John O Sonnet

dylan

2025-04-16T19:05:00.000-07:00

John Armstrong jambawan@gmail.com

Tue, 2 Jul 2024, 02:08

to John

With your mercury mouth in the missionary times, And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes, And your silver cross, and your voice like chimes, Oh, who among them do they think could bury you? With your pockets well protected at last, And your streetcar visions which you place on the grass, And your flesh like silk, and your face like glass, Who among them do they think could carry you? Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands, Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes, My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums, Should I put them by your gate, Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait? With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace, And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace, And your basement clothes and your hollow face, Who among them can think he could outguess you? With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands, Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes, My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums, Should I leave them by your gate, Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait? The kings of Tyrus with their convict list Are waiting in line for their geranium kiss, And you wouldn't know it would happen like this, But who among them really wants just to kiss you? With your childhood flames on your midnight rug, And your Spanish manners and your mother's drugs, And your cowboy mouth and your curfew plugs, Who among them do you think could resist you? Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands, Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes, My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums, Should I leave them by your gate, Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait? Oh, the farmers and the businessmen, they all did decide To show you the dead angels that they used to hide. But why did they pick you to sympathize with their side? Oh, how could they ever mistake you? They wished you'd accepted the blame for the farm, But with the sea at your feet and the phony false alarm, And with the child of a hoodlum wrapped up in your arms, How could they ever, ever persuade you? Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands, Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes, My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums, Should I leave them by your gate, Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait? With your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row, And your magazine-husband who one day just had to go, And your gentleness now, which you just can't help but show, Who among them do you think would employ you? Now you stand with your thief, you're on his parole With your holy medallion which your fingertips fold, And your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul, Oh, who among them do you think could destroy you? Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands, Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes, My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums, Should I leave them by your gate, Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?

how do we know ?

2025-04-01T22:16:00.000-07:00

Now look! we've baulked and missed it

No go to the university research funding there's

Clear evidence from the United States that Aukus

Will likely fail leaving Oz without submarines

From 2030 but when Malcom Turnbull asks

What is Plan ? he is told to stop undermining the project

Meanwhile Dutton in the hall of smoke and mirrors

Proposes cuts to education , health and the ABC !

Iz rail enforces blockade on Gazan bakery So...

Many kids face starvation along with everything else

But ...

The Greens are protecting the natural environment

Advocating for social justice and welfare payments

It proposes rent freezes , taxing billionaires to fund dental & mental care

UNWHO ?

2025-03-28T16:56:00.000-07:00

With Double breasted hi viz jackets

Adorned with brass buttons they marched in time

The date was set and then reset again

More or less out of money independents

All the way from Flinders to the West coast

Tropical Cyclone provided the cover needed

Fifty thousand dollars for billboards on freeway

All gone down the gurgler now whisked away

In a jiff it's on again for young and old

Climate 200 will pitch in but still , fair go

Getting on the blower and begging , bingo

Chook raffles round the fire place polka

Now look we baulked and missed it

No go on the university research funding

Trombone Patriots

2025-03-23T20:50:00.000-07:00

At what price survival as conquerors ?

How curious said the well dressed white rabbit

This is religion is it not , or art ?

Well ! Alice walked on, the faster she walked

The less progress she made the mud engulfed

Her galoshes and the rain ran down her cheeks

She had loved to reread what he'd wrote for her

She'd share it with the twins on lonely nights

Waiting for the dawn to light up the sky

They would always remember her stories

The preciousness of life abided there in

With Double breasted hi viz jackets

Adorned with brass buttons they marched in time

Who researches what ?

2025-03-20T17:21:00.000-07:00

Should it be up to our chancellors to decide ?

Now Albo is asked to identify students with Han links

To confirm that all kids are compliant to he she blinks

To ascertain whether or not they've worked for communists

Or have they inclusion and diversity elements in their CV s

Universities now fear doc glitches from porn hub 5 eyes

They do not want to loose defense money for guns & drones

Chancellors I do declare this is real foreign interference

Dragons in the year of the snake mate ! Not about tax cuts

But lining up the D train , don't complain you'll be next

The LNP are not ALP nor liberal just Nationals

With a yellow streak right down their back, call Clive!

If youse want to stay alive, wear the AUKUS deficit

Cut welfare instead & decency & common sense

Emergency is the escape clause , beware

2025-03-13T20:20:00.000-07:00

All alarams sent out on the internet

Shouldn't it be up to our universities to decide

Who researches what and for how long ???

