Time Bomb

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Australian poet, cause and effect, Civilizational decline in the West, Dysfunctional systems, Formal poetry, Logic and reason, poem, poetry, Societies in decline, Subversion, Triolet

Time Bomb

The time-bomb we have made must be disarmed,
Before the damned thing blows us all to Hell!
Before they wake — before they get alarmed,
The time-bomb we have made must be disarmed.
We saboteurs thought we’d escape unharmed!
But now it seems that we’ll be killed as well!
The time-bomb we have made must be disarmed,
Before the damned thing blows us all to Hell!

— D.N. O’Brien

Reversal

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Australian poet, Civilizational decline in the West, Historical revisionism, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, poem, poetry, Postmodernism, Revisionism, Socialism, sonnet

Reversal

The time has come to watch the old ways fall,
As from the bottom rises what once fell –
What has decayed and has decay’s sweet smell.
What once loomed large will shrink until it’s small,
And lowest things will rise to be the tall.
And thick will float the flotsam on the swell,
As downward sink the sainted souls to Hell.
The oldest lies will be believed by all.
Past heroes will be vilest villains now.
All once thought right will surely now be wrong.
The noble and their courage men will curse,
As those once brave down to the cowards bow.
Admired will be the weak – reviled the strong,
And what was true will be quite the reverse.

– D.N. O’Brien

Bad Body Image

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Australian poet, Body Politic, Civilizational decline in the West, democracy, Formal poetry, poem, poetry, politics

Bad Body Image

It’s not just politicians, friends;
They’ve always worked to their own ends.
You wonder what is tired and sick?
It is the body politic.

Distant Drums

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Australian poet, Civilizational decline in the West, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Neo Marxists, poem, poetry, The radical Left

If you’re a straight guy and you’re white,
Better teach all your boys how to fight.
For the world’s on the slide.
There’ll be no place to hide
When they finally come for the Right.