democracy (Remove filter)
Voices For The Just
The tide is rising with corrosive lies,
Where ignorance and rage entwine in dark disguise.
Unmoored from truth, they shout and blind the mind,
And reason, silenced, falters, left behind.
Young hearts, unshielded, gripped by twisted creed,
Through platforms pulsing with a poisoned feed,
Fall prey to rhetoric of scorn and spite,
As venom fills the streams and taints the nig...
Sunday 27th October 2024 4:31 pm
Loser
He does not wear life
As life should be worn,
And seems not to think
That we should be kind,
That people need hope,
And not resentment,
That honesty wins
Over packs of lies.
If he gets the nod,
We are all losers.
Sunday 20th October 2024 5:22 pm
Conference? What Conference?
Thus spake the left cheek of le grand derrière,
“Every child, every person, deserves to be respected”;
No respect though was shown to a fearless dissenter,
With scorn, every word from that cheek was inflected,
When questioned about killing those children in Gaza,
Their gallant defender was manhandled, ejected,
Then slammed in a van by democracy’s rozzers,
That, fellow citizens...
Friday 27th September 2024 12:08 pm
The President You Deserve
Turn out in November, don’t hesitate;
Sit on your hands and it may be too late.
Scruples don’t mean you just sit and observe,
If you want the President you deserve.
Though candidates will never be ideal,
The better one seeks to rally and heal.
To occupy the White House is to serve,
Choose wisely the President you deserve.
Respect for democracy and its ways
Shou...
Sunday 18th August 2024 8:56 am
Joe
A gracious, shrewd commander,
He was one of America’s best.
His courage and his honesty
Raised him up above the rest.
Now is the time to pass the torch
To a sharper generation,
To keep alive his legacy
And take forward a great nation.
For spiteful, ugly ideas tread
Upon Washington’s hallowed ground.
The politics of angry lies
Risks engulfing all around.
...Tuesday 23rd July 2024 8:37 am
November
I’m gonna win big, so big, this time;
I’ll notch up a record score.
There’s no way, trust me, there’s no way
That the other side will get more.
Our democracy is sacred,
To say otherwise is a sin;
So I will accept the verdict,
Provided, of course, that I win!
If I should lose, I will cry foul,
Alleging there was massive fraud;
I don’t need any evidence –
I...
Friday 15th March 2024 7:34 am
Time Was II
Once I was a pacifist, I was an objector.
A campaigning reformer, I was a protester.
Now I’m a radical extremist and snowflake moaner.
Mob rule wokeist, another social-justice warrior.
Someone who’s made their point but won’t shut up.
Prepared to tear society apart, a loon, and a zealot.
An agitator and disrupter, someone who must be reined in.
A danger ...
Monday 11th March 2024 4:51 pm
I had a dream
I hailed a dream
One dark night
To find myself
In a place not right
My choices had
Been taken away
By a backward court
Of the grand old ways!
The old wild west
Still held its sway
They said it was
Their country's way
The right to bear arms
Still had its freedom
No matter how many
Kids were bleedin'
And all LGBTQ
Had to w...
Friday 5th August 2022 9:40 am
A Place in History
Inspired from my walk to Hampton Court Palace ...
The cobbled stone path concealed a mirror,
Reflecting the footsteps of a bygone era.
On the grounds of Richmond upon Thames,
Stood one of English history’s finest gems.
The grandeur of architecture that once welcomed royalty,
Now stood barren, amongst its tranquillity.
A king’s history of questionable demeanour
Tha...
Monday 8th February 2021 8:18 pm
HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER (A rumination on The Capitol Hill Riot)
Enough is enough. Your madness is playing out it's deepest conceit.
No-one stole the election. But you would steal democracy.
You provoke, incite, divide, destroy. You sulk, pout, rant, rage, vilify.
While your America is kissed by the lips of a virus that leaves her breathless and dying,
in the swaggering grandeur of self-entitlement you play golf and tweet a polluted stream of omnipo...
