The Anniversary
Labels: bereavement, death, families, gangs, grief, gun crime, hate crime, human nature, knife crime, love, murder, peer pressure, poetry, remembrance, society, street crime, victims, violence, young people
Thoughts and observations by English poet Roger N. Taber, a retired librarian and poet-novelist.- "Ethnicity, Religion, Gender, Sexuality ... these are but parts of a whole. It is the whole that counts." RNT [NB While I have no wish to create a social network, I will always reply to critical emails about my poetry. Contact: rogertab@aol.com].
Sadly, a bad fall in 2012 has left me with a mobility problem, and being diagnosed with prostate cancer the same year hasn't helped, but I get out and about with my trusty walking stick as much as I can, take each day as it comes and try to keep looking on the bright(er) side of life. Many of my poems reflect the need to nurture a positive-thinking mindset whatever life throws at us.
Labels: bereavement, death, families, gangs, grief, gun crime, hate crime, human nature, knife crime, love, murder, peer pressure, poetry, remembrance, society, street crime, victims, violence, young people
Labels: gang culture, human nature, human spirit, knife crime, life forces, London (UK), machismo, mortality, peer pressure, poetry, society, street crime, victims, violence, young people
Labels: crime, death, family, fear, gangs, hate crime, human nature, knife crime, life, mind-body-spirit, murder, peer pressure, personal space, poetry, positive thinking, schools, society, street crime, violence, young people
Labels: crime, drug abuse, gun crime, knife crime, life forces, love, mind-body-spirit, peer pressure, personal space, poetry, positive thinking, radicalisation, self-destruct, society, street crime, violence, young people
Labels: gang culture, gangs, gun crime, hate crime, human nature, knife crime, life, mind-body-spirit, peer pressure, personal space, poetry, prevention, prison, society, street cred, street crime, violence, young people
Labels: bigotry, culture, discrimination, education, ethnicity, gangs, hate crime, homophobia, human nature, knife crime, poetry, prejudice, racism, responsibility, society, Stephen Lawrence, street cime, young people
Labels: bigotry, climate change, drug abuse, gang culture, global consciousness, human nature, knife crime, mind-body-spirit, peer pressure, personal space, poetry, politics, religion, society, street crime, young people