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Haiku for 2026 [No. 24. What Genocide?]
Lie, lie, lie again,
if, at first, you’re not believed.
Britain? Genocide?
Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,
Dé Céadaoin, an t-ochtú lá de mhí Iúil,
2026, an bhliain dhá mhíle is fiche a sé.
Wednesday 8th July 2026 9:08 am
Limerick Tryptich [ But I Won’t Do That]
“I will be with you whatever”,
Blair promised in his criminal endeavour,
as he lied ‘bout Iraq,
forever wars kept on track.
Yes, welcome to “Labour Together”.
Promised “change” by Starmer, who’s dire,
Britain jumped from frying pan to fire;
he didn’t get my vote,
liars don’t float my boat,
they’ve lit their own funeral pyre.
A snake’s belly’s considerably hi...
Wednesday 17th June 2026 11:07 am
Four Preludes to Four Haikus
Four doodles using one colour-blue something or other.
Chopin wrote twenty-four preludes, which were not preludes to anything, and he got away with that!
I've called these doodles preludes, because that's what they are.
I painted the four pictures whilst on holiday a week or so ago, purely as part of a creative “doodling” exercise.
I have just written these Haikus as a reponse to ...
Monday 1st June 2026 6:33 pm
What Iranian Daddy?
There’s nothing to see here!
If there is, we ignore it,
‘cos we’re just
following orders, aren’t we.
Call yourselves journalists?
your silence speaks volumes.
An Iranian daddy
stabbed by a monarchist?
this week, opposite Downing Street,
doesn’t fit the agenda
of hypocritical
fascist boot-licking
politicos and genocide enablers.
Let’s face it,
fostering,
...Friday 1st May 2026 12:26 pm
Sonnet [Let’s Make Hope Normal Again on Thursday May 7th, 2026]
Re-post of 2025 version with slight edits.
And did Old England once, play by the rules,
That nation of shopkeepers, honest folk,
Who shunned smooth-talking charlatans and fools?
Once, solidarity broke tyrants’ yolk,
When Yeomens’ sabres slashed at Peterloo,
When Murder wore the Mask of Anarchy,
When on Cable Street, at th...
Thursday 30th April 2026 9:25 pm
The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind
“Were you and Mr. Corbyn friends, Mr. Starmer?”
Optimistically asked a truth-seeking reporter:
but the North Wind it blew, so he huffed and he puffed,
and the South Wind it blew, as he thought it all through,
then the East Wind it blew, yes, that question was tough,
then the West Wind it blew; that decided the truth:
“Yes, of course we were”, croaked he with a cough.
Again, ...
Wednesday 11th March 2026 3:45 pm
The Food of Love
Illegal is a concept with which the UK’s familiar:
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Theft: they all come to mind,
but our legal eagle of Human Rights is the pot
who’s deigned to call the Trumpian kettle black:
protest genocidal arms, Starmer will imprison you,
yes, the fog of war’s the friend he hides behind:
Afghanistan and Iraq we...
Friday 6th March 2026 1:01 pm
Haiku for 2026 [No. 5. Stop Arming Genocide!]
Palestine Action
went a-courting with courage:
Hopes’s green shoots showing.
Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,
Dé Sathairn, an ceathrú lá déag de mhí Feabhra,
An Bhliain Dhá Mhíle is Fiche a sé.
Saturday 14th February 2026 2:01 pm
Haiku for 2026 [no. 1. Neujahrskonzert]
Eurovision’s blind:
Neither sees nor hears evil.
Here’s a lump of coal.
Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,
Ag a haon a chlog
Dé Céadoin, an Chéad lá de Mhí Eanair,
An Bhliain Dhá Mhíle is Fiche a sé
(at one o’clock, Thursday 1st January 2026)
Thursday 1st January 2026 12:58 pm
Haiku for 2025 [No. 48. We’re with you Greta!]
One man’s terrorist’s
Prime Minister of nothing:
nowt but genocide.
Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
dé Máirt, an tríú lá is fiche de mhí na Nollag,
dhá mhíle agus cúig is fiche.
Tuesday 23rd December 2025 9:31 pm
Haiku for 2025 [No.46. Justice for Sale]
Double Haiku [National Emergency Edition]
SUPPORT GENOCIDE!
OPPOSE PALESTINE ACTION!
BURN OLIVE BRANCHES!
JUSTICE IN BRITAIN
FOR SALE TO GENOCIDERS
KILLS GREEN SHOOTS OF HOPE
Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Déardaoin, an seachtú lá is fiche de mhí na Samhna,
dhá mhíle agus cúig is fiche.
