Posted in Poems on Nov 18th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!With the world sliding towards the financial abyss at an ever increasing pace we must face up to the fact that we, as a generation, blew it. We can blame greedy financiers, the ’smart’ people who lost sight of [...]
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Posted in Poems on May 4th, 2008
There is no doubt in my mind that the biggest single scourge facing the planet is aids. There is considerable conjecture as to the origin of the disease and, in the early days such names as ‘gay plague’ were common. There is no doubt that the gay population is particularly vulnerable, but it had progressed [...]
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Posted in Poems on Feb 19th, 2008
Sorry to the aborigines.
The single biggest news item in Australia this week was the apology to the aboriginal people for past misdeeds committed by the whites. In particular a period we call ‘the stolen generation’ where aboriginal children were taken from their parents and placed in white homes to give them a ‘civilized’ upbringing.
There is [...]
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