16 Thursday Aug 2018
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Australian poet, CIA, John Brennan, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, Spies, Top secret clearance
Secrets
Would you trust your plans to a spy?
A man who’d betray your trust – why?
Would you let him see
Your secrets – not me!
Don’t trust an untrustworthy guy.
15 Wednesday Aug 2018
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poetry, poem, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Australian poet, Social media censorship, Deplatforming, Silencing dissent, Freedom of Speech, Info wars, Hate Speech
Hate Speech
“Ban him! Banish him from here!” they screech.
“We must protect the foolish ears he’ll reach!
Silence him! No one must hear
His message – for it is too clear!”
(Indeed it seems they really do hate speech).
12 Sunday Aug 2018
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Australian poet, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Miss America 2018, Miss America swimsuit, poem, poetry
The New Miss America
She’ll be plain and dumpy – that’s true;
And boring as hell through and through.
She’ll wear no bikini,
Have tits teeny weeny,
And sport a one fifty IQ.
06 Monday Aug 2018
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Araluen Queensland, Australian poet, Balkanization, Divide and Rule, Division, Formal poetry, Melbourne Australia, multiculturalism, National Identity, poem, poetry, Queensland, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, Strength in Diversity, Tribalism, Uncontrolled immigration, Victoria
I’ve just returned from Melbourne – it’s diverse!
I could have been in Europe – it’s so cool!
In fifty different languages they curse;
You’ll never find a more scattered gene pool!
I guess this happens when progressives rule –
Their progress means you can’t tell where you are!
You don’t like it? Hey man, you are a fool!
No longer do you need to travel far –
Just take a stroll – no need to drive your car –
It’s Africa! It’s Asia! – Middle East!
There’s yellow, white, and brown, and black as tar!
Humanity in all its forms – a feast!
Sad…..now I’m back in regional Queensland;
Damn! – Everyone I meet I understand.
31 Tuesday Jul 2018
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Australian poet, Bias against Trump, Donald Trump, Make America Great Again, Mass media bias, poem, poetry, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Trump success syndrome, U.S. economy booming, U.S. stock market new records
Trump Success Syndrome
Disaster! – for everything’s going so well!
And things could get better! Who knows! Who can tell!
Oh what would we give for a financial smash!
And for the stock market to stumble then crash!
For Korean peace talks to end in a mess;
There’s too much improvement – far too much success!
Trump’s kicked our Iranian friends in the nuts;
Told them to get lost! – how we hate Donald’s guts!
Sure, he gets along with that Netanyahu –
What would you expect? (we suspect Trump’s a Jew)
He’s moving our embassy, there in Israel,
To Jerusalem – and we’re hoping he’ll fail
At everything. At his proposed wall we wail –
For poor Mexicans we will go in to bat;
Their children will no doubt all vote Democrat.
Yes Trump’s a catastrophe – he never quits;
He’s driving us Democrats out of our wits.
If he keeps succeeding please pity our fate;
Here’s hoping the U.S. will never be great!
29 Sunday Jul 2018
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Australian traditional poetry, Cowardice, False assumptions, Formal poetry, Group think, Herd mentality, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Pluralistic Ignorance, poem, poetry
My opinions most people eschew.
Of my musings, supporters are few.
So such thoughts I will hide
And pronounce with false pride
What I think is the popular view.
26 Thursday Jul 2018
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“Politicians? – How can we respect them?
Of dishonesty we all suspect them.”
But you get, I’d observe,
Rulers that you deserve,
For it’s you and your like who elect them.
“The Muslims have fallen behind
Due to Islam – their thoughts are confined.”
No, I think you are wrong,
Were their intellects strong,
Towards Islam they’d not be inclined.
“Let’s ban sugar for it makes them fat!”
The self-satisfied socialist spat.
No the fat’s just a sign
Of their lives in decline.
Though it’s sad, sugar didn’t cause that.
“I’m unlucky!” the poor loser wailed.
“By bad luck I’m forever assailed!”
But as losing’s his aim
He will lose every game –
No – bad luck is not why he has failed.
“It’s my sixth and its dad’s gone away.
All these men, I just have to obey!
So it’s not due to me!”
Your bank statements….I see….
You have babies because babies pay.
20 Friday Jul 2018
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The ugliest dog – is that true?
Well I have known more than a few
With looks much more cursed.
They think that’s the worst?
They haven’t seen some that I knew.
17 Tuesday Jul 2018
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Australian poet, Facebook shadow banning, poem, poetry, Social media censorship, Social media shadow banning
Hear this, my friends in Facebook-land:
At Facebook I’ve been shadow banned!
My friends say: “Facebook we have scanned –
Where have you gone?” – I’m shadow banned!
My content counted, and my stand!
It’s groovy to be shadow banned!
Down at the beach in sparkling sand
I wrote it large: “I’m shadow banned!”
Oh what a day! It’s great, it’s grand!
At last! At last! – I’m shadow banned!
Perhaps some tiny flames I’ve fanned.
Could that be why I’m shadow banned?
But then I can’t quite understand:
I’m quite obscure, yet shadow banned?
By some computer code – so planned;
By algorithm, shadow banned.
So folks, give Zuckerberg a hand,
Plus all his pals! I’m shadow banned!
16 Monday Jul 2018
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My doctor says: “You must lose weight!
You soon will be dead at this rate!”
“Oh sure have your say –
I’ll decide what I weigh!
I’m weightless doc, and I feel great!”
