Born Forty-eight
BORN FORTY-EIGHT
As empire expired
A National Health Service
Now on its last legs
God bless the 1960s
And that I have no children
Posted on January 21, 2018, in Poetry, Tanka and tagged Children, Health, Life, Social commentary. Bookmark the permalink. 18 Comments.
Ben Naga 
Arrgh yes those baby boomer years I was a 50’s baby.. 🙂 Enjoying the swinging 60’s 🙂
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A great gift.
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🙂 ❤
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Reblogged this on From 1 Blogger 2 Another.
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Many thanks. 🙂
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spent my working
life in the public health service.
why citizens have been misled
on the right to universal care
is totally criminal 🙂
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Me too. (Learning disability in my case.) “Divide and conquer” has been a motto for the power-hungry for millennia and unfortunately it still remains effective while the wolves feed on the sheep. Several kinds of learning disability it seems.
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If the entire world would stop spending money on military and war and instead invest in healthcare (and research) we’d all have improved health, affordable care, and world peace. But then I’m a dreamer. (…sigh….) 😔
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OTOH you and John (Lennon) aren’t the only ones.
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True. (A tip of the hat to John. 🙂 )
We must do more than Imagine though… But I feel helpless and ineffective most of the time, and it seems most everyone else does too, considering what we’re up against. But we can never give up. “Hope alone survives.” (Can’t remember who said that…?)
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I rewatched The Hunger Games at the weekend where at one point President Snow says, “A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous.”
Chilling.
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I’ve never watched the movie so thanks for this little clip. Chilling indeed!
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I’d recommend it. The original book is good too.
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I know the premise and saw the trailer but sounded too depressing. (They aired it on t.v. recently and I couldn’t bring myself to even begin watching. But with your recommendation maybe I will next time.)
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Remember how in fairy stories (and in Star Wars 🙂 ) the Good always triumphs in the end. 🙂
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Okay, as long as Good triumphs I shall watch it next time I get a chance. Thank you, Ben. (So many movies end unhappily these days and as an empath they’re hard to get over, even though they’re fiction.)
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Remember it’s a trilogy though, and as with the film version of the Lord of the Rings, the third book was expanded into two films. You might want to look at the books themselves instead. She’s not a bad writer.
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Thanks for the good advice! 🙂
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