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Haiku for 2025 [No. 9. Testicles]

Good Morning Britain!

An Islamophobic prick

Talking Testicles.

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I swear to tell the … the Whole … and Nothing but the … ! [or The Client Hack’s Tale]

The Berlin Holocaust Memorial is stark.

For the Tool though, those Stelae made a brilliant backdrop

to his ‘Twenty-Two election publicity lark;

The Shoa, he reduced to a pantomime prop,

Behind you, behind you! Look, Sir, it’s the …!

 

At Auschwitz yer man is on ‘Twenty-Five’s photo-shoot,

The strain in his face, act studiously honed

to show that he cares, oh, look at him, ...

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Triple Haiku for 2025 [No.1. ❤ Love’s ❤ Revolt ❤]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the world weeps: enough!

set Palestine’s people free

 love’s the only way

stokers of hate’s fire

tried to bury love’s dissent

but buried good seed

we’re now growing strong

our shoots dance in winds of change

love, bring Spring’s revolt!

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh 25th January 2025

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Haiku for 2025 [No. 8. Infanticide]

don’t speak in my name!

murdered in incubators,

they won’t see this Spring

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Haiku for 2025 [No. 7. Peacemakers]

On London’s streets there’s

trouble for Jews with flowers.

Peacemakers aren’t blessed.

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Haiku for 2025 [No. 6. Auschwitz]

Auschwitz? forgotten!

Objectors to Genocide

repressed in Britain.

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Haiku for 2025 [No. 5. À la Restaurant]

Here's The Last Supper,

Just Stop Oil’s doing porridge,

“Sunflowers, darling?”

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Haiku for 2025 [No. 4. True Peace or Pieces?]

Seek truth and justice.

Absence of war’s mere pretence!

True peace, not pieces.

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Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm [The World As I See It]

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm is not allowed,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm enjoy cheap thrills,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, I’m well-endowed,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, a bottle of Pils,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, upon my knees,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, the seven seas.

 

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm, my boots did shine,

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm the milky way,

qwertyuiop...

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Taking the Mic

I'm recording with my Yeti,

but nothing rhymes with Beano,

now, sing along with me and Betty,

'Green grow the rushes-o'.

😁😁😁 (or for the sake of the literati who take their humour seriously: "the rushes grow green-o")

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Limerick for 2025 [No.3. Don't Mention the War!]

Don’t mention the war, when chez Basil,

one mentions the war at one’s peril:

it's the war Jerry started,

in Tom’s face he had farted:

yes, sauerkraut’s bouqet's far from floral!

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Lowku for 2025 [No. 1]

With corrections.

Is é an sruthan éadomhain a labhraíonn go dána,

his glass, now empty’s loudly ringing,

from shallow source, his water’s springing,

with fewer lines, his song would be finer.

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh 9th January 2025

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Limerick for 2025 [No.2. Sir Khan Can!]

Congrat’s due to you, Sir Sadiq,

The fascists’ New Year’s looking bleak,

A brown man’s been honoured,

He’s top of his manor.

Who's having a right fit of pique?

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh 5th January 2025

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Limerick for 2025 [no.1]

I once had a whirlwind romance,

with a snowman I’d met at a dance:

though his name, it was Dick,

he’d less carrot than stick,

and sweet bugger all in his pants.

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Haiku for 2025 [No. 3. What change?]

Government snow: lies,

shallow as their promises,

newly-fallen, melts.

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اَللَّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ Alahu Akbar! God is Great! [A celebration of British values]

My mother had a habit, when times were bad, for example when dad had lost his job, of uttering the phrase: “God is good!”, an expression of her Christian faith and hope. The expression: “Thank God for that!”, is an everyday one of gratitude, as of course is “goodbye”, derived from “God be with you”; a similarly used Arabic phrase forms the title of my sonnet.

My republican instincts lead me to ...

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