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, ...
Sunday 26th January 2025 12:29 pm
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
Sunday 26th January 2025 7:18 am
Haiku for 2025 [No. 8. Infanticide]
don’t speak in my name!
murdered in incubators,
they won’t see this Spring
Saturday 25th January 2025 3:59 pm
Haiku for 2025 [No. 7. Peacemakers]
On London’s streets there’s
trouble for Jews with flowers.
Peacemakers aren’t blessed.
Friday 24th January 2025 10:04 pm
Haiku for 2025 [No. 5. À la Restaurant]
Here's The Last Supper,
Just Stop Oil’s doing porridge,
“Sunflowers, darling?”
Monday 20th January 2025 9:10 am
Haiku for 2025 [No. 4. True Peace or Pieces?]
Seek truth and justice.
Absence of war’s mere pretence!
True peace, not pieces.
Sunday 19th January 2025 7:58 pm
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...
Friday 17th January 2025 4:12 pm
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")
Thursday 16th January 2025 10:04 am
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!
Wednesday 15th January 2025 3:33 pm
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
Thursday 9th January 2025 12:09 pm
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
Tuesday 7th January 2025 6:28 pm
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.
Sunday 5th January 2025 10:50 pm
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 ...
Wednesday 1st January 2025 12:06 pm
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