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It’s a funny place an old man’s night It’s a funny place an old man’s nightFunny peculiar I meanHere you hang, tangled in all the might-have-beensThings that now can never be doneRapt yet in ended conversationsSmothered in kisses now trapped in dustTogether with the lips that gave themYou bang your head against your recollectionsOf yourContinue reading “Yet More Thoughts”

Quod erat demonstrandum Ode to a media personage Look at youYou cunning deceiverArtful falsifierSharp-witted monstrosity of the airwavesChoosing to questionSomeoneWhose answers you already knowQuestions flow from your lipsLike drivelFrom the mouth of a circus monkeyTrained to make purposive mistakesAnd so the show goes onAs you post the trashFor the sake of your own political agendaDealingNotContinue reading “Wayward Thoughts”

Enemies SoYou want to build weaponsMore powerfulThan we could ever dream ofVast devices linked to fissionPerfect in every wayBut O so costlyNot millions but billions is the predictionSo someone must be inspired to payThough what is the point in a peaceful world?Of course, yesEnemies are neededSo devise them, contrive themThen stir the witches’ brewWith theContinue reading “What Do YOU Think?”

POEMS OF TROUBLED TIMES Preface These poems were all written in May 2019. The poems are about people and the weather. The ideas each contains may be different but there is that common thread. Young people in particular these days seem to be passionate about global warming. Recent examples of this emotion in young demonstratorsContinue reading “And The Rivers Rose”

Boat People Look at youI’ve spoken of you beforeWho hasn’t?You with your innocence branded as a crimeDesperate soulsSeeking not gain but domainJust a roof above walls of compassionWhere danger is a thing of the pastAnd kindness is in the airWith recognition of your humanityTo give you the rightsEven peasants have in this kingdomNo! No! No!ItContinue reading “Laments”

Ein Reich Look at youFlaunting your racist catch-criesPosing as well meaning but suffering heroesWhile all that you desire is powerThe ill-gotten gains from lies and subterfugeThe case you put for white supremacyRings around the firmament like auction patterStressing this, condemning thatLike witless herdsmen’s bellowing at cattleWhile you pose as righteousYou punish the needyWith your violentContinue reading “Poems Still”

Fascistic Mission Make our nation great againAs in the good old daysRally round the flag boysCrush all dissentBeware of the generalised othersFight for our martyred middle classConspiracy is in the air, bewareOur foes are strong but we will always winPacifists are tools of the enemyWe are not spineless weaklingsBut heroes born to rise and ruleOurContinue reading “More Poetry”

Intruder On Recent Troop Movements Get to Hell out of my placeI don’t want bullies sharing my time and spacePeace and love are my partnersNot fanatical oppressorsWho march around the countrysideFlexing their muscles, flaunting their powerLooking for a fightAnd threatening to destroy divergent spiritsAre you listening to meOr is our pseudo friendshipMerely a device toContinue reading “Poetry Still Emerges”

Cracked Pot You are a foolA simpleton a moron a dullardI stand by my definitionsLook at youMasquerading as a geniusAu faitWith all the solutions the world needsGiving patriotic speeches written by someone elseGesturing grandlyAnd leading people astrayWith the skill pf a misbegotten card sharpMouthing platitudes reflecting attitudesThat belong in the pastMedieval witch-hunts to be preciseStirringContinue reading “Yet More Poems”

Death Of A Queen Time passes doesn’t it?All the power and the gloryThat once were yoursNow lie on and in a wooden boxSuch a long timeFor you to reign as the saying goesYou, with your face on our coinsA voice from the pastPreaching traditional valuesAs few others canManaging parliament as you doAnd yet forbidden entryGivingContinue reading “Poetry Returns”