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๐…๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ญ

26 Wednesday Apr 2023

Posted by Dennis N. O'Brien in Observation, War

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AUKUS alliance, Australian poet, Formal poetry, Neutral Australia, poem, poetry

๐…๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ญ

Forget them all โ€” theyโ€™ve gone to Hell.

Old cherished friends? Theyโ€™ve gone as well.

Forget alliances with fools

Whoโ€™ve broken all the golden rules.

Forget old comrades, they are dead.

Forget the past, and all they said.

Cut off the chains โ€” lest pull us down

These pirates when their galleys drown.

Yes, free us from the deathly grip

Of foreign armour, plane, and ship.

Weโ€™ve paid the price for their mistakes;

Cast off these phonies โ€” they are fakes!

They are not what they were before:

They talk of peace, but whisper: โ€œwarโ€.

Trust not in liars โ€” trust our sea;

Prepare for our neutrality.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ

17 Monday Apr 2023

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Australian poet, First Nations, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, Triolet

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ย ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ

First Nations? So how were these states defined?

By boundaries, by government, by laws?

By hordes and bands and tribes all intertwined?

First Nations? So how were these states defined?

By armies forcefully? By treaties signed?

By victories hard-won in bloody wars?

 First Nations? So how were these states defined?

By boundaries, by government, by laws?

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐’๐จ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐€๐ง๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ

11 Tuesday Apr 2023

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Australian poet, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, Soviet Union

๐’๐จ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐€๐ง๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ

The Soviets destroyed nobility.

The savages rose up to take control โ€”

Harnessed the rest to serve futility;

And twenty million was the final toll.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐…๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐…๐จ๐ซ…….?

10 Friday Mar 2023

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Albo - Anthony Abanese Australian PM, Australian poet, Drag Queens in schools, Formal poetry, National Disability Insurance Scheme, poem, poetry

๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ย ๐…๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ย ๐…๐จ๐ซ…….?

Weโ€™re fighting for the bastards bound for Hell.

Weโ€™re fighting for the drones who cannot spell.

Weโ€™re fighting for the men whoโ€™ll never work.

Weโ€™ll fight as hard as we once fought the Turk.

The N.D.I.S.? Yes weโ€™ll fight for that!

Weโ€™ll fight for every filthy scheming rat!

Weโ€™ll fight for gay parades in Sydney Town!

(Where Albo should have worn a pretty gown…)

Weโ€™ll fight so that our kids can hug drag queens,

And so they can watch pornographic scenes.

Weโ€™ll fight for those who rewrite history,

But fight against religious mystery.

Weโ€™ll fight with enemies, against our friends.

Weโ€™ll fight against whatโ€™s right โ€” until it ends.

Weโ€™ll heed the call, and off to war weโ€™ll go,

To fight for all the things that bring us low.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐’๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐“๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก

09 Thursday Mar 2023

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Australian poet, Formal poetry, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Nord Stream Pipeline, Occam's Razor, poem, poetry

๐’๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ย ๐“๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก

Confused by the spin and the lies?

Youโ€™ll find Occamโ€™s Razor applies:

Look at motive and means.

Look at who spilled the beans.

Then itโ€™s simple: the Yanks did it guys.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐ƒ๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ

26 Sunday Feb 2023

Posted by Dennis N. O'Brien in Observation, Satire, Triolet

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Australian poet, Formal poetry, Nord Stream Pipeline, poem, poetry, Triolet, U.S. blows up Nordstream gas pipeline

๐ƒ๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ

The Swedes know who blew up the gas pipeline.

But who it was, the Swedes they cannot say.

But having dived into the Baltic brine,

The Swedes know who blew up the gas pipeline.

Of them spilling the beans there is no sign โ€”

Theyโ€™re hoping that it all just goes away.

The Swedes know who blew up the gas pipeline.

But who it was, the Swedes they cannot say.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

It’s God’s Truth

08 Sunday Jan 2023

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Australian poet, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, Western Decline

๐—œ๐˜โ€™๐˜€  ๐—š๐—ผ๐—ฑโ€™๐˜€  ๐—ง๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ต

I went unto the playing fields to check upon our youth.

I went and saw the conquered and I uttered quietly: โ€œStruth!โ€

I searched in vain for brave young men; I searched but few could see.

I watched the heroes of each sport go down upon one knee.

I listened to the commentariat, their words so barmy.

I came back home and wrote this down: โ€œWe couldnโ€™t raise an armyโ€.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

Fools Rush In

04 Sunday Jul 2021

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Australian poet, Australian traditional poetry, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet

Fools Rush In

Into the void now left, (for God is dead),

Flow swiftly, weird beliefs and strange ideas.

To fill the vacuumed space within each head,

Advance the cults and creeds of crazy seers;

Of Eastern mystics, deviants, and queers.

The ancient faith is now consigned to trash,

As rise once more the superstitious fears.

Cathedrals and their icons burn to ash,

As statues of old heroes fall and smash.

But history will warn โ€” so itโ€™s wiped clean,

And those whoโ€™d dare remind us feel the lash.

The frightened masses fear to intervene,

As evil men are uplifted and praised,

And massive monuments to madness raised.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

A Reasonable God

29 Tuesday Jun 2021

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Australian poet, Australian traditional poetry, Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Formal poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet

A Reasonable God

โ€œSo soon belief will end and leave a void;

A godless empty placeโ€, the thinker said.

โ€œWhen all the faiths that filled it are destroyed,

And all that they stood for is cold and dead.โ€

And so the writer, with a sense of dread,

Foretold how men would kill their deities.

Would have no need of them โ€” their daily bread

Would still be theirs; thereโ€™d be no need to please

Imagined gods; to fall down on their knees

And pray to empty space; was scienceโ€™s turn

To rule the minds of men. The poles would freeze;

The tides would rise and fall, the sun would burn;

No gods or their fair angels would be missed.

The new God, Science, would rule with an iron fist.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐

24 Thursday Jun 2021

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Australian poet, Australian traditional poetry, Civil War, Disunity, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet

๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐

Itโ€™s obvious; the split is now too wide.

There is no chance such gaping wounds can heal.

There is no common ground โ€” a stark divide;

No compromise; no way to cut a deal.

But stay united for the common weal?

Forget it โ€” that would surely end in woe.

A separation will a truth reveal โ€”

That old one โ€” all will reap but what they sow.

For oneโ€™s intent is high, the otherโ€™s low;

And natureโ€™s laws suggest the first will win.

Itโ€™s time to end this endless to and fro;

The union must now take it on the chin.

The best outcome would be a swift divorce;

A civil warโ€™s unthinkable of course.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

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