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Translated Poetry
Google intends to create a poetry translation app. Out of curiousity I used Babelfish to translate Jabberwocky to French and back again. The result is as follows – - – (My apologies to Charles Lutwidge...
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A Compendium of Bad Poetry
Many of us are familiar with the verse of the “Worst Poet Ever”, William McConnigal. What I am joyously discovering at the moment is that there were a number of other very bad poets, some of whom were...
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Two Birds
TWO BIRDS A Poem of Bahrain By @angryarabiya A daughter of human rights activist Abdulhadi Alkhawaja. One weak and tired bird turned to his beloved brother “Oh brother l am in pain, I cannot rest, I...
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Thoughts in the Middle of the Night
I haven’t written any poetry for a couple of years. Last night the dam across my words began to seep. Just a little. Sobbing in the night City sounds fading at night, In three am silence, We can just...
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A Very Dark Night
Written by a daughter of human rights activist Abdulhadi Alkhawaja and published in a series of tweets. Her baby is just one year old. By @angryarabiya Oh coward men of the dark When you break in on a...
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Hump Day Unicorn Chaser
To help you over the hump of this nasty camel of a non-Rapture week, here in a mind-cleansing image of a Unicorn. And I’ll throw in, extra, for free, something I did some time ago.
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Is The End Of Winter Near?
Wandering the back streets of Perth yesterday I spotted some activity on some newly flowering “Bottle Brush” (grevillia). The Bottle-Brush blooms attract the busiest bees. New honey for me.
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Fiery Ol’ Sol
Perth has been blanketed by smoke for around three days. The smoke is coming from lightning-caused fires in forests of the south-west. Last night as Fiery Ol’ Sol set, there was time to reflect on some...
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I Am The Fork In The Road
I AM THE FORK IN THE ROAD If people crammed chest to back Two thousand people to the kilometre I am half a million people from town Totally alone in the startling silence Too far for anyone to hear my...
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Dawn in Bunbury
Silent streets beneath a still dark sky Family groups walking in ones and twos Quietly gathering in tens and hundreds yes, in their thousands. All patiently waiting for the dawn. Before the guarded,...
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Archy Returns; The Thoughts of a Cockroach
Way back in the 1920′s a newspaper columnist named Don Marquis had a cockroach in his office. Some nights Archy, for this cockroach had a name and had been a vers libre bard in a previous life, would...
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In Which I’m Adverse
The seasons swing around, The birds will change their sound Heat and cold interchange And now my mint has got the mange!
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Peace Lily, My Wish for the World
Wish for the World That the peace and safety You wish for your children Is also won by the children Of others That all the World’s people Will find enough food For their individual good Without greed...
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Thoughts as a Storm Approaches
Evening darkness early upon the land Grey, sly clouds are hanging low, concealing Growing strength that piles up, hiding power Grabbing at stratospheric inspiration Wind is gusting fitfully With steel...
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Mt Lawley Train Station
On the Midland to Perth Line The IKEA boxes have been opened. Releasing flat-pak people Upon an unsuspecting world
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Despondent Thoughts
Thought on The USA A land bloated in faith Lost its Bravery And Its Freedom Becoming the evil it fought And its own worst enemy. Thought on the ’70s We knew the ethics of right Placing flowers in the...
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As Democracy Dies
As democracy dies I’ll stand my ground And do what the Left Have always done And done so well I’ll stand and sing with my mates Raising our voices to the sky So even in their tallest towers The Bosses...
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