Palaver Poems

Rhyme but no Reason for Treason Silly Season

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Damn it the planet’s on fire

Concerning..right down to the wire

Burning on its funeral pyre spire


I’m for turning.. where’s the messiah?

A heavenly choir…so we can aspire

That le...

The boy called a LUNATIC by Blossom Monyei

...The Boy They Called a Lunatic

By Blossom Monyei

I was just a kid, about 12 years old,
when Joseph Nyumah Boakai’s wife asked my landlord to send his son, Francis, to work at her house.
At tha...

The Draw breaks Bazball Law

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According to Bazball law, deplore the days of yore, hell bent..ignore what went before

Why even mull over a tie..cull every dull lull…do or die super nova…run rates soar…can chase whatever they ...

Bazball or Bazbat goes soft and flat

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Alright have to admit that whole drole Bazball or Baz Bat cool cat vibe…rabbit out of hat tribe.. is taking its toll..sunk in a hole..losing it’s goal and soul..not being a vitriol troll..maybe nee...

Gone Fishing

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Despairing seafaring..can be

Lore of days of yore

Glories or gory

Bold stories told 

Foreshore folklore

Hemingway’s…Old 

Man and the Sea


Smiles..feeling chipper

Like a wee...

Blowing a helluva Hooley

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Rarely not windy
In the far flung
Squarely unfairly unsung
Seriously deliriously magical

Mystical..mythical Catlins
Rather adept at being 
Scarily palaver kept..
Wild & warily windswept

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AoTEARoa aka New Zealand

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Spine chilling velocity
Willing feverish ferocity
Pollution spilling atrocity
Pushes our buttons
Top billing forging
Fiendish drilling pomposity
Gluttons gorging in the isles of muttons

Co...

Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks

...Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks (tongue in cheek peek at Dunedin's historic deluge)


"Stares upstairs..

Angels’ weeing above..

Be a good chap..

Show some love bruv..

Turn off the ta...

Siddhartha translation by Michael R Burch

...Siddhartha (The Buddha) 
by Hermann Hesse
translation by Michael R. Burch

In the house-shade,
by the sunlit riverbank beyond the bobbing boats,
in the Salwood forest’s deep shade,
beneath the...

What's The Point?

...You assume I'm interested 

In all your pointless palaver 

I'd rather spend quality time

With your grandmother's cadaver 

It's yackety yackety yack

You're always burning up my ears

I...

congressmen

...congressmen/women
senators palaver ....
expensive hot air    ...

Dream State Yields Deep Sleep Personifications

...Dream state yields deep sleep personifications

Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to the webbed wide world,
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Wild Swimmers

...We are all true wild swimmers 
You swim everyday and dive through the waves,
Look great in a swimsuit and your hairdo behaves. 
You have all the gear and it coordinates, you always seem glam on th...

The Chuckle Brothers

...Woke up this morning with a head
This is the curse when you try to change the world
Gave Mary just a slight hint Tony might be bedding Jill, Joan, not excluding Alice
Big John, definitely gay, but...

Smith

...I am Irish,
I do not patter a brogue, not lilt, or prate the Celtic.
I’m annexed English, cockney, a dead queens piglish,
chameleon tongued.

Something took me, shook me like a spade
until an u...

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