Oh, Roger, that's tad harsh. I was smiling to myself as I read the poem because I'd been thinking how much of a leveller Nature can be, how the focus changes from political storms to real ones and how poetry copes.
I know what you mean though. Some time ago I answered a "fear" challenge with a hard look at my own coulrophobia. I was so scared of what I wrote that I hid it for a "cooling-off period" (it dealt with paedophilia in the persona of the funny man whom parents unaccountably trust). Now we are going through a scandal in the UK and I have decided that I won't jump on the bandwaggon and wave it. I'd thought of testing it on "metrical" but the thought of being judged to have done so opportunistically stayed my submit button. And I didn't want to consider NVN for reasons that are largely in accord with yours.
Storms, in my view, are fairer game than individual political figures.
I think that we have the makings of an interesting thread here, but not sure if it belongs on D&A, the merry ethos of which is precious to me. What do our moderators think?
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