Category Archives: poetry

Student Loans Student loans are a follyAn imprudence close to lunacyBecauseGraduates are essentialTo the survivalOf every societyIt is a tragic misdeedTo impose financial punishmentOn every studentFor dreaming of bettermentFor daring to meet the challengeOf learning in a needy worldIt is also alasPart of the free enterprise syndromeThe open marketThe balanced budget disorderThat intrudes into everydayContinue reading “More New Thoughts”

The Market Magus To all advertisers The Market MagusHaunts the Hills Of ShameWith diamonds on his fingersGold anklets on his legsReady to control your journeyBeware of himFor he has no mercyNo pity for guilt-free travellersNo care for pilgrimsHe simply dares to plunder themEvery voyager in the Land of PlentyWill find him intruding in your wayHeContinue reading “New Thoughts”

A Funereal Address Much have I wanderedIn the world of the livingTime is hardly a problemThereFor I am still alive at ninetyYet pain ensuesAs I was cast asideTo writhe in my own companyMemories are empty thingsTo those who leave me aloneMany long years of togethernessDissolveLike allergy medication tablets in waterAs I sighSoftly in despairAnd adviseContinue reading “Elderly Epilogue”

Asylum Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
 The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
 Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me From “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus 1883 On the Statue Of Liberty To imprison asylum seekersIs a crime masquerading as necessityIndefinite detention will make future historians wonderWhy racism flourished in our timeHabeasContinue reading “The Last Elderly Melodies”

Shock Jocks Wisdom is a fleeting thingVery scarce these daysEven though radio guiding lights constantly say they have itThey babble on interminablyAccording to the planMouthing ultra-conservative blimpish discourseAs dictated by their mastersSo advocates of social change are communistsThe climate is not warmingForeigners are flooding our nationSelected countries threaten our bordersThere, reactionary politicians are interviewed favourablyWhileContinue reading “Yet More Elderly Melodies”

On Truth It’s an ephemeral thing, truthElusiveYet somehow an incitement when you find itA way of seeing thingsThat gives you unexpected powerThe confidence to think wiselyTo influence people in a worthy wayAnd expose false prophetsYou can be sure somewhere, some timeYou will need it desperatelySo often in life we are beset with chasms of deceitEntrappedContinue reading “Still More Elderly Melodies”

Qu’est-ce la vie sans rêve?* So the court has decided somethingRather has stated the obviousIt has always been illegal to imprison without trialTo ignore habeas corpusOr to gaol someone for not breaking a lawAlas and alack!This has been doneIn Australia’s sordid past and continues todayWhat’s all the fuss thenAbout criminals set free to obey aContinue reading “More Elderly Melodies”

Silent Violence A penny for the old guy. T S Eliot: The Hollow MenAll that is needed for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Author Unknown. Listen! Listen! Do you hear, my Dear?Listen! Listen! Is it the silence you fear? Did you see the old guy begging for your penny?Did you,Continue reading “Only One”

Lies For Sale How cunning they areExploiting human weakness for profitSo images of people guzzling fleshy foodAre visible oftenTo stir your taste buds and make you spendOr flashy cars are seen endlesslySpeedingTo promote a sale for the wrong reasonsOr an attractive womanOffers a drive to an eligible maleAnd sexuality leads to a purchaseOr Simple SimonContinue reading “Yet More Serious Thoughts”

Pathway To Hell Revenge is in the airPunishment for a hostile act that killsNothing will be allowed to stand in the wayOf your revengeEvery foe must goWipe the slate cleanCivilians are no problemThey are part of the inevitable nemesisChildren too,Thousands in numberFor they are placed by destiny on the other sideRight is mightIn this warContinue reading “Still More Serious Thoughts”