My Unwanted (Straight) Rainbow

A WordPress Straight Rainbow Header

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Australian poet, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, Wordpress rainbow header strip

My site has a colourful strip
At the top, and it gives me the pip.
I didn’t ask for it,
And frankly deplore it;
I wish I could give it the snip.

{Is this on all WordPress sites?}

Another Logical Log

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Australian poet, Congress log-jam, Donald Trump, limerick, Limerick poem, Obstructionist Democrats, poem, poetry, U.S. Immigration reform

He’s trying to clean up the mess.
He’s got to keep trying I guess.
At least he can dream;
He’ll send it downstream,
Where it will get jammed by Congress.

U.S. Immigration reform

Canada Calling

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Australian poet, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry

I’m off to the great land of snow;
Of Barenaked Ladies – Trudeau.
Of Mounties, ice-hockey;
Of peaks high and rocky,
Where moose bellow, and blizzards blow.

Where people freeze most of the year,
But are, so they say, of good cheer.
Where beavers are hairy
And grizzly bears scary.
(It’s mainly the beavers I fear.)

I’ll fit in quite well – so I’m told.
It’s much like Australia but cold.
The folk are no fatter;
Our mountains are flatter;
They’ve more maple syrup – less gold.

Yes, Canada’s calling to me,
Like that old Nelson Eddy movie.
It’s a love song I’m hearing;
Soon I will be peering
At Canada’s fine scenery.

{back in a few weeks}

First

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Australian poet, Australian traditional poetry, poem, poetry

Go forth brother and clear the way,
As you did for me when we both were young.
On your final journey you leave this day,
As the prayers are said and the bells are rung.

Long ago at the front you led,
And made as we trekked, here and there a mark,
To guide us back to a leafy bed:
A chevron white, on a tree’s brown bark.

Blaze a trail to the great unknown,
And on each trunk carve an arrowhead;
So if by then it be overgrown,
I will see the scars, and your path I’ll tread.

{In memory of Danny Allen O’Brien Warrant Officer class 1 27/04/1947 – 29/05/2016 R.I.P.}

Ye Banks and Braes – Aidan O’Brien

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Australian guitarist, Celtic Music, finger-style guitar, Guitar music, Music, Ye Banks and Braes - Aidan O'Brien

The F Word

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"F" rating for feminist movies, Australian poet, Australian traditional poetry, Feminism, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry

“F” movies – I love the idea!
How the liberal hipsters, they cheer!
With no males strong or straight,
White or macho – that’s great!
(Watch the audiences disappear)

“F” rated feminist movies

A little music just for a change – It could have been (Ulli Bögershausen)

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Acoustic guitar, Aidan O'Brien guitarist, Australian guitarist, finger-style guitar, Guitar music, It could have been, Music, Ulli Bögershausen

An Obsolete Lyric

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Australian poet, poem, poetry

[someone made me do this – they know who they are. A challenge to use 10
particular obsolete words in a poem – needs polish I know.]

In the sun’s soft rays do I apricate;
Was yestreen, my love, that I stayed up late.
‘Twill be overmorrow before I rise
When I’ll miss the gaze of your almond eyes.
Your anagapesis for me I know,
And that loss of love, it has brought me low.
Would you, from your hair, cut a golden lock,
As a memory. (for your ex-bawcock)
But I fear I sound like a blatteroon;
Like an aeolist who bays at the moon.
As a madman strolls in the midnight dew,
And with walking stick does the toads spanghew,
Now potvaliant, in the grip of drink,
Satisdiction done – into sleep I sink.

Jack’s Onboard

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Australian poet, Australian traditional poetry, Jack Nicklaus endorses Trump, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry

The best golfer God ever made.
He conquered each course with his blade.
An honourable man;
He backs Donald’s plan.
Another knight joins the crusade.

Jack Nicklaus Backs Trump