BARENAKED LADIES
CANUCK ANTHEM BILLS DO PLEASE
TRUMP SNOWFLAKES DISPLEASE
Marijuana came around
LSD went to town
Cocaine in his brain
His life down the drain
Hashish to ease the pain
IN AND OF THE DREAM’S REALITY
(APROPOS OF THE ANTHEM AND THE PLEDGE)
How praised it would be:
Singing and pledging the truth
Of those words for me:-
Tears would not be tears of grief:
But tears of reality:-
Chorus:
Cyber foes, cyber foes,
What you gonna trace, what you gonna trace,
When they hack at you?
Cyber foes, cyber foes,
What you gonna trace, what you gonna trace,
When they hack at you?
Verse 1:
Tell me, what you gonna fix,
What you gonna fix when they breach your tricks?
Tell me, what you gonna fight,
What you gonna fight when it’s day or night?
Chorus:
Cyber foes, cyber foes,
What you gonna trace, what you gonna trace,
When they hack at you?
Cyber foes, cyber foes,
What you gonna trace, what you gonna trace,
When they hack at you?
Verse 2:
You, you, you, you, you,
Guard your info tight, it’s the thing to do.
You, you, you, you, you,
Stay alert and cool, keep your data true.
Chorus:
Cyber foes, cyber foes,
What you gonna trace, what you gonna trace,
When they hack at you?
Cyber foes, cyber foes,
What you gonna trace, what you gonna trace,
When they hack at you?
From Makhaleng’s stone, from Thames’ steady beat,
A single rhythm stirs, a pulse grows strong—
O Sisters of the Soil and Sisters of the Street,
Your hour is come to dismantle ancient wrong.
We know the weight: the gourd, the grinding stone,
The quiet ledger balanced late alone,
The branded scars empires refuse to own.
Shall we be silent while the market’s hand
Sells childhood short and plunders every shore?
While truth is buried in the poisoned sand
And justice knocks upon a bolted door?
No. Let the kgotla’s wisdom find the air,
Let Parliament’s cold vault with echoes ring—
Two streams now rising in a single dare
To strip the armour from the faltering king.
So blend the strength—the sereto and the sonnet’s fire,
The drummer’s call, the bell from Tower’s height.
Weave from two strengths one unassailable choir
To drag this shivering century to light.
Let every cry for right, an anthem be,
A towering Baobab, a Sovereign Tree.
Sing my anthem for these sun-kissed women's plight,
Their beauty blazes like sunrise through a screen,
When twilight's hush arrives, the lovers slip from sight.
From broken dreams, they claim the throne of night,
Their fragile love,both curse and silent mercy,still unseen,
Sing my anthem for these sun-kissed women's plight.
The shy one heals what cruel men disunite,
Her deep kindness flows where bitterness has been
When twilight's hush arrives, the lovers slip from sight.
Seducers chase the flash of skin, forget the light,
Of souls that shimmer deeper than the surface sheen-
Sing my anthem for these sun-kissed women's plight.
She bore his name, his child,the bruising bite,
And smiled through storms jealousy deemed obscene.
When twilight's hush arrives, the lovers slip from sight.
Yet even strong spirits bear the world's weight,
And fade beneath the hunger of the worldly scene-
Sing my anthem for these sun-kissed women's plight
When twilight's hush arrives,the lovers slip from sight.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
Star-speckled galaxies nestled in indigo stratospheres transform
Into a plethora of pastel hues, painting the canva of a breaking dawn.
Strokes of salmon and peach stretch across the heavens,
Whilst the slumbering cosmos begins to awaken.
Shimmering dewdrops collect like pristine pools within velvety buttercups,
Nourishing amber and ebony bumblebees.
The birdsong of magpies calls you to embrace new day's hope.
Pulling back chiffon-cream curtains,
Rays of sunlight reflect off ocean-blue irises.
Breathing in the miracle of life's warmth,
Pearlized wings of hummingbirds flutter to the rhythm of your swaying heart,
As a balmy breeze skims past fields of lavender—
Delicately dancing in an amethyst ballet.
What thou shalt be wasted?
With the ship of sorrow harboured.
Like it gives thee an unexpected explosion,
And the heart of trauma and darkness is implanted.
