Edward Graham Macfarlane
 
published in "Journeys of the Mind"
ed: Chris Walton
Triumph House, 1999
ISBN 1 86161 404 7
Truthful Writing
 
I have aimed at truthful writing,
Which is accurate to boot
Ever since I was a student
At a teacher-training institute.
I went into it a Christian,
But came out a more truthful man,
For the lectures convinced me,
They worked on a better educating plan.
I was told of Montessori and of Plato,
Aristotle, Voltaire, and some beyond recall,
And about Psychology and World History,
Being made well-known to all,
I agreed with these ideas,
And accepted them as true,
But then I began to notice,
Men like Bill Clinton in the queue.
Bill pretends to be God-fearing,
But I don't believe he is,
For he lied just like a lawyer,
As he answered in his quiz.
He reminded me of Tony Blair,
Who is similarly flawed,
I don't mean the fornication thing,
I am thinking now of God
And the faith and nation spring,
Blair and Clinton rub along,
Because I think they have agreed,
That they should be national spokesmen,
Of an American and a British creed. (breed?)
If I'd been Clinton's interviewer,
I feel certain that I could,
Have established clear and open,
Exactly what he did in sexy mood.
His interviewer Starr,
Has plainly failed this thing to do,
Despite the pages used,
To record the interview.
Mr Starr should step aside,
And let a teacher true like me,
Get answers which make sense
For all eternity.
Off-hand I'm telling you,
That the Blair-Clinton lies on God
Are the things that matter now,
We need a new presidential vow,
For a Single World Republic Squad.
Cook's Coterie of nations World
Is a gaffe condemned by me!
We really need One Peace President,
Ruling one global democracy.
To disband all part-world war gangs,
But, now agree with me.
Create one Global Poetry site,
For human solidarity.
 
 
EGM writes:  
Well done Chris, for including my poem in your latest anthology, especially when you based the book on your 
selection on the "Best 100 Poets for 1998." 
I think that this proves you realise that we urgently need a Glasnost Media and Press Service for Humanity, whereas 
the Government's civil service uses the same (part-world) political assumptions as the UK patriots in all three British
parties which are opposed to websites like WORLD FORUM based upon Humanism which assumes that human 
beings are the only source of purposeful creation in the universe. 
The opposition is wrong to oppose Humanist theory for world order and one of the signs that anti-Humanists are at 
work is suppresion of messages which contain realistic views about religion and theology in general. 
 
 
 
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