Tag: murder
The Mysterious Darnley/Lennox Jewel — Uncontrolled Historian (Reblog)

I’m beginning to really like this girl. Not agreeing with her means nothing, I just enjoy her videos…and Accent. She’s an Ulster girl. The shenanigans that went on within the family featured below was part of my final History Exams. I stopped at the murder of Rizzio. Darnley doesn’t come out of this smelling very […]
The Mysterious Darnley/Lennox Jewel — Uncontrolled Historian
Haiku: ‘Memory’

Forty years ago
Time does not remove the pain
Where are our heroes?
Copyright Francis 2020
The Beast

I conspire with the beast.
Two or three times a day
I must feed my best friend,
this cuddly saturnine feline
such processed packets of slaughter,
which I dispense without
thought into his bowl.
He is the innocent;
it is I who flagrantly
intervenes in nature, my acquiescence
muffling screams — and my conscience.
And what am I
but a lapsed frugivore,
a hypocrite with hippie affectations
who dares to profess that he cares?
*The beast is not the cat but the ‘system’.
Copyright Francis 2020
Haiku: ‘Ever Bleeding’

The great man gunned down
Tragedy stunning the world
Wounds ever bleeding
Copyright Francis 2020