Poetry

Thursday, 24 February 2022

Mighty Night

 Guaranteed chaos

A cocktail of lies

Misinterpretation

On a grand scale

The tale of the dragon flies


wreaking rack and ruin

The combination of trash

and nations, who throw their waste

Into their neighbour's gardens


While our trees were being blown over

By Storm Eunice, Dudley and Franklin

A far bigger storm was brewing over Ukraine

As Russia readied itself for war

Hiding its intention behind

Barely veiled lies

And smoke and mirror tactics


Only the sleeping West and central Europe

Whose population has been prepared for this ally 

With Russia

For Hungary will want their country back

To expand their borders is what Orban wants

This is his dream come true

With one hand dealing with the West

While under the table

Shaking hands with Russia

Letting the enemy in at the gates

Nothing is new

And we have seen it all before

Well the pendulum swings from West to East

From left to right

And we find ourselves at war


It was always going to happen

It was the gathering storm

The weakness of a complacent Europe

Too happy and comfortable in their freedoms

Too ready to ignore the signs

And the strengthening of Russia

The Soviet Block

Will be putting back up its iron wall

Rock by bloody rock

Monday, 21 February 2022

2020 visions

 in twenty twenty

I wish'd seen what twenty twenty two would have been

But if I saw or if I'd seen

I'd have had to have had a time machine

For nothing's lost and nothing's gained

But what we remember in our brains

And vision of a future scene

Is not worth as much as having been

And lived the life that could have been or should have been


Somethings are given and some forgiven

Some are taken and some forsaken

And if you make or try to shake them

In the kaleidoscope of dreams

Well shadows awaken in shallow streams

And darkness creeps into forgettable seams

You thought you'd papered over 

And glued shut the cracks

But being human means there are things man lacks

And woman too is not perfect

Only she needs to be reminded 

While showing sufficient respect

I can't help it

 íI can't stop staring at Nazis

I can't stop staring at Nazis

It's not fair,

They're right there


I'm in a central European bar

In a town name Miskolcz

And my girlfriend

Is ordering a slovakian snaps

I'm sitting at the table

And looking around at the scene

And there is a skin head nazi young man

Staring back at me


I can't stop staring at Nazis, I can't stop staring at Nazis

And it's unfair

It's so unfair

The Disadvantaged youth

Separated fromtheir father's love

It's the truth

They look for a system that gives them back their pride

Scapegoating the Jews

Making asylum seekers run and hide

Yet I can't help staring at Nazis

There is something so vulnerable there

Like they want to be looked after like babies

Which is why they shave their hair

They all look the same like in an army

They can fit in without an identity

And that is perfect for they don't know who they are

Oh I can't help staring at a Nazi in a bar

And he comes over to my table and sits down at my side, his girlfriend is waiting for him

But does he want me for his bride?

Is he going to punch me or tell me step outside?

Oh I can't help staring at Nazis whether I live or die

He talks some crazy language and I don't understand 

Then my girlfriend comes back

And he shrinks a bit

And we just keep on drinking through the night


Perhaps he wasn't a Nazi, he just had that kind of look

As a lot of them do around this town

It is their kind of hook

I don't suppose I'll return,

Though there was a nice old castle

If I see any more Nazis I'm going to explode

And they'll have to post me home in a parcel 


Sunday, 20 February 2022

Round the clock

 The Queen is nine to five

No she is 95

Saturday, 19 February 2022

Future geology

Out of the bag, the cat and the hag

The rat of remembrance is gnawing the flag

And Bat of apology hangs from his nook

In the cave of calligraphy where everyone took

Photographs of humans

On Instagram and Twitter

And Cave art that lasted no longer than litter

That was blown away in the breeze of archaeological storm

That blew out the internet and left us forlorn

The young wandered round bereft and torn

Because nothing was left them since when they were born

Like new lambs they wandered out into the wild

And really were as vulnerable as a little child

Without their TikToks and their instant messaging

The did not know how to communicate and it

was all second guessing

As times hand turned slowly 

They learnt to survive

In the graveyard of the internet

Without hollow lives

And things so superficial

Their relations to each other

Became strong once again

Like their love for their mother

And the dumb still got eaten

The sick and the lame

They lay down and were beaten again and again

But they never gave up

They kept trying in vain

Though not vain for beauty sweetens

Even the direst of pain

And The sun still shines out behind the rain

So don't lose heart my friend

For a new light will come again

 


StormZ

 

List of named storms (Z)

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Storms are named for historical reasons to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one storm can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. For tropical cyclones, names are assigned when a system has one-, three-, or ten-minute winds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph). Standards, however, vary from basin to basin. For example, some tropical depressions are named in the Western Pacific, while within the Australian and Southern Pacific regions, the naming of tropical cyclones are delayed until they have gale-force winds occurring more than halfway around the storm center.

This list covers the letter Z .

Storms[edit]

Note: dagger indicates the name was retired after that usage in the respective basin
  • Zack
    • 1992 – tropical storm that remained over the open western Pacific Ocean
    • 1995 – Category 4 equivalent typhoon that struck the Philippines and Vietnam, killing 110 people
  • Zaka
    • 1996 – weak tropical cyclone that passed near New Caledonia, causing minor damage
    • 2011 – tropical cyclone that dissipated northeast of New Zealand, causing no damage
  • Zane
    • 1996 – Category 3 equivalent typhoon that crossed the Ryukyu Islands
    • 2013 – developed and dissipated between Queensland and Papua New Guinea
  • Zazu (2020) – tropical cyclone that brought heavy surf to Niue and hurricane-force wind gusts to Tonga, but caused no significant damage
  • Zeb (1998) – Category 5 equivalent typhoon that killed 122 people when it struck Luzon
  • Zelia
    • 1998 – tropical cyclone that developed near Cocos Islands
    • 2011 – severe tropical cyclone that brought heavy rainfall to New Zealand as an extratropical cyclone
  • Zeke
    • 1991 – passed over the Philippines before hitting Hainan with minimal damage
    • 1992 – tropical storm off the southwestern Mexican coast
    • 1994 – remained east of Japan
  • Zelda
    • 1991 – left heavy damage in the Marshall Islands
    • 1994 – powerful typhoon that took a large, circuitous track through the western Pacific Ocean
  • Zena (2016) – killed two people while passing near Fiji
  • Zeta
    • 2005–06 – remained out at sea; only the second Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to span two calendar years
    • 2020 – a late-season Category 3 hurricane that made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula and then in southeastern Louisiana
  • Zia (1999) – moved across Japan, killing nine
  • Zigzag (2003) – tropical storm that made landfall in northeastern Mindanao
  • Zita
    • 1997 – killed 345 people when it struck southern China
    • 2007 – passed through French Polynesia
  • Zoe
    • 1974 – moved along the coast of Queensland
    • 2002 dagger – strongest South Pacific tropical cyclone on record in terms atmospheric pressure; affected the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Rotuma
  • Zola
    • 1990 – Category 3 equivalent typhoon that struck Japan, killing 3 people
    • 1993 – tropical storm that made landfall in Japan causing some flooding
  • Zoraida (2013) – killed 44 people while moving through the Philippines and Vietnam
  • Zorbas (2018) – Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone that formed and reached Category 1 equivalent strength
  • Zosimo (2004) – moved through the Marshall Islands
  • Zuman
    • 1987 – short-lived and weak storm that did not approach any islands
    • 1998 – struck Espiritu Santo as a Category 1 cyclone

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References[edit]

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