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Showing posts with label mocking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mocking. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 03, 2026

COLONEL AMERICA CALLING

by Lynn White

The dove sat carefully on Liberty
lining her nest with down.
She cooed sweetly
but her new chick 
said ‘coo-ark’
mimicking her,
then ‘quark,
then ’yawp’
as it grew
stronger,
she saw

her cuckooed dove
hatchling
was a mocking bird,
calling
in New-Speak
straining
to be understood,
straining 
for more space, 
more gas, 
more gold, 
more

like 
a colonising colonel
balanced precariously
puffing out his dovey chest, 
as his eagle’s eye
preys south
then north,
the Middle
East
then West.
If we don’t clip his wings
where will he go next?

 
AI-generated graphic by Nightcafé for The New Verse News


Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality and writes hoping to find an audience for her musings. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Peach Velvet, Light Journal, and So It Goes.

Monday, August 05, 2024

HOW DARE SHE?

by Steven Kent


"Trump's usual sexist sneers don't work against Harris--and to top it off, she's laughing at him" —The Guardian, August 1, 2024



Don't need writers, don't need wits,

I'll just play my greatest hits:

Sexist jibes, election fables—

Hold on, Harris turned the tables?

Days ago my name was feared,

Now she stoops to call me weird?

No decorum; downright shocking;

Nasty woman—so much mocking!



Steven Kent is the poetic alter ego of writer and musician Kent Burnside. His work appears in 251, Asses of Parnassus, Light, Lighten Up Online, The New Verse News, Philosophy Now, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry, and Snakeskin. His collection I Tried (And Other Poems, Too) was published in 2023 by Kelsay Books.