ROMANTICS
THE NEW ROMANTICS
Today is the anniversary of John Keats’
death in Rome at 25 Shelley alive until 29
died at Sardinia drowned in a stormy sea
His elegy for Keats Adonias remains the
great lyric treatise of the Romantics
Lord Byron too died on a far shore Greece
at 36 from a cold +violent fever The last of
the great Romantics She walks in beauty
like the night of cloudless climes +starry skies
A far cry from the: New Romantics A group of
brits ex-patriots who walk in darkness The latest
recruits of ISIS 3 teenage girls 15-17 heading for
Istanbul Soon to be the wives of jihadis My little
sister is an A student To convince such young girls
who are vulnerable is really evil
Romantic notions of becoming jihadi-brides shattered
along old spice-routes leading to lives of servitude rape
+martyrdom Look at the girls in sneakers & colourful
clothes smiling as each walks alone through security at
Gatwick
On their way to Turkey now where youth grows pale and
spectre thin and dies where beauty cannot keep These
light winged dryads of East London
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Come home. We miss you. We can’t stop crying.
Abase Hussen 47 father of Amira missing since Tuesday
Winter 2015
