A Present Peril

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

𝐀 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐥

We are their avowed enemies,
Yet we do and we say as we please.
From our numerous spires
We call out: “Stoke the fires!”
While they worry about the Chinese.

— D.N. O’Brien

Yesterday

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Australian poet, ChiCom, Chinese Communist Party, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, WuFlu crisis

𝐘𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲

The ChiComs are bad? Ya don’t say!
But they were our pals yesterday!
In those recent times
We knew of their crimes,
But smiled and looked the other way.

— D.N. O’Brien

The Viral Solution

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Australian poet, bats, Covid19 crisis, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, Viruses, WuFlu crisis

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

They are basically aerial rats,
And they plaster the world with their scats.
They are full of disease,
And they do as they please.
I suggest we exterminate bats.

— D.N. O’Brien

Wrong Way! Go Back!

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Australian poet, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, WuFlu lock-down

𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐲! 𝐆𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤!

We’re safely locked-down in our houses.
(We all know who now wears the trousers)
We’re up that foul creek,
Indebted and weak,
And led by a bunch of girl’s blouses.

— D.N. O’Brien

Scaredy Cats

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Anti-nuclear Australia, Australian poet, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Nuclear Power, Nuclear-powered submarines, Nuclear-powered warships, poem, poetry

𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐬

Scared stiff is our normal condition.
We’re frightened of nuclear fission.
No atom we’ll split —
We’d rather eat shit!
We’ll take no realistic position.

— D.N. O’Brien

Broad Swords

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Australian poet, Cossack, Kuban Cossacks, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry

𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐒𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬

I once knew a Kuban Cossack,
And she always led the attack.
Her sabres she’d twirl,
And though just a girl,
Sword-fighting skills she didn’t lack.

— D.N. O’Brien

Cossack Girl

Kim Jong Kaput

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Australian poet, Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-un heart surgery, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, North Korea, poem, poetry

𝗞𝗶𝗺 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗮𝗽𝘂𝘁

We regret to inform North Korea,
End of Glorious Leader is near.
Chinese Covid-19,
Though it spared his fat spleen,
Broke his heart — or so it would appear.

— D.N. O’Brien

The Waiting Wog

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Australian poet, Covid-19, Covid-19 lock-down, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, WuFlu crisis

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐠

Big Brother the masses is guiding,
As in their safe spaces they’re hiding.
But come out they must
When settles the dust.
The virus, its time it is biding.

— D.N. O’Brien

As Simple as ABC

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ABC, ABC bias, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian poet, Left wing media, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry

𝐀𝐬 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐀𝐁𝐂

To the young and converted they preach.
There are few who their sermons don’t reach.
Minds they shape with the dough
That they take from their foe.
“We are balanced and fair!” — loud they screech.

I avoid “their” ABC like I avoid the plague (even the present one) but I am forced to listen to ABC radio once a week while prisoner of my acupuncturist — pinned down, so to speak. He’s Chinese by the way (boy, aren’t they copping some flack) and assures me that he also hates the ABC, but I have my doubts as he always has the bastards on — maybe he’s a masochist — I know he’s a torturer.

It’s really a shame the way this once great organization has fallen. I grew up with the ABC — I used to love it. I guess it was pretty much to the left even back then, but I suppose it had more class collectively than to blatantly push its lefty ideas. Now it has gone way too far down the far-left well-beaten track to ever return. It’s very feminine I noticed (except for some of their female presenters of course); very soft and squishy and fluffy and loving and caring — at least on the surface; it drips feminism, and masculinity is nowhere to be found.

Judging by the last federal election, around half of the tax-payers who fund the ABC could be fairly described as to the right, and yet “their” ABC is a conservative-free zone; the presenters are all lefties and they pretty much only interview lefties and get lefty opinions — unless of course they decide to set up a hit job on some naive conservative who should know better than to trespass onto their turf. They hate Trump and Boris of course and love Jacinda — the former president of the International Union of Socialist Youth.

Overall it is a sad story: a national broadcaster (if one is needed at all) should of course represent all to as high a degree as possible; but it seems to me that the ABC has an insurmountable problem: many of its presenters and presumably its management really believe that they are right — that they are of the virtuous left and it is their duty to get that message of enlightenment out there.

The ABC is beyond saving — it can’t be transformed back into its former self. I’m not sure even privatizing it would make much difference. What to do about their ABC? There’s no simple solution.

— D.N. O’Brien

The Waiting War

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Australian poet, Covid19 crisis, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, WuFlu, WuFlu lock-down

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐫

Getting paid not to fight! This is sweet!
In our trenches the war drums we beat.
We will never attack.
Let him pillage and sack!
We will wait till the foe sounds retreat.

— D.N. O’Brien