Filling the Vacuum

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Aristotle, Atheism, Australian poet, Baal, Formal poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, God is Dead, Odin, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Zeus

Filling the Vacuum

“God is dead.” So Nietzsche’s often quoted.
The atheists will say that’s what he said.
And he did, but it should too be noted
That Nietzsche said it with a sense of dread —
That we had killed Him — it was on our head
He laid the blame. And what, he asked, what thing
Replaces murdered gods, gods cold and dead?
The bells in church towers will no longer ring,
And all those hymns? Why will the choirs still sing
Of Him, when He no longer is of use?
A fallen deity, a banished king,
Devoid of power, like Baal, Odin, or Zeus.
And Nature does an empty space abhor —
Rush in, the gods of mammon and of war.

— D.N. O’Brien

Zeus the Climate Changer

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Ancient Greek Gods, Ancient Greek Mythology, Anthropogenic Climate Change scam, Australian poet, climate change, Palaeocene, poem, poetry, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, Warm Palaeocene Epoch, Zeus

𝐙𝐞𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫

The climate? What a pack of stupid fools!
They think that they affect it? The idea!
At my command it either heats or cools.
From here on high Olympus do I steer
The clouds, the winds! They say the atmosphere
Has too much CO2 — a load of rot!
Computer models? Dear, oh dear, oh dear.
They think the climate simple? Well it’s not!
In winter it is cold — in summer hot!
In autumn and in spring it’s in between!
They think that’s simple? Are they smoking pot?
Can they explain the warm Palaeocene?
I’d best calm down; I need to cool my rage.
I wonder how they’d handle an Ice Age?

— D.N. O’Brien

The New Diverse and Inclusive Iliad

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Achilles, affirmative action, Australian poet, Australian traditional poetry, BBC Fall of a City, BBC left bias, Fall of a City, Historical accuracy, Historical revisionism, Leftist controlled BBC, Leftist propaganda, Patroclus, poem, poetry, Political Correctness, Rewriting history, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, The Iliad, Zeus

The BBC will seize any excuse
To push their sad agenda – in this show
They portray Patroclus, Achilles, Zeus,
As being black – a shock, a numbing blow
To Greeks. Their Iliad, a tale of woe,
Of heroes, champions and baleful war,
They love, and well its tragedy they know:
The battles on the plain, the blood and gore,
The siege of Troy. So how to then ignore
This dark development, this loathsome lie,
This mangling of the myth, this fatal flaw?
Achilles, the white Greek – he’s a black guy?
Patroklas too, and Zeus! Which one’s the worst?
They should have run the cast by Homer first.

First look at Troy: Fall of a City – it’s fit for a king