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The Watchers
Gill Learner
after Edmund Blunden
There is no challenge against attacks;
not even the unexplained phone-call clicks
and echoed voices of Greenham days
but who knows now how many eyes
are tracking our searches, checking
our emails, logging our texts, hacking
into our virtual lives for heaven knows what
and only the brave speak out.
Theirs are the ‘stern, fine’ voices
who warn us, ask who polices
the watchers, listeners, spies
while news is spun in cunning ways
so no one can ever be certain
what’s seen, what’s known.
Gill is a retired lecturer living in Reading. She began writing poetry in 2001 and her first collection, The Agister’s Experiment, was published by Two Rivers Press in 2011.
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