Now we are asked to dob in Chinese students

As if twenty somethings obey their parents

Do all students fit into the new two gender policy ?

Are they involved in diversity equity inclusion actions?

Universities are afeared they may loose funding ...

For drone research gun development programs

This is for sure foreign interference! Seriously ?

Also yesterday unions were raided , computers

And current and historical documents were seized

Criminal allegations have been made intelligence sent

To AFP plus... "bad faith actors" reported to local cops

la ville natale et la langue maternelle

2025-03-12T20:06:00.000-07:00

Home town cuisine on the air port menu

Happy with folks smiling at me on zoom

We watch out together for twilight scams

Fresh washed linen in a curtained off ward

The serial panic of the no hopalition

Constantly complaining about neighbors

Dob in a Muslim praying on their Mat

Shaved head in heat wave no panama Hat

Let's walk we'll have a talk what's a safe bet?

If any one is left in the trades hall

Get out now leave all behind break the glass

On your way outside the fire brigade heeds

All alarams sent on the internet

Francophonia in the Anglosphere

2025-03-11T16:26:00.000-07:00

Redoubling of fetishist fascist inversion

Is dominating now . On the news, in our feeds

In direct self awareness we are interpolated

As free agents permanently choosing stuff

Thereby responsible for our own fate

Free market ideology is ubiquitous

We are constantly bombarded by

Consumer options , marketing ploys

Indebted hire purchase offers , We vary

From our neighbor only in terms of volumes

Of our burdens . Bourgeois society obliterates

Caste to create a level playing field of consumers

Divided into class categories and language groups

la ville natale et la langue maternelle

Jesu 's Guide for the unperplexed .

2025-03-10T17:41:00.000-07:00

Since in our society freedom of choice is elevated

Into the highest of all possible supreme values

Social control and habituated domination

Can no longer appear as the very self experience

There is a multiple of forms in this unfreedom

That are appearing in the guise of it's opposite

When we are deprived of health care for example

We are told we have been given a brand new freedom

Freedom of choice to pick our own private provider

When we can no longer rely on stable employment

We are compelled to search for precarious contracts

We are told we've been given a chance re invent ourselves

As entrepreneurs of the self acting like capitalists

Who choose to invest in education and travel

Minnie Morris Men

2025-03-05T18:19:00.000-08:00

Walking along casually at university in Autumn

Land writes life to the community of old for young

Stabilize some what staying in the shade kept appointments

Keep track by phone protected capital class passed by

Generations of slaves will be grateful , surely

Their elders who have been given life by women

Make savings that are sensible ways to put food on the table

Walking soft pine needle ground lying around

Spending what was locked by my front gate

Economic growth makes sense to some in home knits

Ideology impinges and so we eat quietly at home

What else can I say take it easy Micky ...

You are after all just a post war invention

From the house of Dizzy Disney Doodlers

Joan Ross

2025-03-03T15:51:00.000-08:00

Thinking eternally and universally in Hyde Park

Land means life to the community old and young

The folk project sings songs on ancient instruments

Guard and protect the knowledge passed on

For generations to come will be grateful , surely

The elders who have been given permission to share it

Heed the call since fire needs mindful attention

Walk on ground that is soft under foot

Wishing I could lock Echo Beach by temple gate

Dahlia Dahlia won't you lean in so strong ?

