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

by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

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Seek truth and justice.

Absence of war’s mere pretence!

True peace, not pieces.

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Sunday 19th January 2025 7:58 pm

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England [Stop the Boots!]

by Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

…and did those boots in World War time,

Stamp around England’s pleasant land:

And were those Blackshirt fascist sods,

From Cable Street off-seen!

 

Never did we countenance a time,

When journalists would see th’ Old Bill!

At dawn, a-knocking on their doors,

For telling truth, with fear instilled!

 

We must not cease Evil to Fight,,

Nor must my pen sleep in my hand...

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Monday 2nd September 2024 12:48 pm

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