#1947 - don't risk it!

1947

6.121

1.v.25

don’t risk it!

 

we can’t afford

old Dog Whistle Dutton

Backflip Pete

Mr No

Mr Vote It Down

 

compassion lacker

hard boss

tough cop

Mr Punching Down

 

the butcher’s boy

Mr Missed the apology

Mr Failed First Year Uni

Mr Au Pair

Mr Money Mainly

 

the one who says ‘weak’

to bully

‘step out of the car’

cop knee to groin

he’ll punch

he won’t bruise

(not yet)

Mr Trip You Up for a good old laugh

 

he’s another one of the drill babies

Mr Smug, born to rule

and look at his front bench –

a talentless panic of muck

 

reds under the bed

Dutton, the divider

prophet of fear

profiteer

with the negative gear

magnate magnet

Rinehart’s cowboy

 

the coal man

shovel lover

capital gaining

a hater’s hater

 

lickspittle trumpety

blame the Chinese

 

gets that nuclear glow-in-the-dark

 

it’s none of him anything we can afford

 

 

put a few scribbles in a box –

it’s done

 

you really can’t risk this!

Labor to win clear majority, Coalition in trouble: YouGov poll

Federal Labor will govern with a clear majority while the Coalition will suffer its worst election result in 80 years, if YouGov’s final poll before the election comes true, AAP reports.

YouGov’s modelling points to an 84-seat win for the government, out of 150 lower house seats, to return the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, to The Lodge for a second term. The winning party needs 76 seats for a majority.

Under this scenario, the Coalition will drop to 47 seats – a net loss of 11 – meaning the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, will have led his party to its worst seat total since 1946.

Liberal frontbenchers David Coleman, Michael Sukkar and Dan Tehan would all lose their seats.

(Back row, left to right): Liberal frontbenchers Dan Tehan, Michael Sukkar and David Coleman are tipped to lose their seats, according to a YouGov poll. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

#1946 - the uses of the sun

 

1946

6.120

30.iv.25

the uses of the sun

renewables series

 

fires me up

gives me ideas

 

gets me out of bed

makes mornings

from the early hours

 

with risings, settings, steady on

your sun’s sovereign

measures all s

never not with

sine qua non  of shadow

 

sun tells horizon

shows up the webs in windows

lights the mirrors here, the moon  

 

shines every sea in turn

 

and bids the leaf, the flower

 

charges nothing, everything

 

who else can break through clouds

for the godbeam?

 

there’s winter for a hope

surely we’ll salute

 

in the name of light

 

what else is this hat for, the glasses

and the roof?

 

one day it will fizzle

some fast expansion first

then that won’t be a day at all

but let’s not trouble with this now

 

they say it will be a billion years

five billion from now

but what’s a year without the sun?

no one’s ever known

 

best then to be in the here and now

 

can’t you see?

that’s why!

 

how mainly it’s to go around

and come around again

though it’s we’re doing that

this the loveliest illusion!

 

nights when it hides

that’s just to be

someone else’s star 

#1945 - a lit mist

1945

6.119

29.iv.25

a lit mist

 

over the bridge

to bright

 

a brass fringe

blare and stretch

 

a blue above

blinding of day

 

it’s as with the afterfalls

all shine, so ripen

 

much washed

a world is now 

 

#1944 - a mudwalk in the rain

 

1944

6.118

28.iv.25

a mudwalk in the rain

Gore Cove Track Series

 

all roar

then here’s the creek telling out time

 

world’s empty now

it’s all indoors

 

who lands upon one’s arm may bite

 

stick sinks

this green laps up

 

and fungus white along

a mudwalk in

 

take on a downpour then

 

so many views the one place is

 

odd splash unintended

 

boardwalk mosstrot

a trickle down mulching for drip

 

it’s how we get to rot

 

look out the slippery bits

that’s wherever you go

 

slow steps for respect

 

the lizard stillness of a colour

I, to attention, too

 

you wouldn’t think to light a fire

 

hear upstairs birds consider for sky

but they’ll think better of