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Steer away from extremes Australia'

Stay focused Australia..Do not follow extremists.' Hold your nerve.'
And the centre ground.'

T W O T types, all'

T W O T'S IN the media and on the bench.'
Black as sin, are the gowns that are meant
To instill fear.' Well they give me a laugh like
Bad theater actors..They have no heart.' For
The art.' No realization of reality.' Hell must
Be their room of rest.? When they gather do
They swagger.? And compare of whom they

O Rhyme, How I Express My Joy in Thee

O Rhyme! how I express my joy in thee;
     but sorrow drains desire, and grace received,
depriving me of your vivacious sea
     of gilded imagery. I deceived,

for happiness and cheer leap from my page:
     though melancholy, the womb of all odes,
the false bliss which

O flowers

O flowers, your soul is so beautiful,
I would like to know you all,
You populate so many vast gardens,
Your silences are filled with treasures,
O flowers, I cannot name all of you,
Neither compare you,
Petunias, Magnolias, orchids,
You undo my chains with a single attraction,
O benevolent angels, you offend no one,
A rose alone in a blue vase
Change the life

O deserve thy desires first

Pining for long, O longing heart,
If smacked art thou by a beauty,
If rocked by her assets thou art,
Should any charming face sway thee,
Earn first good deeds her to deserve,
Desires on their own seldom serve.
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Translation (sestet*) | 24.08.2025 | beauty, heart, women
*Wonder, if it can be called a Sestetto Rima-- iambic meter with a

Ye seem ill advised, O poets

With just one sharp look she dares and defies,
You still call a woman vulnerable, 
She casts lethal darts with enticing eyes,
And still…, poets you seem inscrutable,
When conquer can she e’en gods heavenly,
How helpless, wonder I can she e’er be.
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Translation (sestet*) | 22.08.2025 | poets, women 
*Wonder, if it can be called a Sestetto Rima--

S-O-S

Am I on an island launching bottles out to sea
beached at the waterline will someone rescue me
I'm drowning not waving as the boats go by
abandoned at high tide does anyone hear my cry
here am I sad to say writing messages in the sand
marooned a lonely castaway will somebody lend a hand
if I'm on an island

Pair o' D's

    "The moon’s crescent is prescient"
         sigh I to my love
     "presaging this lovely night's evanescence" 
          
     "Your eloquence is senescent"
     

O' MERCIFUL THIS WORLD CAN'T-

O' merciful O merciful full of American turmoil
Swallow me up maybe many and fight against me what kind of child of God am I
A child I am afraid
I will trust in thee alone
O' God I will praise His word and God

I have put my trust in you God I will
Not fear flesh can do 

Wake up O Inhabitants of this Earth ii

My Poem of 2009-10 resubmitted for new members of Poetry Soup.

Wake up O Inhabitants of this Earth    ii 
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Wake up before it is too late
Wake up before the misdeeds with Nature
Takes away with them, the best 
And the most beautifully nourished and preserved
Our priceless and most precious wealth
The ice from Mountains, Glaciers

B I N G O

I caught me a Dingo
I named that dog Bingo
He was no more than three

He watched o'er my nippers
And fetched me my slippers
What a good dog was he

One day while out walking
I heard people talking 
They were talking 'bout we

"Look at you and that dog"
"That cur smells like a hog"
"You should set that mutt free"

"Since you've

Wake up O Inhabitants of this Earth I of 2

My Poem of 2010 on Poetry Soup  "Wake up O Inhabitants of this Earth 1"
was a warning for the world leaders  to stop playing with Nature. I am resubmitting it for my Poetry Soup friends of 2025.
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Wake up O Inhabitants of this Earth 1
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Wake up O, inhabitants of this earth, 
The darling children

Something's Jumping In The Pumpkin Patch

Sneaking through the graveyard
in the dead of night
to a hidden garden
in full moonlight
you want to be careful better beware
the fiery eyes
of the scarecrow's stare
if the spell is broken
you open Pandora's Box
and it's lights out
for the jack-o-lanterns
they're in for a nasty shock
you have to be careful better beware
the Halloween screams
of your worst nightmare
'cause something's jumping in

Briefer art thou, better O Life

Ever since we called thee as grief O Life,
Heavy hast thou turned, light as leaf O Life.

Not sprightly, but nigh painful do thou feel
As if ye climb up a stiff cliff O Life. 

Hence, thought up I have this remedial pill:
To bestow thee boost of life brief O Life.
  
In this world, unfortunate seems

Give me such grief, O God

Ere I die, such a life give me, O God,
That I get unaware of me, O God,

So that my heart’s pain hover not on tongue,
Lifeless helplessness so heavy, O God,

That, on gulping oceans I go quenchless,
Give me quenchless quench so dreary, O God.

Give me downpours of pain, night of sorrows,
When did I say make me

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