On my trapeze evenly spread some sweet relief

On my weary frame ...Rock to and fro in your hands

Your dark eyed beauty will heal me for sure

Trimmed nice nails and hair all undone

Grace generally

2025-02-20T19:39:00.000-08:00

With good manners they speak to all of us

Reconnection is their reason by and large

The religious ceremony of the red bull has

Respectfully worn down good sense and will

They all came from their places carefully

The protocols of language, payments made

Kindness is behaving consistently kindly

Continuing the use of language across clans

Increase confidence among young students

Starting to learn by heart the words given them

Paying for media training for remote elders

Kindness and patience up and down lines

Makes for international understanding

Pow Wow drummers sound a call to sit

Endorphins Dorm

2025-02-19T19:34:00.000-08:00

Darkness descends over somber bookends

Candle light flickers gentle in patches

Breathing turns to snoring ignoring mice

Scuttling over floor looking for morsels

Two watchful elders parade up and down

Grandma emanates radiant kindness

Papa a stern silent wakeful vigil

The trees are hosting birds in their nests

Mud settles in puddles calmly overnight

Traffic noise grows dim sometime it is mute

Swoon the tired children as they dream sweet

Replays of sandpit dramas in the dawn

Colored paper jigsaws puzzles perplex

Gerard scales the tower wall with his cape

untested take care

2025-02-17T15:51:00.000-08:00

The bundle weed has just now come to light

Don't touch that without smart support

The American scoundril in sepier

Sun not scorching shines thoughr leaves

A pear of green pears painted on canvas

Just make art campaign on side of bus

Black beaties seated on wrought iron chairs

Politicians head office closed for good

RSL vet picking winners on corner block

Crowds of calm commuters wait in shade

Cha Cha revival poster on side wall

Great Australian poets fade away

Bus Stop traffic island in hot sun

Fire trucks in child care car park

Stone mosaic footpath flank chique plaza

Cold drinks black coffee in high viz waistcoats

Yarra tram inspectors watch tracks clatter...

Is traffic getting thicker now schools back ?

Goakakan Mob

2025-02-12T19:45:00.000-08:00

Land means life skink is making a comeback

Thinking eternally and universally coolest

The greatest estate on earth was a proper park

Grass and trees every which way , soft underfoot

To be is it no question just awakening

Beautiful meadows with memorial groves

Cemetery trees peaceful game rich parks

People born to continuing protection

Stewards taking pride in the signs inscribed

Where ancient knowledge was encoded in bark

Permission given the respectful ones to share

Dances and gathering under constellations

Daphne Nash wears white clay and ash

Since needs attention and understanding

the happiness of hopes

2025-02-11T20:45:00.000-08:00

I'm finding the courage to cook again

Somehow somewhere looking in the pantry

Shuffling the bottom shelves in the fridge

Walk in the heatwave to the air conditioned shop

Pumpkin soup in the big sachet with rye

Some fresh basil to finely chop with cheese

Maybe be a little horse radish then simmer

Happiness in expectation king of style generation

Central Park piracy lays in wait in the shade

Where like Kate Kelly with her purse pistol

Her wound from Mr Plod as she races back

Across the marshland trapped by latched beam

She cleared it on her best horse but her leg

Copped the sniper shot , her sister stitched her up

Feather on the grass

2025-02-09T17:43:00.000-08:00

Where did you go so nimbly through the window

Did the storm sweep you up in its tempest to Flores ?

I will not begrudge the worms these earthly remains

Soon new dentures may may be within my means

Nothing was missing from cellar except one birch box

When leafing back through time I found a song for peace

Inscribed carefully on the peace gong of Ambon

No Samurai sword remains not rusty nor lost at sea

Our grandparents awaited death with good cheer

There was a garden bed beyond the lawn well tended

Potatoes were baked in their jackets on an open fire

Happily I close that "crow" of dog eat dog creationism

They had not finished back then and the're still at it

Slowly the snail has created a perfect swirl for cover

Home Office Secrets

2025-02-04T18:41:00.000-08:00

When asked what I was thinking when I wrote

I tried to remember but soon forgot

So I answered "Why , Sir nothing at all "

Like Wessex in the tower of London

Words pour forth from my pen to the paper

Let's draw conclusions from the guillotine

" Strewth Dave , now look what we have here to do !"

In Shakespeare it's God destroying Goddess

The Goddess of complete being sum game

By grim rotating logic we come to

THE END , the finale , le rappel

Basic mathematics arrives at nuclear

Annihilation ; Neoplatonist !!

