Though our aim divine/
The delivery is human/
A labour of love
A haiku about Red Alert dedicated to John Hartevelt
Though our aim divine/
The delivery is human/
A labour of love
A haiku about Red Alert dedicated to John Hartevelt
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Perhaps you and Cunliffe could release an anthology:
http://www.fulbright.org.nz/voices/cunliffed-06.html
That’s not a haiku: the second line is supposed to have seven syllables, not eight like this one does.
You are right. fixed. Clare
Divine?
It’s a blog!
Inspired by idealism, compromising where necessary. Living down an imperfect past, with the future being a work in progress.
A haiku is quicker than an essay on values and pragmatism in conflict, or writing a speech on the state of the nation or party (wonder how Obama and then Key/Shearer will go).
I realise that some people may find this post somewhat obscure. A couple of weeks ago, John Hartevelt, who writes for Fairfax, wrote a blog post about Red Alert.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/blogs/the-whip/6268584/A-new-years-resolution-for-Labour
Subsequently, I wrote a haiku. I figured I would try my hand at poetry. The reason for writing it was flippant. The substance of the haiku isn’t, though the poet may be amateur.
John seems to have taken it all in good spirit and tried his hand at a response, which I think is quite good. Here’s what he wrote this afternoon on twitter:
jhartevelt John Hartevelt
@ @clarecurranmp @DrBrash I just write a blog / Poetry in my honour / I did not order
As the dying eel
drifts to the sea floor
Labour drifts into social media
Such a dextrous duck!
Shearing the lamb while clipping
rival’s wings mid-flight
The summer rains fall,
Hopes for better weather fade,
Shearer says nothing.
New Zealand lies still
A Prime Minister still lies
Going nowhere, blame Labour
“Greens white-ant; encroach”,
“Collins was the last woman”,
“Butcher has a choice”.
Give Warners millions
Reinsure failing bizness
Billions of dollars down the drain
Decisions are yours
Through choices we set our lives
No more excuses
Teach haiku in schools!
Half the contributors here
Dont know how to scan.
Daz, be fair, I think it’s just me who doesn’t know how to scan!
Not a haiku, but an ever-relevant political poem by my late mother. (By the way she was an award-winning, published haiku poet and said the 5,7,5 format was not always required)
The people’s party gave me a start
Now I’ve made my pile
Our ways must part
We need to take this Party back to its roots, he says,
From the dying embers of electoral failure
Then—Radio Live: apologetics for Rogernomics,
And the ruin of the provinces
Opportunity sighs!
By convoluted detours and bungling circumlocutions,
Back, not to principle, but to the roots of failure
Bought out by business backers
Wizened intellects wheeze out of tired hacks
Depression nestling down,
eventually begets egalitarian sentiment
Lost in the shadow of a single stride of History
Labour a glossy leaflet
Indifferently discarded in the gutters of time
Labour has the values! John Key did not want MMP that is DEMOCRACY in action. He is power hungry.
Further evidence of values of some National voters :
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/12719404/cheaters-more-likely-to-be-christian-and-support-national/
Labour – your opportunity to be the party of TRUST!!
Evan, correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t the 2008 election about trust?
Spring blooms a new hope
Bright Blue vision grows a fresh
Red October wilts
[Would help if we lived in the Northern Hemipshere]
Evan looks to the past
Reflect and you surely find
The red season is extinction in kind
Crimson sunset skies
Ease the day into night; red
Heralds the new dawn.
Our blind culture’s rules:
Promote need, leads to yield,
Nonsense reigns supreme
Communities hurt
Blamers point fingers only
to stall solutions
The blaming finger
Points not at its intended
victim, but at self.
Deciphered it meant
A brighter future for me
Not you, you losers
Autumn of a Red,
The refreshing winter Blue,
Springs a green banner.
Screw you guys I’m going home !
Red turns to Purple,
Green to Teal, and more droves
give up on voting
T.P.P.A aims:
Trick Public Perception Act
to rip all right off
Teapot tapes released
innocuous chat revealed
nothing to see here
slightlyrighty:
just distraction from
more important issues like
whole-sale ripoff deals
SJW
Herald and Canwest
make mountain out of molehill
who’s distracting who?
Lol slightlyrighty,
Herald and Canwest?
Wasting your time reading their
disinformation!
Banned for 3 months. Offensive. Clare
They killed Kenny!!!!