Saturday 9th January 2021 6:36 am
Democracy
Democracy reveals the state
Of our disunity - Doug.E.Barr, poet
As I stood by the till
I heard a voice call out
It's over - the people's will:
A good result - a real rout
And ducked my head to pay
As the cashier agreed
And ducked my sad head to pray:
My silent view, an alien creed.
It's over - the people have had their say
That last faint hope is gone, done...
Wednesday 18th December 2019 12:29 pm
Contusion Blues
Have I caught a cold?
I can feel it in my bones
this hollow sense that I can’t shake
when I gauge the current state
Newspaper, newspaper
you’re not paper anymore
and it’s not news
just the inevitable unfolding
an unstoppable rolling
towards flag waving
a dismantling, dividing
dis-united kingdom
This news, this news
gives me contusion blues…
Politics is broken, democracy’s a jok...
Wednesday 21st August 2019 3:18 pm
Broken
Broken
it is all bleak broken; half-hell-heard House, blight blasted, a
sound spoke maelstrom where we see no substance swirling over heads
and hearts unheard - untending - unending obstacles to speech where
he, bright-tied bright-eyed, oversees the game's communication farce fail
debate: debate dire-drowning in the noise.
Order!
Broken
it is all blame blighted; w...
Friday 22nd March 2019 4:13 pm
Late Wisdom
You're aching for peace
I'm hurting too
Let the arguing cease
There's polling to do
You look for meaning
I offer a word
No sense for your gleaning
I'm not sure they heard
You called referendum
I thought it was flawed
A meaningless thrum
On democracy's chord
You were not aware and
I never knew
That voting out fanned
A nationalist view
...
Tuesday 9th October 2018 5:00 pm
Microcosm
They come together
in this place outside
yet at the centre of our world.
We have asked of them
our destiny
Have demanded nothing of them
except our future.
Who are these gods in whom we place our trust?
Who are these gods that we have selected?
These are the senate that we once elected:
The senators that ...
Thursday 9th November 2017 2:56 pm
Self Canibalism
Ouroboros is its own meal
The same is true with
Those from own country that steal!
To humstrung the incumbent
Most party members are not hesitant.
Ouroboros,they adore their party,
Which they obliviously or
Otherwise sully with
A rent-seeking identity.
They adore the incumbent
Yet they spell nation's
Slow but sure death
Siphoning budget earmarked
Fo...
Tuesday 17th January 2017 11:57 am
USMF
USMF
When the KKK and the Kremlin
Are sharing their vodka and rye
When redneck mutherfuckers
are making Lady Liberty cry
When The land of the free is walled in
So pesky Mexicans can’t get by
That’s the day the rest of us
Watches America die.
When the Whitehouse houses a bigot
A misogynist ‘locker room’ fly
When a multi-billionaire
Stands for momma...
Sunday 13th November 2016 12:16 pm
A White House or A Farce House ?
Awe inspired
While the whole world was
Expecting a
Brilliant lady
In a white-house
Drawing a blank
It witnessed a
Clown in a Farce
House,where
With the rob of Democracy
Takes stage Autocracy!
If spoken must
Be the truth
The revolting unfolding
Augurs ill to the youth,
The successors,
The task forces of
A given nation,
Who deserves
A better attention
To take the nation
To a n...
Saturday 12th November 2016 6:31 am
Recent Comments
Stephen Atkinson on Gaia's Lament
5 hours ago
Stephen Atkinson on I FEAR IT WON’T END WELL
5 hours ago
Stephen Atkinson on Payback Time
5 hours ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on where is home?
6 hours ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on Child In The Bramble
6 hours ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on Happy Holidays to All Poets and Readers!
6 hours ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on Gaia's Lament
6 hours ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on The Dentists Chair
7 hours ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on City
7 hours ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on Wonderful Wednesday
7 hours ago