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Send your submissions to [email protected] and include Title in the subject bar and they will be published on this page. In time they will feature in their own book. Good luck!
April 19, 2024
Incompetence
She stands in the corner
not working, stood wishing to go home
I stand at the counter, serving
trying to ignore the screaming in my head
'Do some flipping work, you incompetent fool, you do NOTHING!'
Then complain of being tired
I am not incompetent, I work hard
even when life gets difficult
but there are some who dilly dally
who hide in the background
or who get tired picking up a doughnut
I am very competent
thirteen years I spent as a care assistant
now I am competent in a different way
I serve people, I stand, I smile
but some people lack this
but I forever will stand and smile
be me, be competent.
Kate Geoghegan
March 18, 2024
Corruption
Cancer
Cells grow, multiply,
infiltrate, permeate, kill,
Cancer is corruption.
Leela Gautam
Non-stop entertainment
Joe and Jill are so willing to unite the American states
to erase the Donald’s dictatorship and take away the hates
restoring former prominent leadership on the world stage
with a kinder positive energy, despite their senior age.
So Kamala’s creating diversion and her lawyer by her side
they’re committed to work together to reverse the downhill slide
and they’re getting down to business, acting on their promises
working for favorable opinions of all those doubting Thomas’s.
With an eye on their loyal citizens and all the talk show hosts
they’ve committed to positive influence in their social media posts
such an egotistical super power with so many lofty goals
they’re going to need a miracle to console all those wanting souls.
Non-stop entertainment, with a mix of expert wit
it’s in the news it’s on the web, I don’t want to miss a bit
such mystery mixed with drama and comedy mixed with sex
I’m heading for my easy chair to watch what happens next.
Don Hamaliuk
Endless political humor
IMPEACH HIM, IMPEACH HIM, I think we’ve had enough
four years of negative leadership has been so very rough
the pandemic was handled poorly, from a leadership perspective
and the maintenance of social justice has been sadly ineffective.
The whole world is watching, every tweet has been a joke
why would anyone say that; he must be on that funny smoke
other leaders have been crazy, but this guy takes the cake
his accounts have all been cancelled; enough for goodness sake.
“Make America Great Again”, was just a deceptive mission
and the way it was handled, we should be calling a mortician
but keep your pencils handy, for this four years will show
there’ll be endless political humor in good OLD President Joe.
Don Hamaliuk
Presidential elections
Corruption breeds disruption,
an eruption will take place...!
Voting counts are misspent,
there is dissent, in this place!
People are objecting, without exception,
there's deception, in this race!
The election has been rigged,
population tricked, the vote numbers tipped!
Let's pour ink into this stink,
in a blink, they may rethink...
The election is false, unfair,
now we're firmly in the president's snare!
Laura Sanders
Corruption
A man is what he is and there’s no bodyshop for modification
and a woman, one of God’s greatest creations
so instead of a knife as a remedy proposed
let this elite be sworn in and deposed
and testify why a child’s emotions are resolved by mutilation
a euphemism doesn’t cover the tracks of this injustice
deceit is the true term to all whom they are entrusted
leave a paper trail of great consultation
a youth’s consent will deny litigation
but after, will you answer the patient’s “why” when confronted?
Were the Greek’s tenets not plain and palpable?
Heed his warnings on abuse of the scalpel
look inside then before you join the other thieves
look at your plaque, don’t rob the confused and deceived
desist or prepare for the wee hours to grapple and grapple
even the ancients swore medical ethos above hypocrisies
the Greeks wouldn’t bow then nor now to altars adorned in medical mockery.
Is there not one from his own in his debt?
Healer be heard and cry out against the obvious threat
and stop the assassination of Hippocrates
a woman is one of God’s great creations.
Tom Bowler
Corruption
DCI Bob Blameless,
was about to come a cropper.
He had been taking backhanders for years,
and was your archetypal bent copper.
Bob had been clever though,
he ran a highly sophisticated racket.
He was happy with just a drip feed of cash,
and had made a nice little packet.
Protection was our friend Bob’s game
played out south of the water.
He had a small team he thought he could trust,
including his wife and daughter.
His heavies included two other cops,
Sergeants Bopham and Bounce.
Wifie and daughter just stayed at home,
handling the accounts.
B&B were the strong-arm boys,
Bob just applied the brain.
One day B&B, wife and daughter vanished,
never to be seen again.
Bob wasn’t too concerned,
he thought they were having a joke.
Then something happened to change his mind,
and made the poor man choke.
He was approached by his chief at the coffee machine,
who said, “Apologies for the interruption,
Detective Chief Inspector Bob Blameless,
I’m charging you with corruption.”
