Long Self defence Poems

it feels good to escape
with authors and poets
and dream up new places
with tales that are spun.

but sometimes what's real
and sometimes what isn't
encroach on each other
and read just as one.

such are the worlds
of rhyme but no...

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Silence and Shouts

I listen to him breathing.  If it’s labored, I ask, “Are you okay?”
And from over the rings of walls of silence he has built around himself, 
He implores, “You hear so poorly,...

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Biological entities or angels of God; who are we? 
Ten times two, youth, we set to the island.
If day here is pleasant freedom and lost in wilderness,
Why not night?
A simple request from boatman; we smiled...

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I’ll Never Understand Humans   

   Hi, My name is Lady, and I live a dogs life, yes I’m a lazy mutt, but, 
before you go getting the wrong idea, I’m integral...

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Louis the Fifteenth, king of France,
Adored Madame du Barry.
His royal ardor was not bound
To the person he did marry.

His paramour was hard to please.
The king brooded day and night
On what act of loving kindness
Might appease...

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it finally was acknowledged as a problem. something has gone wrong
we must LOOK BACK retrace our steps and explain why exactly
this corpse is still moving. hold the clipboards tightly- what should
have been told to us...

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I won’t hold my breath for the day you stop butchering us. We already have enough issues trying to breathe with you around. They said one should never bring a knife to a gunfight, can...

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He was only a sheepdog
But his death has bitten 
Into my soul ever since.
As a pup we brought 
Him from his home
In Ireland
Where supernumeraries 
Are drowned
No small   farm needing 
More than one mutt.

His...

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Inspired by Episode 4: "The Return" of Season 1 from "City Homicide", a brilliant Australian TV show. 

The introduction quote to the show is: "No greater honour will ever be bestowed upon an officer than...

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Recently I spoke to a young man.
Let’s say his name was John.
He told me all about his life,
And the things that he had done.

Coming from a broken home
and abused by someone close
he said he fell...

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His underbelly is soft but please don't push his buttons

He looks rather docile if you simply leave him alone

Feeds on leaves and fruit and won't kill if you're tame

And respect the elegant majesty that treads...

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Cursed at birth, of anguish no dearth
For parents a liability, subject to partiality
Her studies are curtailed, her ambitions derailed
Childhood spent on household chores
Serving males one of her chores

Bound by chain, her childhood is slain!
Oh! The...

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If I become head of a country this is what I will do
Solve common problems of country men such that joy will ensue

Provide free food to all, life without food  most miserable
Criminals are born...

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WHARFIE

Twenty years ago I drove a bus in 1970 day or night, 
For Brisbane council yes I drove blue panthers I'm no skite. 
To New Farm Wharf I drove a load of passengers alright 
But...

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......"Leave you slumpt on the dutty streets........
...I dunno where you from..But....thats how its done in east".....

Was what a pathetic chav so full of snide had once said
Those words turned prophetic once he'd knifed a lad...

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[A slight rewrite of my 2018 poem]

In your modern nation
Your civilisation
Is under a threat from miniaturisation 
’cause one day they’ll make it and someone will fake it
A nice compact nuclear bomb...

That Clips on a rocket
That...

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Welcome to Far Town


On what forsaken endless shore,
Is grief a friend where Devil’s crawl?
Does all we have seen have no worth at all?
What end of time disaster is fate asking for?
Did you not know the...

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-For Asterion, who only became a monster because he was treated like one

Throw him in the pit where he belongs, 
Though he was not born naturally evil: no one is.
His mother had raised him with...

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In your modern nation
Your civilisation
Is under a threat from miniaturisation 
’cause one day they’ll make it, in China they’ll fake it
A nice compact nuclear bomb...

That Clips on a rocket
That fits in your pocket
And no one...

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Buttercups are dancing to singing daffodils
King Neptune, with his trident, is surfing down a hill
Rabbits playing hopscotch with rainbow coloured frogs
Snails with sparkly spinning shells slither along gold logs.

Wolves in sheep's clothing are bleating nonstop,
Four...

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All the world is burning
Seething in its juice
The odds of hate and the odds of fear
Have set the nations to fueling fires

And paranoia fills the awkward smiles
Of my neighbours precarious eyes  

Self defence becomes...

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Surrounded by selfish men who use us in every way, whole day
With utter disregard to our thoughts, feelings and what we say
Out of this situation we should find a way, inequality shouldn't stay

Oh women, wherever...

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Taekwondo
The way we flow
Our hands and feet
We put on show
Jumping spinning in the air
Striking out our target there
This mighty form of self defence
A contact sport so immense
Spectacular performance of an art
The hand and foot taking...

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I hear him rambling on about the way he makes a mess 
the way he eats his tomatoes then leaves with no confess 
the flowers have been bent in his garden's sanctuary 
he's a little...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 50

Each gets to keeping own while making up whole
No one need sacrifice distinct difference
Yet the total’s not a square peg kicked in goal

The idea’s the centrifugal force control
Not...

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