Israel

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Australian poet, islam, Israel, Israel Folau, Middle East, poem, poetry, Rugby Australia, Triolet

𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥

Your enemies, your fortress they surround.
So you must hone your wits, plan your defence;
Make sure your strategies are sure and sound.
Your enemies, your fortress they surround;
So be prepared to hold your precious ground,
And then attack, to gain your recompense.
Your enemies, your fortress they surround;
So you must hone your wits, plan your defence.

— D.N. O’Brien

Here Comes Trouble

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Australian traditional poetry, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, Middle East, poem, poetry, Syria

They arrive on a ship, plane or bus
With their baggage of ignorance, thus
There’s no need now to travel
To parts that unravel –
The Middle East’s coming to us.

Wacky War

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ISIS, Levant, Libya, Middle East, poem, poetry, Yemen

One couldn’t make this up – I’m sure –
This Middle Eastern wacky war,
As ISIS like a blood stain spreads
And in its wake leaves heaps of heads
In Libya and in the Levant.
As in The West the liberals chant:
“Lone wolves, they are, who’d do us harm.
They’ve no connection to Islam.”
The Russians smile and lift the ban
On missiles for their friend Iran.
Iraqis from the fighting fly,
While Christians and Yazidis die.
The Turks don’t even try to hide
Support for this new genocide.
The U.S. doesn’t seem to care
(It’s way way way way over there)
Iran to Yemen sends its ships.
Obama swivels his snake hips.
His faulty strokes he has to stop;
No more hard hitting from the top –
Sliced balls! – it’s for straight shots he yearns.
The Fertile Crescent bakes and burns

Arab Springtime on my Mind

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Middle East, poem, poetry

It’s springtime in the Middle East
And all hostilities have ceased,
Although those chaps in Syria
Are getting somewhat wearier,
And ISIS (now Islamic State)
Spreads like a cloud of insane hate;
They’re killing Sheiites every day.
(Sometimes the Kurds get in their way)
They’re chopping heads off left and right,
(These peaceful Muslims like to fight)
While down in Gaza Israel strikes,
And tells Hamas: “Get on yer bikes!
We’ll blow your tunnels all to bits,
You terrorists get on our tits!”
Yes spring is in the desert air.
The Arab Spring is everywhere.
The Middle East is bursting out.
There’s lots of murder all about.