I'll never walk Lagos's streets, for there I might not find German restaurant in which
To eat, or Russian grub? Or Maori food.? Or
Polo playing..Now dont think me rude.? But
If I arrived and they did not have
Chaucer plays or Tolstoy? I would
think them mad.? At least mono-cultural that most henious crime, in the west its been uncovered umpteen times
I hope some camera crew or even two do make a
Visit to see if such horrors are true.? No
Phantom of the opera in Eskimo.?
A real bad sign i'll have you to know,, yes they must be lectured if such is the case..Even berated! Right in their face.) And their
Land transformed, that they become much
More civilised.? Should that be the in
your place
Face.' Or faces of many? cause thats how its been for fifty pointless years on.' In the attacking of the
working western dream.)
As the world stands on its giant feet
To give support to the earth
I wonder why the world is always difficult
Every day, new acuity upon new acuity
And each struggling to be the bona fide one
What a world we are living in!
Sometimes, I rhetorically asked myself
Is it a world of burden
Or a world of peace and tranquillity?
Why can’t we come together as one?
Alas! My beloved people
Why are we striving so hard
To besmirch one another?
Why can’t we live in solidarity
And avoid all this segregation?
As we are civilised human beings
Boon companions we should be, but not foes
Or even to abhor one another
So happy and agog I would be
If the whole world amalgamates as one
To stop the mayhem, the shooting and the looting.
Went on hunting with revolver and gun.
I was zealous and wished to have some fun.
Took snacks in haversack: Bread butter bun.
Leisurely walked, whistling: Took a turn.
Met roaring tiger and started to run.
Lost all enthusiasm and vigor.
Trembled as followed by dreadful tiger.
Yet to make a friendship, I was eager.
I was civilised but tiger was vulgar.
It didn't care but rushed to me in anger.
Got puzzled to confront danger.
I didn’t know, how to press the trigger.
Forward - backward : impossible to step !
Absolutely no way to escape !
End of the story ? Curious ?
Answer is simple, oblivious.
Tiger swallowed me: I was gone.
“ Everything is fair
in Love and War.”
Why It is said so ?
Root cause is Ego.
‘Ego’ is itself selfish : No doubt.
Self -Centred : Absolute .
Most condemned word is “WAR “ !
No explanation is needed : Most clear !
Mainly to overpower other
Races, Nations, those are
weaker !
Whatever :
Only Common people are sufferers.
Tormentors are Invaders !
Mostly political Leaders.
No wonder !
Entire blame goes to administration -
obstructing progress of civilisation.
Humans mainly fight
violating human rights !
War entwined with selfish ego
somehow to forego ~
Selfish Ego to demolish ….
Peace and love to cherish !
To attain perfect civilised world
From dictionary, remove the word
‘WAR’
forever.
From this man's perspective I find
the problem with society
I would say is mankind
the most dangerous animal on earth
also and for what it's worth
don't believe me take a look
too many followers of F'book
the absolute epicentre
of disinformation
of sanity an aberration
the CEO (almost) single-handedly
destroyed civilised society as we once knew it
and after his self-confessed wrongdoing
it's beyond my ken
why anyone would subscribe to it
a wise man he once said to me,
'Neither a follower nor a leader be'
yet if they take to wade or wallow in your wake
it's their choice to make
I thought the storm is over
I thought freedom was finally free
Yet with time the pictures of our realities are still far from peace
The hunters keep hunting my Soil
They hate me but they love my resources
I thought we live in a civilised era
What happens to a free man
Or is torment compulsory or a wage
Of disobedience
Too long our hero’s are Been suppressed deprived and killed
This are the examples of a true reality
Realities of the third world class
Is sad that this are part of
The things that can never change
Not until we stand
Ten toes.
If it be lunatics rule half this world
And power mad despots tread where they please
If tyrant’s fists raised, leave no toe uncurled
And civilised nations fail to appease
If Reds share handshakes to serve malign ends
And kooks with nukes make many spines shiver
If despots trade ICBMs with friends
And NATO’s one voice betrays a quiver
If hospitals shield a terror downstairs
And each side seeks resolution in war
If one hostage freed, frees twenty of theirs
And war will be war like no war before
If all this be so then are we not done
And should we concede; the countdown’s begun
An aardvark walked into IKEA
Why he did that I have no idea
Ignoring their calls
To try the meatballs
He searched for some ants out the rear
He does ‘civilised’ when he’s able
So found a flat pack dining table
He’d built one - not ever
In inclement weather
And thus it was rather unstable
You don’t see aardvarks wearing wellies
While stuffing ants into their bellies
And if he should drown
While slurping ants down
Would it show up on closed circuit tellies?
He wouldn’t be humiliated
Embarrassment is over rated
The ground was now boggy
And aardvark was soggy
His hunger was not to be sated
So he snuck in to get meatballs - Swedish
He was wet so they gave him a free dish
He ate them real quick
And then he got sick
Had somebody done something fiendish?
