Stirring the pot (poem below)

Lamb curry

 

You will find more than 184 of my poems HERE. fno.org/poetry/index.html

 

Recently I have been horrified by war crimes committed by Putin and his mob and wrote 4 poems attacking him in my article, "Where have all the flowers gone?"

 

We must stop Putin now before he sweeps across Europe like Hitler did, gobbling up Romania, Bulgaria and other independent nations.

 

Stirring the pot

 

 

I have been known

Now and then

To stir a pot

Or two

Or three

To ask embarrassing questions

And aim poems at injustice

Avarice

And greed

 

I have

Now and then

Lobbed irony at hypocrisy

And fact-checked imposters

Clowns

And demagogues

 

I have stirred the pot

Added pepper flakes

And cooked up a hot sauce

Or two

Or three

From time to time

Laughing at the Emperor’s new clothes

Mocking the Pretender’s throng

And singing that old song

We shall overcome!

 

© Jamie McKenzie, all rights reserved

You will find more of my poems and songs here

and in The Storm in Its Passing and Flights of Fancy.

 

My songs are at

www.youtube.com/user/edtech2008/videos

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