(Thursday 27th ...
Thursday 27th November 2025 9:27 am
The Fraud
The Fraud
Such an edifying sight, were those poppies, this Remembrance Sunday,
on the Cenotaph railings, twenty times larger than life,
which were bunting-bedecked by flag-shaggers’ Union Jacks,
statements - or warnings - to “them illegulls, them immigrunts”
across the road - who’ve lived and worked here for as long as I have.
Rem...
Thursday 13th November 2025 2:55 pm
Limerick [British Bullshit Corporation]
Limerick [British Bullshit Corporation]
For the price of a modest donation,
Auntie’s transformed the taxpayer’s station:
She’s long cheered for genocide,
Kissing Benjamin’s backside,
Her motto’s changed to “Nation Lies unto Nation”.
Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,
Dé Mairt, an...
Tuesday 11th November 2025 11:56 pm
Tenant of the Sea
He witnessed the rise and fall of the tides,
Leaping over the sea that seemed so milky in the moonlight.
Gloating over its graceful strides,
The rumble of the colossal sea was all he could hear that night.
The stars twinkled in the darkness,
And the moon in the blackness
Gazed dotingly at him and his boat,
As he was carried swiftly afloat.
How long had he been at ...
Monday 20th October 2025 3:18 pm
NÍ SAOIRSE GO SAOIRSE NA PALAISTÍNE! [No Freedom Without Palestine’s Freedom!]
NÍ SAOIRSE
GO SAOIRSE
NA PALAISTÍNE!
Canada’s banned the Rappers Kneecap,
About this fact, I’ll make no Bones:
Genocide’s friends are full of Crap,
Obsequious still, to creeps on Thrones,
Canada sucks, ain’t got no Spine,
War criminals ain’t no friends of Mine.
Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,
Dé Domnaigh, an t-aonú lá is fiche...
Sunday 21st September 2025 12:08 pm
GENOCIDAL SHOWER of SHIT
Mi dear mam on’ dad, aw’ve summat ter tell thi,
(Yeah, aw know, th'art up theer, wi t'big mon on high),
It’s just uz aw’ve bin a prize pillock sometimes,
On' a selfish sod, aye many’s the time,
But theer’s wun thing in which aw con truly tek pride,
Uz aw didn’t give these morally bankrupt scrotes,
These basterd scumbags on’ hypocrites,
This festerin' genocidal shower o' shit,
...Thursday 4th September 2025 12:31 pm
Limerick [UKIP Hitler Salutes and Hangings]
Old ladies protesting ‘gainst genocide,
Are manhandled, of liberty deprived:
But that UKIP boss calling
For his opponents’ hanging?
That’s fine, ‘cause we kiss Bibi’s backside!
Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,
Dé Máirt, an dara lá de mhí Mheán Fómhair,
dhá mhíle agus cúig is fiche (...
Tuesday 2nd September 2025 10:57 pm
Luimneach Sceimhlitheoirachta
I’m an ardent supporter of genocide,
And oft have I practiced infanticide,
But a murderous faction
Such as Palestine Action,
Would she want such scum on her side?
Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,
Dé Domhnaigh, an t-aonú lá is tríocha de mhí Lúnasa,
dhá mhíle agus cúig is fiche (31st August 2025)
Sunday 31st August 2025 7:59 am
G.E.N.O.C.I.D.E (Spelling It Out) updated & with audio
G.E.N.O.C.I.D.E.
Spells GENOCIDE
This ain’t Shock and Awe,
This is GENOCIDE
“The deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people,
Because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race”
GENOCIDE
Happening right now in front of our eyes
GENOCIDE
Yet those people still can’t decide
GENOCIDE
Ethnic cleansing with nowhere to hide
GENOCIDE
Destroying infrastructu...
Wednesday 20th August 2025 9:50 am
“ISLAMOPHOBIA RULES OK!”
NOT THE NINE O’ CLOCK NEWS
“ISLAMOPHOBIA RULES OK!”
DID WE ACTUALLY SAY THAT?
YOU MAY THINK THAT IT DOES
OUR PRODUCER COULDN’T POSSIBLY COMMENT.
THE NINE O’ CLOCK NEWS!
FUNDING PALESTINE ACTION
IS A TERROR OFFENCE
WARNS NUMBER TEN.
[STARMER KNOWS IT’S NOT,
BUT HE COULDN’T POSSIBLY COMMENT]
NOT THE NINE O’ CLOCK NEWS
FUNDING GENOCIDE ACTION
IS NOT ...
