Our intelligence is our greatest strength and our biggest weakness.

I suspect it will lead to our downfall.

Ground-breaking new book out TODAY!!! Wonder, Awe and Anger in Rhythm.

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Be the first to grab yourself a copy of my latest poetry book. Available in both Hardback and Paperback (Digital soon to follow)! Full of controversial writing. Cutting edge.

Wonder, Awe and Anger in Rhythm.: Amazon.co.uk: Goodwin, Opher: 9798878850643: Books

Put together from poems and writing through the latter part of 2023. Opher venting his thoughts and feelings through poetry and prose. It’s all there – satire, love, fury, commentary and awe. As I plummet from one extreme to another I expressed it in words – each page a precis of the things churning around in my head.

Support your local indie writer – buy a copy and please – leave a review!!

New poetry book – Visions From The Pits of Love and Despair – now available in paperback!

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I write words that I loosely describe as poems. I put them out on my blog and occasionally release them as books.

This latest book is an anthology of my latest commentaries on the state of the world in this post-Trump, post-Brexit world.

Some of my ‘poems’ are love odes to beauty and wonder, others are howls of protest in which I vent my anger.

Anything that moves me – from beauty, nature, crisis, social disturbance and politics – can find its way into a burst of words. They all mean something to me. I hope they resonate with you.

If you follow my blog you’ve probably read them already.