{"id":4078,"date":"2015-04-15T19:07:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2019-02-11T06:34:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T06:34:06","slug":"the-name-of-cameron-a-poem-by-sara-l-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/the-name-of-cameron-a-poem-by-sara-l-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Name of Cameron. A Poem by Sara L Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes\/posts\/425769454248940\" data-width=\"500\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes\/posts\/425769454248940\"><p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes\">Poetry Life &amp; Times<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PoetryLifeTimes\/posts\/425769454248940\">Sunday, 5 April 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>What will they say of you in future times?<br \/>\nWere they duped by your duplicity<br \/>\nor did you fall on your double-edged sword?<br \/>\nWas the devil we knew any better than the unknown?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The future has a way of arriving early.<br \/>\nAre you ready now, for what it yet may bring?<br \/>\nWill you be knighted, or, benighted and beleaguered,<br \/>\nFall fallow by the wayside of your ways?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Will the name of Cameron carry on,<br \/>\nWhatever else is lost or left behind?<br \/>\nWill David slay the apocolyptic giant of global warming,<br \/>\nyet terminate the service of National Health?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Was it wealth, or a poverty of emotional maturity<br \/>\nthat led to such flotations and privatisations?<br \/>\nwhat sensations did you feel, did you reach referendum,<br \/>\ndid you feel the earth move?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>We never saw your manifesto made manifest.<br \/>\nWe, the voters who voted not for you,<br \/>\nyet saw you rise, anticipate your fall.<br \/>\nDo promises count as any kind of plan?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And the future is arriving post-haste,<br \/>\nlike a present waiting to be unwrapped.<br \/>\nElections have a way of arriving early.<br \/>\nWe are ready, with a big sharp X.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sara-Russel-latest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sara-Russel-latest-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Russel latest\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sara-Russel-latest-300x299.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sara-Russel-latest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sara-Russel-latest-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sara-Russel-latest-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sara-Russel-latest-450x449.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sara-Russel-latest.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Sara Louise Russell, aka PinkyAndrexa, is a UK poet and poetry ezine editor, specialising particularly in sonnets, lyric-style poetry and occasionally writing in more modern styles. She founded<em> Poetry Life &#038; Times<\/em> and edited it from 1998 to 2006, when she handed it over to Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospide; Robin now runs it as Editor from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\">Poetry Life &#038; Times<\/a>. She is currently founder and Editor of the daily paper.li journal, Poetry Lifetimes ; which is a sister publication to<em> Poetry Life &#038; Times<\/em>. Her poems and sonnets have been published in many paper and online publications including <em>Sonnetto Poesia, Mindful of Poetry <\/em>and <em>Autumn Leaves<\/em> a monthly Poetry ezine from the late Sondra Ball. Her sonnets also currently appear in the recently published anthology of sonnets <em>Phoenix Rising from the Ashes<\/em>. She is also one of the first poets ever to be published on multimedia CD ROMs, published by <em>Kedco Studios Inc.<\/em>; the first one being <em>&#8220;Pinky&#8217;s Little Book of Shadows&#8221;<\/em>, which was featured by the UK&#8217;s national newspaper The <em>Daily Mirror<\/em>, in October 1999. 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