Tuesday 19th August 2025 10:17 am
Sonnet: Imigh Hotovely, Imigh Smál Damnaithe! Imigh is Póg mo Thóin! [Out Hotovely, Out Damned Spot! Out and Kiss my Arse!]
The 1st stanza asks a question to which the answer is, of course, “No”. John Milton wrote Areopagitica, an argument against censorship.
Sadly, in the Britain of 2025, poets, artists, journalists, religious leaders and The Man on the Clapham Omnibus now face routine harrassment by the UK Government and the police, enduring arrest and imprisonment without charge or trial: and for what? for oppos...
Thursday 14th August 2025 11:49 am
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Wednesday 13th August 2025 5:42 pm
There Was a Blind Man...............
There was a blind man
(sounds like the beginning of a parable in the Bible, doesn’t it!)
In Britain-a Christian country
who was confined to a wheelchair
whose people and leaders
who was arrested
claim to be followers of Christ
for opposing genocide
who pray in warm churches on Sundays
for attempting to prevent genocide
...Tuesday 12th August 2025 8:32 pm
No Mercy Left for Gaza’s Dying Children
Sunday 10th August 2025 8:08 am
Elbits n’ Pieces R Us [All your childrens’ needs supplied]
A UNICEF report dated 27th May 2025 gave the number of children killed or injured in the Gaza Strip alone as more than 50,000 Fifty Thousand - God knows what it is now; the juxtaposition of the images of a School Bus and a Battle Waggon is horrifically appropriate.
Off to hell in a handcart the U.K. goes,
the U.K. goes, the U.K. goes:
let the bodies pile high; to learn from history w...
Wednesday 6th August 2025 12:27 pm
The Price of Liberty
The Others, we are told to fear,
they point at strange and different folk,
whose foreign tongues upon our streets,
and foreign food and foreign dress
might “dilute our Britishness”
as if it were an orange squash.
But evil is resident, not afar,
the enemy spread their fear and scares,
whilst warning us, look, foreign folk
have come to steal your homes and jobs,
...
Thursday 24th July 2025 11:20 am
I am Palestine Action
I am Palestine Action
Netanyahu said "jump", so we jumped,
we invaded Iraq, kissed his rump,
now in B.Liar’s Riviera del Blood,
morality’s trod in the mud,
his Majesty’s long streak of piss
makes Britannia a moral Abyss,
Palestine’s babies need Action,
kind words are no longer an option,
so, come and get me, you B.Liarite war monger
whose wea...
Saturday 12th July 2025 10:55 am
GENOCIDE
This isn’t Shock and Awe,
This is GENOCIDE
“The deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people,
Because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race”
GENOCIDE
Happening right now in front of our eyes
GENOCIDE
Yet those people still can’t decide
GENOCIDE
Ethnic cleansing with nowhere to hide
GENOCIDE
Destroying infrastructure and hospitals, making way for thei...
Friday 20th June 2025 3:06 pm
Saoirse don Phalaistín!
I’d love to lull
my little lad
so tenderly
to dreamy sleep,
to cradle my
wee baby boy,
to hold him close,
then, when he’s quiet,
to lay him in
his comfy cot,
but your Jimmy
and your Jenny
follow orders,
genocide
is what they do:
hope you’re happy,
hope you’re proud,
that from England’s
pleasant land,
your sons and daughters
sent us dea...
Friday 20th June 2025 12:27 pm
Bread and Roses
For your information; the video below is sung in Yiddish, with English and French subtitles.
In forty-eight, I came into this world,
whose peace, they say, was won at cost immense:
I’m told that I should genuflect and bow,
to those who worship those old gods of war,
yes, I should heed the Christian warriors’ words,
who preach from pulpit and from podium,
and show respect ...
Tuesday 22nd April 2025 3:15 pm
Eighty Springs Since Buchenwald
Eighty years ago, Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated, revealing the horrific suffering endured by thousands of victims. Under brutal Nazi rule, countless lives were lost to violence, starvation, and forced labor. The liberation marked both an end to this chapter of terror and a solemn reminder of the depths of human cruelty.
Eighty springs have bloomed and gone, Since gates wer...Monday 14th April 2025 7:19 am
Easter Time for Palestine [Global Day of Civil Disobedience]
Easter Tuesday,
April the twenty-second,
in the Year of Our Lord
Twenty-Twenty Five,
Speak Truth to Power,
on a Global Day
of Civil Disobedience
in support of the people
(yes, they are people,
yes, they are human),
of Palestine,
a Global Day, chosen
to be around Easter-time,
an Easter time for Palestine,
in an effort to shame
those “Christian” by nam...
