Tag: poems
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Sigmund Freud – Pioneer or Provocateur?
The name ‘Sigmund Freud’ brings with it antagonistic thoughts in my mind, was he a sexist pig or pioneering psychoanalyst? I was going to enter a poetry competition recently about his findings on ‘civilisation and it discontents’. But something stopped me in my tracks. It was the opinions of others around me when I told…
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Poem – Lost
Below is a poem I wrote in a state of confusion one evening. I was at a loss with what my purpose in life should be. Frustrated that I had so many thoughts in my mind yet took so little action: Lost I feel lost, There’s a voice in my head that can never be…
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2nd Place Poem – End Hunger UK – ‘A Closed Fist’
‘A Closed Fist’ – a spin on the meaning to hurt someone. A closed fist can be a punch but it could also be inferred to as a hand that is not offering food and therefore hurting someone by starving them. I wanted the poem to show how it’s essential to be kind to one another. Afterall you never know where someone might be in their…
The Neon Squid 