๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ค๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ฌ
Initially his aim was to deceive,
But in his product he would soon believe.
โ D.N. OโBrien
27 Thursday Feb 2020
Posted Satire
in๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ค๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ฌ
Initially his aim was to deceive,
But in his product he would soon believe.
โ D.N. OโBrien
26 Wednesday Feb 2020
Posted Satire
in๐๐๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
The girls will soon be flying us around,
With half the pilots of the fairer sex.
If they can get their planes up off the ground,
The girls will soon be flying us around.
Sex quotas work, so near the speed of sound,
Their passengers will gladly risk their necks.
The girls will soon be flying us around,
With half the pilots of the fairer sex.
โ D.N. OโBrien
25 Tuesday Feb 2020
Posted Observation, Satire
inTags
Activist CEOs, Activist corporate boards, Australian poet, Corporations, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, Socialist corporate boards, Triolet
Social Capital
Most corporations are now on the nose,
And trying to be all things to all men โ
Theyโre suffering from self-inflicted blows.
Most corporations are now on the nose,
For socialists are now their CEOs.
Should one invest in corporations when
Most corporations are now on the nose,
And trying to be all things to all men?
โ D.N. OโBrien
23 Sunday Feb 2020
Posted Observation
inTags
Australian poet, Decline of the West, democracy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, poem, poetry, Triolet
๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐
I fear that Nietzsche may have got it right:
Democracies will decompose to dust.
I read his thoughts, I slept, then woke in fright!
I fear that Nietzsche may have got it right โ
His prophecy that that which shone so bright,
Will tarnish over time and turn to rust.
I fear that Nietzsche may have got it right:
Democracies will decompose to dust.
โ D.N. OโBrien
17 Monday Feb 2020
Posted Historical, Observation, Sonnet
inTags
Ancient Greek colonies, Australian poet, Colonialism, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet
๐๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ
The first ones clustered round the central seas.
From city states the ancient Greeks they came.
On foreign shores they founded colonies,
And to each settlement they gave their name.
They set their sails to conquer and find fame,
To spread Hellenic culture to the Earth;
Barbarians they thought it right to tame,
For their crude ways they thought of lesser worth.
And so of colonies we see the birth โ
Of how the thinkers sent abroad their thoughts.
Of how they sought Poseidonโs realms to girth.
These frogs around the ponds no doubt had warts;
But had the Greeks not spread their wisdom wide;
Before their birth โ what wonders may have died?
โ D.N. OโBrien
13 Thursday Feb 2020
Posted Observation, Satire, Sonnet
inInnocent Issues
When have we dropped as far as we can go?
When have we reached the bottom of the well?
When have the western nations sunk so low,
They can but rise, or else descend to Hell.
Is there a warning? Does there ring a bell?
No, but the signs are clear to open eyes โ
The crimes committed and the burning smell
Of flesh that is our own, but never cries โ
That bursts into the light and quickly dies.
Yet for this damned destruction do we weep?
Oh no, we cloak the crime with smiles and lies.
We gladly sow, then prematurely reap.
We pull from fertile earth the sprouting seeds,
And then discard them, as one would with weeds.
โ D.N. OโBrien
12 Wednesday Feb 2020
Posted Bush Poetry, Nature, Observation, Sonnet
inTags
Ancient man, australian aboriginal, Australian Aboriginal laws, Australian bush poetry, Australian poet, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, Stone age man, Taboo, totems and taboos, Tribal societies
Taboo
You ask me, how on earth did he survive
For many centuries? Well hereโs a clue:
For more than needed, never did he strive.
His little wealth he carried, his needs few.
He stuck to the old ways and nothing new
Would he allow. So for thousands of years
He didnโt change โ for change it was taboo.
Paralysis by superstitious fears โ
This saved him. Round the fire at night wise seers
Would tell the dreamtime myths โ his history,
Unquestioned by his trusting eyes and ears.
And thus did he remain fearful, not free.
Bound tight by rigid rules that would not bend,
His world would stay unchanged โ else it would end.
โ D.N. OโBrien
11 Tuesday Feb 2020
Posted Satire
in๐๐จ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ
The foul-mouthed McEnroe shows no respect,
And gay old girls support his foolish words.
From such a brat itโs what you would expect โ
The foul-mouthed McEnroe shows no respect.
The tennis bosses to him genuflect โ
They must display their virtue to the herds.
The foul-mouthed McEnroe shows no respect,
And gay old girls support his foolish words.
โ D.N. OโBrien
10 Monday Feb 2020
Posted Observation
inEmotionists
Theyโre the ones that democracy dreads,
More than Marxists or other such reds.
They are slaves to emotions,
And misplaced devotions โ
They vote with their hearts, not their heads.
โ D. N. OโBrien
06 Thursday Feb 2020
Posted Satire
inTrying Hard
The same-sex couple just recently wed,
Are trying hard to start a family.
They spend a lot of time tucked up in bed โ
The same-sex couple just recently wed.
Some helpful books they have rabidly read โ
Followed instructions โ now they wait and see.
The same-sex couple just recently wed,
Are trying hard to start a family.
โ D.N. OโBrien