Monday 7th April 2025 9:53 am
Children of Heaven
These children have shining eyes yet sharp,
A strength carved deep upon each face.
They are not princes or princesses from a fairy tale;
They are real, present on the earth of Gaza, full of pain and trials.
Their story is recorded without the embellishment of fantasy,
Sending a message to awaken the human conscience,
Which has dulled under the glitter of a fleeting world.
...Friday 8th November 2024 2:20 pm
“Welcome to the Show!”
Gaza is forced onto a boundless stage,
A spectacle of endless conflict,
In a world where roles are chosen by power
Trump says, "Welcome to the show!"
He knows his role, he knows his lines,
Staging a political performance beneath the guise of humanity
Upon the stage owned by the United Nations,
They send hollow promises to Gaza,
Leaving them choking in the ...
Saturday 26th October 2024 10:35 pm
Socialist my Arse!
The starver hears but must ignore,
being answerable, not to the many,
but the few’s blood-lusting roar,
strings pulled with many a pretty penny.
lover he, of fascist shores,
solution final, they’ve demanded,
in hock to genocidal boors,
with filthy lucre he’s red-handed.
is there no arse he will not lick?
needs must that he stand by his man;
no conscience has that stan...
Sunday 20th October 2024 11:42 am
Just Say No!
It’s time to say NO!
It’s time to turn left,
To staunch the blood flow,
Of truth they’re bereft,
It’s time for the many,
To stand up to the few,
To liars ten-a-penny,
To red ties turned blue,
You’re a friend of apartheid
You’ve just lied to this nation,
You enabler of genocide,
And illegal occupation,
The targets weren’t civilian,
Your pants ar...
Saturday 5th October 2024 3:24 pm
PRESS! Bang Bang, You’re Dead!
Perhaps you’re wondering why you got the sack?
For years now, I’ve not bought our local rag,
not bought the cut and paste of client hacks,
who’d not report on genocide of a nation,
for fear of being murdered on The Strip,
tell lie on lie, warmongering information,
co-lateral damage? say it’s just a blip,
from Iraq to Gaza, murderous tongues you wag.
Tuesday 5th March 2024 10:46 am
Dear Mister Stupidly of Braindead...
Dear Mister Stupidly of Braindead,
that genocide is not in my name;
starving babies to death,
your conscience won’t stain,
so I’m asking you, oh very nicely,
pretty please, will you bugger right off;
we’ll protest against murder,
we’ll protest ‘til it stops,
we’ll protest a lot further,
we’ll protest til the fucking penny has dropped,
we’ll protest a lot louder,
i...
Thursday 29th February 2024 11:21 am
Gutter Press
They claim he died
as act of protest
against the “war”.
Tools of the fascists,
gutter press
they lie and lie
whilst innocents die.
“I will no longer
be complicit
in genocide”,
were his words.
“Free Palestine”
he screamed out
in his agony,
at least three times.
Wednesday 28th February 2024 11:11 am
Was It For This The Clay Grew Tall?
NB. the penultimate line is a quote from war poet Wilfred Owen's "Futility".
HMS Britannia
some years ago,
began bouncing
along the bottom
of turd-strewn
and poisoned
inland waterways
and shorelines,
she’s scraping
the moral barrel,
going through
its rotten bottom,
into the cesspit,
in which she’s floating,
all with the blessings
of silent cler...
Tuesday 27th February 2024 10:13 am
Walking the Streets
Rachel touts for votes in Leeds,
but Rachel Gen O’ Cide is fleet,
yes, Rachel and her minder run
from awkward questions on our streets;
that mother’s questions ain’t no fun;
have you had a drink of water?
have you eaten more than crumbs?
Gaza’s children have to dig
for water whilst they’re dodging bombs,
Rachel, do you give a fig?
have you had to dig your daughter
...
Sunday 18th February 2024 1:14 pm
Red River
the train was too late
Saturday 10th February 2024 10:35 am
Cant(erbury) and Hypocrisy
Will you be there in Our Lord’s House
on bended knee on Sunday morn,
good Christians all; will you be there,
a-seeking spiritual comfort from
one silent on a genocide,
who, love and peace will loudly preach,
whose cowardly silence volumes speaks,
th’ Archpastor of you faithful sheep?
Will you cry out for justice now,
or crucify again Our Lord,
side with enablers ...
Tuesday 6th February 2024 2:26 pm

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