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Haiku for 2025 [No.21. Madleen]

All eyes on Greta,

God grant Madleen safe anchor,

our sunset’s blood red.

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Maternity to Eternity

 

 

 

 

 

Apoplectic

gammonati

all indignant

and outraged

that some rappers

truth have told

with expletives

un-deleted.

Un-defeated

though’s the truth

terrorist Britain’s

drowned her morals

in the cesspit

where they swirl

where they fester

‘mongst the turds

while bitter and twisted

dames and lords

and pampered earls

the hig...

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Haiku don Bhliain 2025 [Uimhir a cúig déag 15 on Victory (over what?) Day]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Auschwitz? Vergessen!

Arbeit macht frei in Gaza

Frühling für Starmer

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh 8th May 2025

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Haiku for 2025 [No.11]

Fatma Hossana,

her truth, in photos at Cannes,

murdered in Gaza.

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Haiku for 2025 [No.10]

Auschwitz, now Gaza.

Broken hearts cannot weep, so

rain feeds our snowdrops.

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh, 27th March 2025

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Remembrance? Forget It!

Notes on Remembrance? Forget It!

 

My use of the word Pogrom in my poem is deliberate, not flippant. I used it to draw attention to its use by lying news / propaganda outlets with reference to the recent situation in Amsterdam, a deliberately emotive and offensive trivialisation of the horrific reality of pogroms in Russia, and of events such as Kristallnacht. Its use there, was a cynical...

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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...

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