An initiative unforeseen
Supported by the Countess Aberdeen
Motivated several politicians and were
Encouraged to convene
In the year of 1920
When issues were aplenty
Delegates backed the Cork City charter
And elected MacSwiney, our dear martyr
Yet as many were to grieve
Others would also leave
They were faced with a new mandate
Upon founding the Irish Free State
However not everyone was happy
And things got rather scrappy
With views diverging ever-more
Making it hard to keep the score
The dust took a while to settle
And tested our civic institutions’ mettle
Though issues were left unsolved
Causing city councils to be dissolved
New problems were to be addressed
That would get the people rousing
Occupied with public works and housing
Making the managers obsessed.
That’s an oversimplification
For a topic deserving of dilation
An overview of a creation
Being the Municipal Association
Simple truth strong health advice.' Check out This body.'it strives against medical vice.'
Against oligarchy.. Tangled with quackery; so rife.!
Just do your due dilligence, before joining' Is my only considered advice.!
As the man walks alone he sees the joy from the counsel that has become the Pharisees.
They have given the oath of rituals that pertain to the past and not for the future.
Looking at the actions and expectations, he sees them like the corrupted Phrarisees.
What they have done is go against the Edenic beauty of nature!
Entitlement at young ages is the poison of love!
At young ages they have for fame and dishonor sacrificed their purity!
The red blood has left the once peaceful and love -filled dove!
It is now a blood-stained corpse that has lost it’s purity!
Shifting their gears to the left on an empty tank!
Has allowed them to become morally bankrupt!
They want a bridge and residence to make their bank!
Their family and views have lead all their morals to become corrupt!
In the beginning if you cannot build with me to become my partner!
Then do not have the expectation for me to make you my life partner!
she whispers to the bluebird
early every afternoon
whispers in its ear and
it listens as if it understands
she dreams of peace
and they talk for hours
probably devising machinations
to make this world a better place
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
In the garden state, all used to be fair.' Yet four decades on
And disaster is in the air.' After lies about cin-vid and waste
Of funds.' Seems its victimisation for about everone.' At
'Their council meeting' the one they pay for.' Intimidation
Is engineered and other bad plans. To remove private assets from private land.' Really just piracy.' Thats how it
Appears to stand.' I say they are right the 'people i love' do
Not back down, its illegal enough.' You have a contract to
Be goverened fair.' I smell the dead rats.' And I do really care.' I am with you in spirit.' Just stand take the strain.'
Sing I am Australian.' And give them back some pain.'
This year in the town of Bath
W C H are exploring a path
There to show, what they know
Such good reasons to go
Real good people in action in Bath
From the second, to June the fourth '
With much discussion.. A tour de force.!
Many realists versus theorists.'
In the; city of Bath ? Of course.!
I’m sure ratepayers everywhere
Are aware of the many dangers
Of the cronyism to be found
At their local Council chambers
They build useless monuments
That will never make a buck
For vanity projects of all kinds
To feed egos run amok
All paid for by the taxpayer
Whilst roads and water are forgot
Common sense does not apply
To spend the rates financial pot
Management consultants say
‘Busloads of tourists will come to see’
But they’ve just made the numbers up
And charged outrageous fees
Ratepayers object but are ignored
We are unsophisticated swine
The council knows much better
How to spend your rates and mine
Behind the scenes you can be sure
Handshake deals are being made
Strings are being pulled
And backhanders being paid
Touted as the next big thing
But a hopeless waste of dough
When it fails the ratepayers cry
…………… ‘I bloody told you so!’
W H C
Nearly as easy?
As A B C
World care alliance
1 2 3
Steps to take ?
Check them out!
Why not; immediately.?
Rune awakenings
Wise ones nurture my rapture
kindred souls share my light halo
The “Presence” guides lessons learned
(Rune-characters written in ancient languages to explain text. Mystical meaning, casting spells in poems, sayings or aphorisms.)
The exoplanet council's having a pow-wow
Where are those amateur astronomers now
We've lost track of their telescopes
Have all those earthlings given up hope
Optimistic that our lifeforms will soon be discovered
Guess we'll have to wait 'til folks down there recover
a lost girl arranges in her room
her dress with stillness,
she pushes her tongue
against small kitten teeth,
outside the lift groans and bangs,
lights burn shapes
of flats and stairs;
this is a place to circle in;
to return to,
never to leave
she is sediment, a line of ash,
a failed escapee
Strike the masses, with hopes in prose
To earn their trust, and thumbs in folds
Kneel to the masses, to be put to council
Chosen by the masses, to be their council
Steal the masses’ offering, when put in council
To flee their own, only from hassle
To thee the council of the motherland
Why do you cause pain bitter than labour
Poverty strikes masses like thunder
Indigenes molested like prisoners
Strangled by the strings of hunger
Whiles awaiting your promise to better the land
To the mighty above, they are left to pray
To sustain them without a pay
For the day the fire shall turn red
The evergreen’s scalp shall turn bald
There is something about a suicide bombing
That to me is quite alarming
What really was their actual intent?
And also message they may have meant.
Both killing as well as bodily harm
Has the whole world up in alarm
What will we all have to do next?
This is my message I had sent by text.
All of our blood is running thin
When you keep doing it again and again
To NATO and SEATO we should stampede
And set up a council to fulfill this need.
For the glory of God in the skies
Thanks for being forgiving and so wise;
Considerate, kind and understanding;
I will only pray and not be demanding.
When for God want to complete a task
All I ever have to do is simply ask
Him for great guidance and direction;
He will point me towards his perfection.
What you should do is first start
By making God source of your art
And ability to put things in your works
Even if quant and have a few quirks.
Ashes are always ashes and dust is dust
But before you die you so surely must
Brunswick Arts Council become part of
And for local art will have much love.
I have said it once
Now will i say it twice
Not anymore
Not trice
For she won't listen
To my advice
She lives all her life
Bowing to images
And worshiping all the vanities
Thinking she is blessed
And will go to heaven
Now she perishes like a chicken
And she is soon forgotten
I will live a free man
Than to live a slave
For the beauty of the sea
Is it wave
The beauty of man
Is to live a free man
A good seed
Bears a good fruits
And a good water
Runs in a good fluids
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