Garry Davidson
Incompetence
She stands in the corner
not working, stood wishing to go home
I stand at the counter, serving
trying to ignore the screaming in my head
'Do some flipping work, you incompetent fool, you do NOTHING!'
Then complain of being tired
I am not incompetent, I work hard
even when life gets difficult
but there are some who dilly dally
who hide in the background
or who get tired picking up a doughnut
I am very competent
thirteen years I spent as a care assistant
now I am competent in a different way
I serve people, I stand, I smile
but some people lack this
but I forever will stand and smile
be me, be competent.
Kate Geoghegan
March 18, 2024
Corruption
Cancer
Cells grow, multiply,
infiltrate, permeate, kill,
Cancer is corruption.
Leela Gautam
Non-stop entertainment
Joe and Jill are so willing to unite the American states
to erase the Donald’s dictatorship and take away the hates
restoring former prominent leadership on the world stage
with a kinder positive energy, despite their senior age.
So Kamala’s creating diversion and her lawyer by her side
they’re committed to work together to reverse the downhill slide
and they’re getting down to business, acting on their promises
working for favorable opinions of all those doubting Thomas’s.
With an eye on their loyal citizens and all the talk show hosts
they’ve committed to positive influence in their social media posts
such an egotistical super power with so many lofty goals
they’re going to need a miracle to console all those wanting souls.
Non-stop entertainment, with a mix of expert wit
it’s in the news it’s on the web, I don’t want to miss a bit
such mystery mixed with drama and comedy mixed with sex
I’m heading for my easy chair to watch what happens next.
Don Hamaliuk
Endless political humor
IMPEACH HIM, IMPEACH HIM, I think we’ve had enough
four years of negative leadership has been so very rough
the pandemic was handled poorly, from a leadership perspective
and the maintenance of social justice has been sadly ineffective.
The whole world is watching, every tweet has been a joke
why would anyone say that; he must be on that funny smoke
other leaders have been crazy, but this guy takes the cake
his accounts have all been cancelled; enough for goodness sake.
“Make America Great Again”, was just a deceptive mission
and the way it was handled, we should be calling a mortician
but keep your pencils handy, for this four years will show
there’ll be endless political humor in good OLD President Joe.
Don Hamaliuk
Presidential elections
Corruption breeds disruption,
an eruption will take place...!
Voting counts are misspent,
there is dissent, in this place!
People are objecting, without exception,
there's deception, in this race!
The election has been rigged,
population tricked, the vote numbers tipped!
Let's pour ink into this stink,
in a blink, they may rethink...
The election is false, unfair,
now we're firmly in the president's snare!
Laura Sanders
Corruption
A man is what he is and there’s no bodyshop for modification
and a woman, one of God’s greatest creations
so instead of a knife as a remedy proposed
let this elite be sworn in and deposed
and testify why a child’s emotions are resolved by mutilation
a euphemism doesn’t cover the tracks of this injustice
deceit is the true term to all whom they are entrusted
leave a paper trail of great consultation
a youth’s consent will deny litigation
but after, will you answer the patient’s “why” when confronted?
Were the Greek’s tenets not plain and palpable?
Heed his warnings on abuse of the scalpel
look inside then before you join the other thieves
look at your plaque, don’t rob the confused and deceived
desist or prepare for the wee hours to grapple and grapple
even the ancients swore medical ethos above hypocrisies
the Greeks wouldn’t bow then nor now to altars adorned in medical mockery.
Is there not one from his own in his debt?
Healer be heard and cry out against the obvious threat
and stop the assassination of Hippocrates
a woman is one of God’s great creations.
Tom Bowler
Corruption
DCI Bob Blameless,
was about to come a cropper.
He had been taking backhanders for years,
and was your archetypal bent copper.
Bob had been clever though,
he ran a highly sophisticated racket.
He was happy with just a drip feed of cash,
and had made a nice little packet.
Protection was our friend Bob’s game
played out south of the water.
He had a small team he thought he could trust,
including his wife and daughter.
His heavies included two other cops,
Sergeants Bopham and Bounce.
Wifie and daughter just stayed at home,
handling the accounts.
B&B were the strong-arm boys,
Bob just applied the brain.
One day B&B, wife and daughter vanished,
never to be seen again.
Bob wasn’t too concerned,
he thought they were having a joke.
Then something happened to change his mind,
and made the poor man choke.
He was approached by his chief at the coffee machine,
who said, “Apologies for the interruption,
Detective Chief Inspector Bob Blameless,
I’m charging you with corruption.”
Garry Davidson