Two worlds
Can feel like two minds
Two cultures
Two lives
1 heart but 2 homes
Set deep in your bones
And it can be really nice,
The mixture of bread and rice
But sometimes I don't belong to either
Too tan or too light
Eyes a mixture
Almost right
Perhaps like a cold fever
Where I belongs to neither
Just a sight
Falling through cracks
Breaking my back
The language I lack
A never ending stack
Of questions
And concerns
And a turmoil of topsy turvy
Whirling confusion
The delusion
Of who I am.
It is a true beauty
A narrow European street
Lined by aged buildings
Some with tables and chairs
People in love are just staring at each other
Sipping wine and sharing a few kisses
Hundreds of flowers add their colour
Filling the air with their faint scents
And drawing in bees and butterflies
To make the scene a little more perfect
© Poem – XXIII/VII/MMXXV
LRET
It's enough to make one chunder
there used to be a time Down Under
when fair dinkum the label on the tucker tin
only stated the true blue maker's name
and the Vegemite we'd eat for brekkie contained therein
while not a porky implied mate there's something to hide
with a shonky no responsibility disclaimer
I’m spewin’ cranky as today's focus is on what's not inside
no GMO cholesterol additives gluten calories caffeine nuts
no added colouring sugar preservatives
no artificial sweeteners monounsaturated
no polyunsaturated &/or trans fats
and bloody oath cobber that's not all as I recall
no worries tho' there's also low sodium
not whingeing but one wonders if it's a dodgy admission
there's no bonzer thingo within such as ace nutrition
meanwhile I'll fill my billycan from yon billabong
surrounded by a few emu and a roo or two
as up a gum tree the kookaburra laughingly looks on
there's nothing more I can do so may as well
bung another shrimp on the barbie blow the froth off a few
have one last blast on me didgeridoo Blue and shoot through
Do you know that European Union
lies on African division.
As some Africans start tighten their union
There is reduction of illegal productions
and distributions of African natural resources
which pushed the augmentation
of frustrations of some Europeans.
Remember, some Africans rejected neo- colonisation
Which was a new version of colonisation
That continue to ridicule many black nations
All over the World.
Many black folks must continue with oppositions,
Opposing all sorts of oppression as majority victims
of many atrocities on the planet earth from centuries.
Remember, It is not crime to continue to speak truths
about wrong things in the World.
It is always good for some people to claim their rights
whenever they are abused.
find it easy,
when millions of black people are rising peacefully
because they are marginalised globally.
The world was made for all races
to live peacefully.
If fifty four African countries move freely
It is the victory of all marginalised nations.
September 20/2023
Ze French, they are haughty
Kremlinites, vulgar, crude
Le artiste charcoal sketches
in the unvarnished nude
Brits keep a stiff upper lip
Pointy-shoed Italians think they are hip
Ukrainians fight like the dickens
their stockpiles reduced to slim pickens
summer’s sweetest swill
intoxicating fuddle ~
merry mendicant
(June Full Moon – European)
(Written through the eyes of a 6th century B. C. era Scythian warrior poet)
wind o wind o wind!
wind o wind whichs cleaves
the steppe in dire stagnation
eternal is the ride,
endless, the expanse
forever is the arrow
and the still air it slices
has no end to it either
below the ever-great sun-disc
we tremble
like hearts in lover-chests
half human, half stallion
hoof and hand, neigh and bow
into everlasting cold
echoing
aryan ancestry
from back centuries or even millenia
into ever-hinterlands
where slint-eyeds
and blue-eyeds
and brown-eyeds live
the steppe-nation spreads
like eagles soar
or how wolves migrate
Four score, nothing there
Ukraine lost the Roman hosted sporting affair
Back in London Boris raises a Saturday pint
Proclaiming success on this summer’s night
Soon the red, white boys will be coming home
Right now, Wembly is dark and alone
Waiting for Tuesday’s Spanish Inquisition
Italy goalers planning their position
But as for the Danes
Wednesday is their game
A fairy tale
Against the old guard writing the daily mail
No reason to complain
Dickens and Anderson will be talked about noting societal fame
UK will put up their best
Defending a modern-day stadium nest
While those from Denmark
Will be able to hark
Under the lights in the evening’s dark
Hollering Christian ‘we love you’
While turning Nordic Leif on Erikson too
A protagonist inside the sports book pages
Hero to those counting wages
British need to hold serve
To get what they deserve
A trip to the Championship round
And a trophy worthy of a couple pounds
Giving to the victor who wins it all
Competing in UEFA European futbol
Scottish Wildcats are listed as, critically endangered
Once found throughout Britain, now only found in northwest Scotland
living in wooded areas, near the edges of forests and shrublands
and the Scottish Wildcat is a subspecies, of the European Wildcat
Domestic cats pose a great threat, for these Scottish Wildcats
as there are very few genetically pure populations left, of this Wildcat
and deforestation has left them confined, to the Scottish Highlands
and snares and traps are have accounted for many of their deaths
I used to be German of true Prussian decent
These days I am European to my content
Travel without passport for thousands of miles
Meet people of all kinds who offer their smiles
Am free to live work and enjoy in 27 countries
Which is how it should be and is rather funky
No customs control no one inspects my trunk
Whether I seem established or look like a punk
Don’t need traveller’s checks or money conversion
Use what little Euros I have on all my excursions
Journeys are user friendly for the average folks
Just think what supreme liberation that invokes
One extra bonus if you want to voyage up to an old age
These days we are not fighting wars and hostile rampage
We may happily live and not die for some sort of madness
Ideology foreign conquest or industrial military apparatus
The EU brought decades of Peace to a once belligerent place
‘No ... Sherlock’ to understand that we are one human race
05th June 2019
dunnocks and robins
paired up and nesting
winter moths active
You always eat a sandwich with a knife and a fork
You don't think of bacon when you think of pork
You'd likely drop dead from mayonnaise on bread
You'd rather drink wine than beer with a head
You take off your shoes when you enter a house
You don't hug and kiss women in front of your spouse
You sport a clean handkerchief up near the top of your suit
You sport galoshes in the rain instead of shoe boots
You hail from a country that's indisputably European
Unlike your counterpart ~ a Mark Twain Missou-RI-an
Turning from Christ
to disbelief;
as Satan confronts
the death
and hell…
Its expression
withering
the self and
its culture.
The suicidal genocide—
a gesture
in guilt's name
for stewardship's misdeeds:
Evil
in its self
Judgement.
© S. Wesley Mcgranor
I am the queen of geography
I deserve a trophy
I am the best
better than the rest
this is why I am the queen
In Turkey I swim I skinny dip in the lake
eating some cake
because I am the queen
during my rule ,
I want to grow a forest of baobabs
for Leanne's dads
they call me vanesso
cause I am the besto
and I like pesto
sound
later peace out xoxoxoxoxox
*******Dedicated to JB and Lindaaaaa******
octave of forty words
Forty years - man and wife
long time friends celebrate life
on holiday, pure pleasure bound
four couples, eight countries found.
City ruins, castles, churches, canals,
lots of leisure, legendary locales,
river bends and mountain peaks,
whirlwind journey, two short weeks.
written 24 January 2016
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