Sunday, November 29, 2015

Poems and Aphorisms 5


People

People are like books
Don’t judge a book by its cover
Want to know someone?
Talk to them
Conversation is like reading.


Australian anthem
O Anglo-Saxon
Questioning from where my parents hail
Your ancestors too from some land did sail
Stolen generation
Refugee detention
Aborigines then Asians now Muslims – same old White Nation
Aussie made we are!
(except for Chinese imports and American government manipulation)
True blue we stand united!
(except for the browns, blacks, and yellows that can’t be liquid-paper whitened)
Today we’re strangers, tomorrow we’ll be neighbours
Say G’day, lend a hand,
Do each other favours—
Celebrate the blessings
That the colourless God gave us


Roundabout

Round and round
Grinding circles of fate
Not sure how to exit
This roundabout

Round and round
Magnetic wheel of hate
Don’t know where to exit
This roundabout

Never learn from past experiences
Signs pointing which way to take
Missed many exits
In this roundabout

What it took was a crash
For me to exit
This roundabout

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