Category: Poem

A diversion to the Antipodes [Isaiah 52]

Posted on By pukeko
Yesterday I was talking to the hospital shuttle driver. He was hoping this morning was fine (it is out of town, but the son says it is foggy in town) because he is drumming in the Pipe band. The Crossfit box has one workout today . It is ANZAC day, and we recall that those of us in the antipodes have had brothers, uncles and fathers die on foreign fields from South Africa to Afghanistan. Read More

Sunday Holy Sonnet

Posted on By pukeko
Nine If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortall us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damn'd; Alas; why should I bee? Why should intent or reason, borne in mee, Make sinnes, else equall, in… Read More

Three quotes and a poem

Posted on By pukeko
The postmodern academy has decided everything is power. More fool them.
My remarks boiled down to the observation that theoretical anarchism (as opposed to the practical, bomb-throwing sort) is a gnostic sect. Its essential gnosis is that…
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Sunday Holy Sonnet

Posted on By pukeko
Apropos for Palm Sunday
If faithful souls be alike glorified As angels, then my father's soul doth see, And adds this even to full felicity, That valiantly I hell's wide mouth o'erstride: But if our minds to these souls be descried By…
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Bacchus on the couch, poem fragment.

Posted on By pukeko
Essay on Psychiatrists. Historical (The Bacchae) Madness itself, as an idea, leaves us confused— Incredulous that it exists, or cruelly facetious, Or stricken with a superstitious awe as if bound By the lost cults of Trebizond and… Read More

Aussie Poem.

Posted on By pukeko
Rescued from the Borg. And an excuse for beach photos and marsupials.
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, and damn big snakes in drains. Julian O'Dea
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Brexit: The English are best. [Kipple]

Posted on By pukeko
Brexit Secretary David Davis said tonight: 'Parliament has today backed the Government in its determination to get on with the job of leaving the EU and negotiating a positive new partnership with its remaining member states. 'We are now on the…
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