A Democrat Encourages the Mob

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Australian poet, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, U.S. BLM riots 2020

𝐀 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐛

I understand your need to wreck our town.
I really do, for I can feel your pain.
It isn’t fair, so smash it — burn it down!
You’ve naught to lose and everything to gain.
It’s not your fault, your wrath you can’t contain.
I fully understand why you attack
Those who have more than you — you’re not insane!
You pull a knife — they shoot you in the back!
Oh sure you’re high on fentanyl and crack;
But that is due to racism of course.
You’re tortured daily — stretched upon the rack
Of Trump’s America — that evil force!
In short, we Democrats support your hate —
So let the home fires burn — you’re doing great!

— D.N. O’Brien

The Church of Hagia Sophia

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Australian poet, Constantinople, Hagia Sophia, islam, Istanbul, Kamal Ataturk, Petrarchan sonnet, poem, poetry, President Erdogan, sonnet, Turkey

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐒𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐚

They wish to claim you as their holy place,
And so insult the name of Ataturk.
Towards a callous caliphate they work.
Thus your magnificence they would deface —
Remove the images of Christ that grace
Your ancient walls. Islamic forces lurk
Within your state. That wise and mighty Turk,
(Whose legacy these fiends wish to debase)
That founding father, would have brought them down.
But he’s long dead, and now a false Sultan
Sits on his phony throne and makes his claim.
But disregard the rantings of this clown —
Holy Cathedral, work of Western Man,
You’ll stay a church in everything but name.

— D.N. O’Brien

𝐍𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐮𝐭𝐬

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Australian poet, Chips on shoulders, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, Racial hatred, resentment, U.S. BLM riots 2020

𝐍𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐮𝐭𝐬

On my shoulder a large chip I bear,
And I scream at the world: “It’s not fair!”

But your chip you embrace,
For the facts you’ll not face.
I suggest that you just, “grow a pair.”

— D.N. O’Brien

The Reactionary Someone

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Australian poet, BLM riots, BLM shootings, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry

The Reactionary Someone

When someone’s pursued by a pack
Of rioters screaming “attack!”
When someone is chased,
A fact must be faced —
That someone is bound to fire back.

— D.N. O’Brien

Dear Leader

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Australian poet, Dan Andrews Premier of Victoria, Dictators, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Megalomania, poem, poetry, State of Disaster declared in Victoria, Victoria Australia, Victoriastan

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

Megalomaniac Dan,
He rules in Victoriastan.
He’s a regulator.
A home-grown dictator.
A Stalinist goon with no plan!

— D.N. O’Brien

Deicide

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Australian poet, Australian traditional poetry, Übermensch, Beyond Good and Evil, Deicide, Frederick Nietzsche, God is Dead, Nihilism, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, The Gay Science, the Superman, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

There isn’t enough water to wash clean
The evidence of murder — all the blood.
The body, once in white, stripped and obscene;
This One, this fashioner of fire and flood,
Who moulded us from cold primeval mud;
We’ve pierced His heart with science’s shining blade —
No longer will we hear its mighty thud.
The steady beat of ages soon will fade
As in his grave the slain Creator’s laid.
And with what laws will we His laws replace?
And by whom will morality be made?
Who will bestow upon the people grace?
You say, within, these virtues must be found;
But Supermen are thin upon the ground.

— D.N. O’Brien

Empathetic Michelle

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Australian poet, Michelle Obama, poem, poetry, Triolet

𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞

Michelle Obama’s blessed with empathy;
She’s not at all a scheming racist witch!
And all those who have heard her would agree,
Michele Obama’s blessed with empathy.
(To hear her speak they’ve paid a handsome fee.)
No matter that she’s privileged and rich,
Michelle Obama’s blessed with empathy!
She’s not at all a scheming racist witch!

— D.N. O’Brien

Insiders

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Australian poet, Negative attitudes, poem, poetry, Self destruction, Self-defeating thoughts, Triolet, Victim mentality

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬

Stop blaming others for the way you feel;
Your enemies reside inside your head.
You wish to get back on an even keel? —
Stop blaming others for the way you feel.
Imagined wounds, you’ll find, will quickly heal,
When foes who’d thwart you are no longer fed.
Stop blaming others for the way you feel;
Your enemies reside inside your head.

— D.N. O’Brien

The Idiots

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Australian poet, Authoritarian governments, Covid-19 lock-down, Draconian laws, Gulags, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Lock-down skeptics, poem, poetry

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐬

With the government they disagree.
They are dangerous — man can’t you see?
They won’t do as they’re told!
They are far, far too bold!
Is it wise to let such fools run free?

They must be confined for their own good.
They’re a threat to the whole neighbourhood!
They must be forced to stay
In a camp far away —
Felling trees, mining coal, chopping wood.

I believe that it’s been done before,
To reactionaries who broke the law.
The new rules they must learn,
Else don’t let them return;
They’ll be prisoners — prisoners of war.

— D.N. O’Brien

Rebellious Swedes!

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Australian poet, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, No lock-down in Sweden, poem, poetry, Swedish response to Covid-19

𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬!

They are known for their glumness and gloom —
Scandinavian prophets of doom.
So it’s strange now to say
That they went their own way —
They’re that damned elephant in the room.

— D.N. O’Brien