The Poli-Diddle Fiddle The poli-diddle is your job, is your jobThe poli-diddle is your job, yes your moneyed jobMP you’re a flop yet you’ll rise to the topAs long as you are a liar So lie or fib or fabricate, taradiddle mislead or prevaricateYou dearly need to win some votes no matter what the costYouContinue reading “Voices In A Tempest”
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Reflections In A Teardrop
Justice Calling There is a friend of mineWho adds life and colour to my existenceHe is kind to meAnd never incurs my resistanceHow strange that isThat he should enrich my lifeFor he is condemned to a bitter worldOf solitude and strifeA victim now he isOf anger in his pastEchoes of a time of youthful troubleAndContinue reading “Reflections In A Teardrop”
Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
The Power Of The Lie So you are seeking power and fameControl of the herdStatus in the hierarchyThe method is simpleDecide what the masses desireThen boldly, flamboyantly, unequivocally achieve itNot reallyOnly with wordsTell the biggest lies your conspiring mind allowsTo fulfil your own wishesShout them from the tree topsBellow soulfully what seems to be trueContinue reading “Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide”
On A Villain Or Two
The Quality Of Mercy The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. ‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown.Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ActContinue reading “On A Villain Or Two”
Emotion Recollected
No Sunsets Or Rainbows “Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” From the sonnet “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Strange, O so strangeI wantContinue reading “Emotion Recollected”
Four Problems And One Solution
Guess Who They see him here; they see him thereThose weaklings see him everywhereIs he in Heaven or is he in HellThat damned evasive n’er-do-well? He breaks the law; makes a bundle what’s moreAnd rules his roost with profits galoreIs he a king or an elder of noteOr simply a liar who gets your vote?Continue reading “Four Problems And One Solution”
On Political Virtues and Vices
Old Soldier For an 87-year-old protester, June 2025 One old soldier still found a causeA reason to fight as in past warsSo when a fascist spawned a military paradeHe rebelled to prove he is still not afraidBoldly he came forth putting courage to the testIn the face of that folly he could not restAnger hadContinue reading “On Political Virtues and Vices”
Moments of Anger
Beyond Reason Interest flows in the hoodwink seasonIn the methods used to deceive beyond reasonDenialism that ignores human rightsIs a reason the firestorm of anger ignitesSo gather round all you seekers of veracityAnd give this poor world a change capacityIf people are dying with no moral causeThe finger of blame points to anger not applauseIfContinue reading “Moments of Anger”
Angst
On The Rule Of Law Criminals despise the judiciaryAnd love to exploit a defenceless fiduciarySome plan harm for virtuous judgesAnd violently proclaim their sordid grudgesHave you seen that vociferous gangsterWho rules the domain like a deranged prankster?He is in fact the boss of the landBut all that he does is underhandHe twists the law toContinue reading “Angst”
More Thoughts For Our Times
Fake Statesman Look at me; can’t you seeMy ignominyThat truly shapes your destiny?O yes, I am such an overt winnerBut in so many ways I am a sinnerI mark every day with cunning displayOf overt virtue that’s always astrayI pose as a saviour with misleading behaviourFlooding people’s minds with deceitful gravureI’ve no regard for theContinue reading “More Thoughts For Our Times”
Royce Levi Australian Teacher and Author 