Songs of Impish Savagery

By Spinflight

Armed with a Schaeffer fountain pen and an SA80 a TA Private in Afghanistan had a touch of the Kiplings. Both cathartic and remarkably well received by his young colleagues, who were not your typical consumers of verse, he resolved to write more, to tell their story.

Fifteen years later this is a collection of poetry from the front lines of the culture wars.

Just a dude and the world as he sees it you'll find after action reports, pen portraits, some unabashedly political ponderings, some bits about cryptocurrency, satirical mockery and even an epic or two.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did writing (some of) it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Spinflight
• Release date: Mar 28, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224649433

Book preview

The Epitaph of Combat (2010)

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In the epitaph of combat,

Only Terry’s names abound.

In the bittersweet hereafter

The very finest sound.

I counted them out and I counted them in

Their faces were profound

I waited on them like Gunga Din

An honourable task I found

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In the pitch black Afghan nighttime

The stories flew around

Of weight and kneehigh quagmires

A battle with the very ground

Of airbursts and Dushkas

Bombs and small arms rounds

No ten dollar Taliban these

Tenacious as starving hounds.

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In the hindsight of safety

The boys knew they’d won a round

The bout continues, the fight goes on

Could be for the very same mound

No regrets said the young Private

No action of mine was unsound

In the epitaph of combat

No sweeter is the sound.

The Ages Rhyme (2020)

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The cult of shrews, no fella will do

Less comprador cucks do kneel and bow.

Confuses the masses, outraged but passive

No agency unless a clown.

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Vote for me, ignorant plebian that be

Unwise to the preselected drones.

Whether left or right, you aren’t so bright

Disciples both with wokery well honed

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Taxes raised, by zealots depraved

Religious bigotry the Treasury’s goal.

And atheists like thee, BBC virtue will see

Choose between the yoke or on the dole.

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No religion remains, the Bible disdained

Priests, pastors the cult instead promote

Intersectionality, logic is unjust banality

Critical race theory preached to provoke.

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The sect of thee, is plain to see.

Dictated! Assumed guilt of feminist foes.

White men obviously, bottom of the tree

Buy indulgences! Soothe Greta’s woes.

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Fair England’s history, a civil war I see

The Protestants against the Pope.

In modernity, a Maoist insurgency

Cloaked in the language of woke.

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Money overseas, don’t say missionaries

Spread the sermon of bras that