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๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ-๐——๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป! ๐—ข๐—ฟ?

10 Monday Apr 2023

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Australian poet, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet

๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ-๐——๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป! ๐—ข๐—ฟ?

Lock-down! Raise up the drawbridge, bolt the doors!

A tiny army marches from the East!

Weโ€™re in for the most virulent of wars โ€”

A million billion casualties at least!

This microscopic foe expects to feast

Upon the huddled masses of the West.

But we will stay locked-down till he has ceased

His dirty depredations โ€” till this pest

Has gone back to the oriental nest

Whence he did spring. Behind our walls weโ€™ll hide,

A great and noble sacrifice! A test!

A dreadful siege, an enemy defied!

Alternatively, live โ€” ignore distortions;

Remembering to take all due precautions.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐†๐ข๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐’๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ฌ โ€œ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐ƒ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฒ!โ€

21 Tuesday Mar 2023

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Australian poet, Formal poetry, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, Rise of China


๐“๐ก๐ž ย ๐†๐ข๐š๐ง๐ญ ย ๐’๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ฌ โ€œ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ย ๐ƒ๐š๐ซ๐ž ย ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฒ!โ€

How dare the Chinese grow so strong!

Fe fi fo! Fe fi fo! Fe fong!

Diminutive race!

They should know their place!

China number one? Thatโ€™s so wrong!

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐๐ฎ๐› ๐’๐ฎ๐› ๐’๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ

15 Wednesday Mar 2023

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AUKUS, Australian poet, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, U.S. and U.K. sell subs to Australia

๐๐ฎ๐›  ๐’๐ฎ๐›  ๐’๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ

An incontinent man with a second hand sub,

And a dwarf and a drongo, walked into a pub.

There three stools did they take, sat and breasted the bar,

And the man flashed the sub, said:โ€Iโ€™ve more in the car.โ€

Then the midget piped up:โ€I have new ones to sell!โ€

Said the drongo:โ€Iโ€™m sold! Wrap the old ones as well!โ€

Now the drongo we know is an Australian clown,

And the midget resembles a prune with a frown.

And then last but not least, the incontinent man

Having sold off some subs looks in vain for the can.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐Œ๐จ๐›๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž

13 Monday Mar 2023

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Australian poet, Formal poetry, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Moby Dick, Nord Stream Pipeline, poem, poetry

๐Œ๐จ๐›๐ฒ ย ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ย ๐Œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž

The latest theory has been hatched,

Of how the pipeline was despatched:

That to keep the Krauts cold

Those damned Russians, weโ€™re told,

Sent a whale with explosives attached.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐งโ€™๐ฌ ๐Ž๐›๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐‚๐ก๐จ๐ข๐œ๐ž

07 Tuesday Mar 2023

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

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Acts of War, Australian poet, Formal poetry, limerick, Limerick poem, Nord Stream Pipeline, poem, poetry, U.S. blows up Nord Stream2

๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐งโ€™๐ฌ ย ๐Ž๐›๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ย ๐‚๐ก๐จ๐ข๐œ๐ž

โ€œI can turn off those valvesโ€ Putin said,

โ€œSo no gas to the Germans is fed.

Itโ€™s the simplest of jobs โ€”

Just a twist of some knobs;

But Iโ€™ll blow up our pipeline instead.โ€

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐–๐ž ๐๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ ๐Œ๐ž๐๐ฏ๐ž๐

03 Friday Mar 2023

Posted by Dennis N. O'Brien in Historical, Satire

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Australian poet, Eastern Front WW2, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, Russian Bear, Syrian Campaign ww2, WW2


๐–๐ž ย ๐๐ž๐ ย ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ย ๐‘๐ž๐ ย ๐Œ๐ž๐๐ฏ๐ž๐


(At an Australian Field Hospital in the Lebanon, June โ€™41)


The wounded soldier on his bed

(He came quite close to being dead)

Lights with a flaring match a fag,

Then reads the headlines of the rag:

โ€˜Of Russia We Must All Beware!โ€™

โ€˜We Cannot Trust the Russian Bear!โ€™

Next morn the paperโ€™s passed around,

And laughter is a frequent sound.

It seems the Reds have joined the war,

And on our side; the rag therefore

Now prints the headlines staid and wise:

โ€˜Behold Our Glorious Allies!โ€™

โ€˜Great Holy Russia Joins Our Cause!โ€™

So goes the course of paper wars.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐”๐ค๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐žโ€™๐ฌ ๐Œ๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ

28 Tuesday Feb 2023

Posted by Dennis N. O'Brien in Satire, Sonnet, War

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Australian poet, AZOV, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, Russo / Ukraine war, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, Zelensky

๐”๐ค๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐žโ€™๐ฌ  ๐Œ๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ

Pariah of the past, but now transformed

Into the sweetest state that one could find.

The neo-Nazi nation is reformed,

Unrecognizable, one of a kind;

AZOV atrocities left far behind.

Yes itโ€™s a miracle, this new Ukraine โ€”

Itโ€™s now by those who loathed it wined and dined!

It is a mystery, one racks oneโ€™s brain

To come up with a theory to explain

How such a lump of shit became a jewel.

A noble Abel where was once a Cain!

Whatโ€™s more, its leader who once played the fool,

The idiot, the joker, and the queer,

Is now the shining knight who knows no fear.

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

๐Ž๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐›๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐“๐ฐ๐š๐ญ

20 Monday Feb 2023

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Australia Day Awards, Australian poet, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, Triolet

๐Ž๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ  ๐จ๐Ÿ  ๐›๐ž๐ข๐ง๐   ๐š  ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ง๐ญ  ๐“๐ฐ๐š๐ญ

Compliant twats are being decorated.

Each one will get a shiny piece of brass.

The devious, the fools, the overrated โ€”

Compliant twats are being decorated.

For their collaboration compensated,

For blindly taking it right up the arse.

Compliant twats are being decorated.

Each one will get a shiny piece of brass.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

๐†๐š๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐’๐ฎ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐๐ž

18 Saturday Feb 2023

Posted by Dennis N. O'Brien in Humour, Satire, Sonnet

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Australian poet, Formal poetry, Nord Stream Pipeline, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet

๐†๐š๐ฌ  ๐ƒ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ  ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž  ๐ญ๐จ  ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ  ๐’๐ฎ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐๐ž

It seems the pipeline blew itself to bits.

The Baltic Sea is a depressing place.

The pipeline basically just got the shits

With lying on the bottom with the plaice โ€”

Another day of boredom could not face.

The gas cramping its bowels it could not vent,

For as it did, from Russia more would race,

And thus the pipelineโ€™s dire predicament.

And so by an explosion it was rent,

And all accused the Russians โ€” well of course!

While silent lay the pipeline, torn and bent

And lifeless, ruptured by internal force.

The U.S. did it? What a load of rot!

Relief came from a self-inflicted shot.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

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