Just Tell Me a Story ♬ ✍ dada · Posted on October 26, 2024November 4, 2024Just Tell Me a Story explores shifting identities, narrative manipulation, narrative selection and narrative preferences; all creating an ocean of distorted news and misinformation we now have to swim or drown in.
Sauron’s Gaze ♬ ✍ dada · Posted on October 22, 2024October 26, 2024Humans appear hard-wired for stories. But sometimes it’s the story-tellers who hardwire our brains.
Freedom’s Dark Mirror ✍ 💬 dada · Posted on October 20, 2024November 4, 2024An illustrated poem about Freedom. It is a slippery concept. At a surface level everyone just ‘knows’ it is a good thing and so on that basis, some would argue, you can never have too much of it. However …
Maths Lesson 🔊✍ dada · Posted on July 15, 2022October 15, 2024Maths Lesson is another dark tale of social history in verse form so count this as a trigger warning. It should be read or listened to in conjunction with my other verse on the theme of learning and punishment Poor Johnny of Seann Cathair. Verse Looked out of the high window Outside the rain poured down …
Poor Johnny of Seann Cathair 🔊✍ dada · Posted on July 14, 2022October 15, 2024Poetic licence? No. Hyperbole? No. In modern vernacular what follows is a trigger warning. This is not a verse for the faint hearted or for advocates of a return to some mythological idealised past which ‘never did them any harm’. It conveys the imagery of the state-sanctioned normality of what was an everyday occurence. The …
In Their Minds ♬✍ dada · Posted on July 6, 2022October 21, 2024This first version of In Their Minds was the product of a virtual ‘collaboration’ over on the WikiLoops site. There is also an extended later version (see About section below). The ‘collaboration’ has single quote marks because none of us ever actually met or communicated. The WikiLoops model is based on someone initiating a template …
