The world can be a pretty serious place

When I first wrote the Flubberty Blubberty Tree the world was a kinder place. I started writing nonsense poems for fun. Since then the world has changed, and I have changed. Watching these changes I began to wonder how we hear thousands of words, from politicians and other people, every year suggesting that things are being done to improve our lives and yet, for me, life over the past twenty years has got worse. Sure we have the internet, social media and year round strawberries but things don't seem to be getter better.

This started me asking the question why not? Watching TV, listening to the radio and looking at social media I began to see a growing disconnect between the words people said (or wrote) and what they did. This prompted me to think about the gap between intention and action. My poetry changed. I moved away from nonsense poems to poems about the nonsense people speak.

What is the point of words if they morph once written (or spoken) into different outcomes? If the listener/viewer has to "de-code" them, where does that leave us? For sure there has always been a disconnection between what people say and what they do but it has become a pandemic much worse than SARS or Covid. This disconnect is becoming the nightmare of Orwell's "Newspeak".

Today fake news, fake videos and ingenuous politicians are destroying truth. Truth is being relegated to the dustbin of history. If we carry on like this who knows were we will end up? Is that really the world we want? I don't. I hope my Cautionary tales, which I've now put in my "Blubberty poems" section will play some tiny part (for anyone who reads them!) to alert the world to the dangers of hiding intentions with silky words. Hopefully they won't make you cry but maybe they will help to fight back against the ever growing tsunami of newspeak suffocating truth.

If you'd like to contribute a Flubberty poem or a Blubberty poem why not send it in? You never know, you too could become a "published author" :)

Peter Duquemin, October 2023

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