The Prize Fighters

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2020 US Presidential Election, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, limerick, poem, poetry

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬

The Donald and ol’ Sleepy Joe,
They battle it out toe to toe.
The Don screams: “You sook!”
Then throws a right hook.
Joe blocks it, then lands a low blow!

Poor Donald’s been punched down below.
Moves in for the kill, Sleepy Joe —
Left hook — Donald ducks.
Ol’ Joe exclaims: “Shucks!”
As into the ring comes his hoe.

She laughs as she takes off her pearls,
Then a ripping right Harris hurls —
It’s wild and it’s wide! Whoa!
It flattens her mate Joe!
Trump says: “Sadly, I don’t fight girls.”

— D.N. O’Brien

The Inselberg

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Ayre's Rock, Central Australia, Inselberg, poem, poetry

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠

I am a rock surrounded by a plain

Swept by the desert winds — a little rain

Falls on me — down my flanks it flows like tears.

I’ve rested on this plain a million years.

About me there is little mystery:

I once was sand beneath a sparkling sea —

I turned to rock, I hardened into stone,

Then by gigantic force I rose alone;

Was thrust upward while all else sank below;

But all of that is now so long ago.

Came lately creatures made of flesh and bone,

Then men who killed them with my brother stone.

To them my body was of little worth,

For little lived upon my hardened earth.

Came then the men who climbed upon my back;

But they no longer tread that well-worn track.

It seems the first ones now claim me as theirs —

The first one to the prize — with none he shares.

But I care not what mere men lose or gain;

I have a heart of stone — I feel no pain.

— D.N. O’Brien

Freckles Needs More than a Pretty Face

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Anastasia Palaszczuk, Deb Frecklington, Freckles Frecklington, Labor Party, Liberal National party, Queensland State Election 2020

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐬  𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬  𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞  𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧  𝐚  𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞

Forgettable Freckles is stunning.

For plain Palaszczuk she is gunning.

Though she is quite pretty,

And likeable — witty,

It’s for second place she is running.

— D.N. O’Brien

Power of the Penn

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Green New Deal, Joe Biden & Kamala Harris, limerick, Pennsylvania oil and gas, poem, poetry

𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫  𝐨𝐟  𝐭𝐡𝐞  𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐧

Kamala and Joe are attacking!

They intend to ban oil, gas, and fracking!

Part of their Green New Deal,

And their fate it will seal —

Pennsylvania will send them packing.

— D.N. O’Brien

https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/maps/interactive-map-oil-and-gas-wells-pennsylvania

Trump the non-politician

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Donald Trump, Joe Biden, poem, poetry, Triolet, U.S. Presidential Election 2020

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩  𝐭𝐡𝐞  𝐧𝐨𝐧–𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧

He’s not a politician — that’s the point!

He isn’t a trained liar like old Joe.

If you want cunning, Trump will disappoint —

He’s not a politician — that’s the point.

He’s trying hard to straighten out the joint;

And he’s not bent — he doesn’t need the dough.

He’s not a politician — that’s the point!

He isn’t a trained liar like old Joe.

— D.N. O’Brien

An Eye for an Eye

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Australian poet, Jacinda Ardern, Labour wins in NZ, limerick, New Zealand election, poem, poetry, Signals Intelligence, The Five Eyes

From Wikipedia:

“The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand,

The United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are parties to the

Multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in Signals Intelligence”

𝐀𝐧  𝐄𝐲𝐞  𝐟𝐨𝐫  𝐚𝐧  𝐄𝐲𝐞

They’ve voted for their own demise.

They’ll be but a gateway for spies.

Behaved as expected,

So must be ejected —

Five Eyes must become just Four Eyes.

— D.N. O’Brien

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/17/breaking-arderns-labour-party-wins-new-zealand-election

Green Eyes

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Australian poet, Donald Trump, female jealousy, Melania Trump, poem, Poetry algorithm, Triolet

𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧  𝐄𝐲𝐞𝐬

I wonder why the ladies don’t like Trump?

(He has a gorgeous wife and he is rich)

Melania is neither plain nor plump —

I wonder why the ladies don’t like Trump?

(He does prefer a shapely female rump)

Could it be jealousy? — It’s such a bitch!

I wonder why the ladies don’t like Trump?

(He has a gorgeous wife and he is rich)

— D.N. O’Brien

The Slave

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Australian poet, poem, poetry, Slave mentality, Triolet

𝐓𝐡𝐞  𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞

Why would one choose to be a shackled slave?

The answer: that is how the slave’s mind works.

With life so short from cradle to the grave,

Why would one choose to be a shackled slave?

He fears the world, so freedom he’ll not crave;

For danger around every corner lurks.

Why would one choose to be a shackled slave?

The answer: that is how the slave’s mind works.

— D.N. O’Brien

Unqualified Amy

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Amy Coney Barrett, Australian poet, poem, poetry, Triolet

𝐔𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝  𝐀𝐦𝐲

A wife with seven kids, and straight, and white!

And she’s prolife, conservative and fair!

What clearer symbol of the hated right? —

A wife with seven kids, and straight, and white!

Comrades rise up! Take to the streets and fight!

This is outrageous! This, we will not bear!

A wife with seven kids, and straight, and white!

And she’s prolife, conservative and fair!

— D.N. O’Brien

Fly Wins Debate!

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Harris / Pence debate, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry

𝐅𝐥𝐲  𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐬  𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐞!

A fly landed on Pence’s head.

Soon throughout the land the word spread!

Though both still debated,

The fly fascinated,

So it mattered not what they said.

— D.N. O’Brien