the Hindu Kush

2025-02-02T22:31:00.000-08:00

Over time the Kushans penetrated southwards ,

They focused their public devotions on the many deities

The multitude of religions and philosophies in India

The rise of Indian Buddhism in central Asia

Began at the exact time of the Kushan invasions

From the north where Monks would eventually

Migrate up over the Hindu kush building shrines

Along the way and stupas and monasteries

Converting local folk to the Dharmah

Which moved gradually into China

According to the texts first taught by

Two merchants Trapusa and Bhalika

It is said they were the first to offer Buddha food

After his enlightenment under the Boddhitree

On the Mountain side

2025-02-02T03:13:00.000-08:00

Her majesty was opulent with Greco inspiration

She had Persian coin for the ferry man

She had given up her home to be a nun

No sensual non Ill will facing loving kindness

Departing cruelty approaching compassion

Her earrings were winged Eros her gold ring was Apollo

She was not a gossip nor a killer she traded no weapons

She prevented the rising of unwholesome states

Her neck clasp showed Ariadne triumph over Dionysus

Beside her lay perfumes from her crown dangled gold discs

Bare attention never absent minded conscious of body of feelings

Aphrodite flew naked from her breasts in a gold dust cloud

The five gates to the four truths awaken the seven facts

In her mouth silver her boot buckles were dragons biting panthers

Handy were daggers in ornate dragon master gold sheaths

Katrina Ruck

2025-02-01T09:26:00.000-08:00

Earthly life is peer reviewed by proper scholars

Spin cycle between mystical source and mystical goal

No first cause nor final end the point was way beyond belief

No movement towards an ultimate end of history

The wash of civilisations ends inconclusively

Left right long gong time out of mind beyond

Wrong and right black and white red golden sky

Freedom maybe shackled to ancient grudge

Sand slips downwards through the elders fingers

The past is a no go shadow land of lunacy

Stay here in reality check the research again

Ad infinite um the great Australian Silence

Steady Eddie Stand on shoreline the ships been stripped

Baggage is gross not net scales of balanced false flag view

2025-01-30T19:16:00.000-08:00

Suppose in a parallel universe

Vaping Vamps can sit clear of the footpath

In electric wheel chairs that sometimes

Fold up and swallow the smoker whole

Like a dried up autumn leaf collecting

In wind blown piles that trap twigs ; Dystopic ?

Where do the drains flow before before the ocean ?

Are there efficient grates , traps and filters ?

If so are they still cleaned regularly ?

The children's hospital is painted bright ,

But filled with sad stories and empty beds .

Where slings and trolleys meet contingent needs

But the best and brightest graduates attend

Heartland Records new years market sale

Query 7

2025-01-28T18:58:00.000-08:00

Victorians receive comfortable single unit energy-efficient homes

Creative scientists have much in common with artists and poets

Now after contemplating Wells and Rutherford I have a sudden

Over whelming vertigo where fiction transforms into figures

The lights change from green to red , the world is set free

In a feasible time machine with cast iron cogs and levers

The Empire just got the jitters and refuses gender benders

These are time foreseen by the prophet Peterson

Human kindness deprives cops of their privelage

Sleepless nights with restless leg syndrome

When women stand in disproportionately long

Ques out side the toilet do they wonder why ?

The executive order to cut service funding

Will hurt millions of folk and their protectors

Gardner one Stop shop

2025-01-27T19:33:00.000-08:00

Skating Rhinos on hoardings warn boarding

General public punting passengers

Beware trams are heavy things

With brakes and sudden stop mechanisms

Actually an override reverse mode

Then of course the bell to scald

Drivers careless of pedestrians

There are box seats in the shade of saplings

Coffee clutches bring their own soft cushions

Good Coffee in a cool cup holds beans

...

Steam punk installation

With its' glass eyed brass inverted radar dish

Way too intimidating for doggies

To pee on , they choose the wattle instead

Garden Suit

2025-01-27T19:20:00.000-08:00

Sunset over memorial Melbourne

By the bright pink oleander flower

Fading memories of sad certainties

Settling on sandy shorelines beyond buildings

Where mobility aids are on display

In pharmacy windows along high street

The cool breezes beguiles inspector trials

Free Rides under blue ensign pipers pay

For the privilege of playing to us

Can we hear how high that top note screeches ?

Whilst the constant back ground rumble groans on

Slow and steady sets the sun on one son

Well cared for beds of tidy native plants

Grevillea and kangaroo paw midst the black berries

John O Sonnet

dylan

John Armstrong <jambawan@gmail.com>

how do we know ?

UNWHO ?

Trombone Patriots

Who researches what ?

Emergency is the escape clause , beware

la ville natale et la langue maternelle

Francophonia in the Anglosphere

Jesu 's Guide for the unperplexed .

Minnie Morris Men

Joan Ross

Grace generally

Endorphins Dorm

untested take care

Goakakan Mob

the happiness of hopes

Feather on the grass

Home Office Secrets

the Hindu Kush

On the Mountain side

Katrina Ruck

next

Query 7

Gardner one Stop shop

Garden Suit

John Armstrong jambawan@gmail.com