The police came and said, “Well I Never,
Was it IKEA food or the weather?”
They found lots of clues
They thought they could use
But they struggled to put them together.
The big bully of the civilised world the Russian Federation
Launched a barrage of missiles today hitting a NATO nation
Two innocent people lost their lives in the country of Poland
It's time for the west and NATO, to man up and make a stand.
Intentional or not the west and NATO, they should not ignore
Or we going to accept it was accidental until they fire more
Russia will no doubt blame Ukraine, that's the story they'll tell
The west now needs to send Putin a message and unleash hell.
Vladimir Putin the aggressor started, this war in Ukraine
Its now time to stand to him and inflict on him great pain
You cannot reason with a terrorist country and that is a fact
No more pussyfooting around ,NATO and the west needs to act.
From day one that psychopath has been spoiling for a fight
He now needs to be shown the power of NATO's military might
Putins ageing equipment from World war 2 is no match for the west
Its now time to put our firepower, and highly trained armies to the test.
Written on 15th November 2022
Sleek form of burnished russet fur
nimbly walking our garden wall.
Each night we expect this visitor,
indeed he has become an old friend.
No longer hungry, robust and fit
with a very fine brush.
He sits down quite fearless waiting,
dreaming of his potluck dinner.
I never named this creature,
although literature calls him Raynard.
He is the hero of countless adventures.
No, if I were to endow him with a name
it would be Liberty.
His species survived the great hunt.
In my mind I think 'how could they?'
No longer clarion calls and dogs barking mad,
with horses milling around.
No more port in the stirrup cup,
a civilised gesture before barbarity.
But, back to my old friend the fox, it appears
he is no longer feral although domesticated?
certainly not. somewhere in between perhaps.
I love the way those piercing eyes gleam in the dark,
who knows how we are perceived?
Each night we carefully watch each other.
It is a distant friendship
communication
by way of food.
Pixabay image by rottonara
A civilised mind has become the gem that glues this broken mould together
it can identify each piece putting it properly in place of origin
with the perfect picture hate attacks colouring around normal
Attacking the source that painted this masterpiece vandalising the canvas
criminal every alteration of the law drawn from the book of Wisdom
direct approval of this deeply disturbing alteration carries a penalty
sell your soul to the highest bidder right or wrong is where loyalty sits
A tale of two paths where knowledge talks to the fool
are you the ancestor of the ape or man this fence divides
whom do you follow when you twist the truth with lies
You thought with your army victory was won
But Vladimar Putin just look what you've done
Sweden and Finland are now joining the alliance
Giving you the middle finger in their defiance.
They've seen what you've done in the Ukraine
And they do not want to suffer similar pain
NATO is now expanding like never before
And soon it will be at Moscow's front door.
Good overcomes evil every single time
In the near future you'll pay for your crime
But you can't leave Russia; you're in a cage
And if you do an assassin will engage.
Only your close family will mourn your loss
All the civilised nations won't give a toss
Your scum army too all deserve excutution
The sane world would see it as retribution.
Ukraine will win and they shall overcome
Your army are rapists and murdering scum
They'll always be synonymous with atrocity
And the image they portray is one of depravity.
Written 26th April 2022.
With a $10,000 peg
A Texan has no need to beg
Inside Burger Kings
A money bell rings
When anyone "murders" an egg*
*Unlike civilised people, Texans
count their chickens before the
eggs hatch, so they do not under-
stand why the Supreme Court won't
declare an egg to be a, "Live Birth"!
Troglodytes worked
A twenty hour week
But I'm sat in the meeting
Blinded by the pasty PowerPoint
On the horizon
I misread the slide title as
'Come Touch Me Baby'
Then I remember that I'd read
The invention of farming
Was one big shambles
Cave-dwellers had it good
Then it all went to
The earliest texts weren't poetry
But long lists of outstanding debts
Ben Franklin spat how when
The civilised man and woman
Were captured and then released
By Savage Life they would
"Take the first good opportunity
Of escaping again into the woods."
The meeting is over and we escape
As the staff all wait by the school gate
Because we're three minutes
Early clocking out
We stare at our smartphones
It hits ten past five
Out of the starting blocks
We call it a day
On arriving home we need
To call the bank and think
About hunter-gatherers
Hanging out and hooking up
SCIENCE UNSETTLED
In times when magic ruled the world
When charms and spells gave power and sway
Then words of sorcery were hurled
To vanquish foes and win the day
But now in days more civilised
We’ll not decode entrails of birds
Though, reasoned thought process devised
We still resort to potent words
One such expression widely voiced
In substitute for fact reliance
Flagged with blithe conviction hoist
This holy sacred mantra - ‘SCIENCE’
In blatant contradiction to true meaning
‘SCIENCE SETTLED!’ bars rich scientific gleaning
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