1.
A time to reign, a time to say goodbye
A time to swap chairs and play to the music
A new beat to an old tune: ladies first.
2.
Then, give this man another chance
Let him take the favourite armchair
While we discuss last week’s history
3.
A nation fast asleep staggers to the morning news
Turns over a new leaf and finds comfort
In a leader who changes the colour of his hair.
4.
I wanted Kevin, I got Julia
I wanted Julia, I got Kevin
Either way, I am a lucky man.
© Martha Landman
Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard 57-45 in Labor leadership ballot, paving way for a return to PM
Martha Landman has published poetry in various online poetry magazines like Everyday Poets, The New Verse News, Eunonia Review, Dr Huley's Snake Oil Cure, and others. She lives, loves and writes in tropical North Queensland Australia.
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Monday, 1 July 2013
Send us Ed – or we’ll cry
They seek him here
They seek him there
They seek that Snowden everywhere
Paranoia’s hardened their veins
Cold War blood runs hot again
“Traitorous scum” their vocal cords cry
They don’t want their filthy secrets hung out to dry
They demand the right
To have them tucked up tight
In a cupboard, next to their .45s
And anyway, it’s their inalienable right
To peer through your laptop screen
Monitor your being
Analyse your soul
They’re the land of the free – don’t you know?
And they get angry, spiteful and rude
When the universe won’t play by their rules
Or when some scared Ordinary Ed
Decides he’s got a conscience instead of a need
To break human law for greed
And right-wing creed
The US again turns its back on the Earth
Uses a prism to peer at the world
While a petrified man’s forced to stay low
Just because he had the guts to say “no!”.
©Simon Marks
My name is Simon Marks, I'm a journalist by trade, in my mid-40s, write non-journalistic stuff for a hobby.
For more info, go to http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/marksy
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