It clouds into a season of bloodshed and pain,
But all thy life seems to be bludgeoned.
Tumbled into a canvas of time,
As thou shalt find a euphoric heart abused.
No description of fear was given,
With thy face bashed and muddied.
It shalt not be a publicized cry for help,
Nor shalt it be a dark horse murmured.
As a hard and stone-cold sadness torments thee,
And thy emotional feelings go unnoticed.
Memories would put thee in a chokehold,
And thy mutual senses are blurred.
Thou would find that thy pride is thy worst nightmare,
In thy skull is a slug that is slightly planted.
That, my friend, is a trauma that can drown in thy sorrows,
And it can get thee wasted.
SPILLEGE SPOIL SYBER SIST-- Vogon Unofficial Anthem Poetry
Infused intensity of immense ignorant
Boils of blast feme burbling
Crackle and gilling clump coils
Of filament retardants…..coverings
Egos frost bitten frozen bumps
Cabbage patch dolls provocateur
Running ruins caveating wretch
Worldly scum virgate arresting…..whose
Developing deepen darts of daze
Daring divorced deities
Spillage spoil syber sist
Rope gatherings of responsive reeps…..what?
Tweet twik ti tork
Tweet twik ti tork
Tork twik ti Tweet
Wailing walls worship waters sung-songs
Of open offensives offerings
Spillage spoil syber sist
Vested virtues very vast
Undermining unfixed unumerously…..anthem
Spillage spoil syber sist
1/17/25
For Vogon Poetry Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Sotto Poet
Unbelievable, but believe me its true
Astounding science from my crew
Its whats found in whats left to do
Damn right its up to you
Dont worry babe baby Its up to me too
I keep my promises I roll Game Tight
But the world is ablaze with fire
And we’re sure to expire on the fame night
Most famous night of all nights
I heard my homie ask for the anthem of the enclave x3
Oh say Im so ing done with you
Your so in done with me too.
One more step in your waffled out nike checks
Looks like synergy is up next
Looks like there into me, im into them too
Looks like a drama is a brew
Feels like I cant hurt my feels
Cant object to whats really real
Look hear homie you cant knock your own
Ive been listening and trying not to spit
I heard a homie ask for the anthem of the enclave
I heard a homie ask for the anthem of the enclave
Oh say can you see that Im so ing done with you
Your so ing done with me too
Feathers plucked before the feast,
An eagle lies across the stone.
Our hunger’s grip, its need released,
Feathers plucked before the feast.
A sacred symbol, now deceased,
Hallowed eyes are swallowed whole.
Feathers plucked before the feast,
An eagle lies across the stone.
Freedom's song, first amendment's grace,
A symphony of rights we all embrace.
Speech unchained, beliefs untamed,
Press unburdened, grievances proclaimed.
In liberty's embrace, democracy inflames.
Africa the Holy garden
protected by Angels
Africa the Holy garden
blessed by God,
Africa of pure waters
And more natural resources,
Africa of more plants
and arable soil,
Africa of good weather,
fauna and flora
Africa which welcomes
all the visitors
"Know yourselves Africans,
Knowing yourselves Africans"
The God of the Holy Apostles and prophets
Put power ,strength and authority in you
To control the World.
Written in Swahili by Alfonso Warally Ngengethe Mussabwa Chris
On May 20/2013
Translated in English in March 05 /2023
Proposed to be the national Anthem of African Union
Got a Lil too much body
Show too much am a hottie
Fantasy to your Ecstasy
But you ain't really care about this body
All you wanna drive a Bugatti
You ain't really wanna build up this story
Makin up authority
You ain't even see intensity
Bless the mother, the daughter in the…
That’s right all you want is your Lil mermaid
Turn round to stare
Cause medusa’s in my hair
And that’s not really fair.
We never knew
we kinda tthought it
strange
somethings rearranged
something is
completely different
never mind the way
I wanna try and say
there is something
different
between me and you
everytime we kiss
Everytime we Kiss
Everytime we Kiss
I just want somemore
what inspired this
The moment we kissed
What inspires this
I just want some more
Let's sing it again
make a beautiful melody
let's sing it agin
love our way through
let kiss again
I liked it the first time
let me stop and say
Let's do it again
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