Paper Heart - newspaper of BOUD1CCA

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PADDYWOCKY

4 • Day 2,001, 05:21 • Published in Ireland Ireland

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There has been so much boasting & triumphalism in UK posts & boards,so I felt in only fair to commemorate their astounding success.

I felt a poem would be in order – it was a vision that came to me in the night following a beer & cheese function

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In Times of Oppression

8 • Day 1,916, 03:33 • Published in Australia

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Political debates and analysis

A Prayer in Times of Oppression
To every one of my oppressors
I am contemptible,
loathsome to my neighbours,
to my friends a thing of fear

Those who see me in the street
hurry past me;
I am forgotten, as good as dead in their hearts,
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We Will Become A Nation Again.

27 • Day 1,864, 21:54 • Published in Australia

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Political debates and analysis

From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue and pen,
From all the easy speeches,
That comfort cruel men,
From sale and profanation
Of honour and the sword
From sleep and from damnation,
Deliver us good Lord!
Tie in a living tether,

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Awake O Glorious Australia

12 • Day 1,859, 05:04 • Published in Australia

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Political debates and analysis

My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the working of his lie
On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored
Its edge, at one more victim

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A Damsel with a Dulcimer

8 • Day 1,855, 12:15 • Published in Australia

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Political debates and analysis

I love poetry & believe that it is the greatest muse.
A good poem can evoke strong images & feelings, can make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end.
And I intend to put poems in all my articles - for often they express how I feel about