Eagles

Eagles

On our way to town

Three eagles were feasting

At a road killed banquet

Two kangaroos have been killed

By speeding idiots no doubt

We stopped the car

Disturbing their feast

Opening, flapping their wings

They rose away in the the clear sky

What majestic beasts.

They were at it again

On our way back

And flew away once more

To take refuge

In the old dead eucalyptus

Stuck in the middle of the paddock

Waiting for us to pass

Before resuming their meal

Nature doesn’t like waste!

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Fighting rams

The fighting rams

What a shock it was

To hear in the predawn 

The cracking noise 

Of two rams fighting 

Time and time again

Without pause

One wonders

What is does to their shaken brains

How their skulls do not fracture

What a waste of energy

That stupid dedication 

To eradicate the other 

From grazing ever again 

Reminds me present human behaviour

In India,  Nyamar, and Palestine 

Really, we are but animals!

Lucette C. Bailliet

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India’s folly

You need to stop this

NOW!

I don’t care ,

I don’t want wish to know

What creed you follow

What cast you belong to

What colour is your skin

What book you swear on

All falsehoods!

The only way out is

Remember your humanity

We’re all humans

Every one of us

Deserves to be alive

To live peacefully!

What you could do yesterday 

You can do it today!

Please stop this carnage,

This senseless destruction,

This folly.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Pandemic

Pandemic

Pandemic or not?

That is the question

The answer is

We shall see

2020 is certainly turning to be

A year of challenges

From personal

To societal 

To universal

It keeps rolling

It keeps rocking

It keeps throwing 

Curve ball after curve ball

A year to remember 

A year to hold on tight

And still foolish mankind 

Is carolling pretending

Nothing is happening 

It’s business as usual

Systems are cracking everywhere

People  are hurt

People are dying

There’s more than a pandemic!

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Dawn

Dawn assignation

Alice revisited

Alice revisited

As the red queen said

“Off with her head”

The surgeon said

“Off with her breasts”

Oh Why? why Alice

Did you follow 

The white rabbit?

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Bread and butter

Bread and butter

A snip here, a snip there,
Some stitching up,
Apply bandage
Pressure the wound.

There’s no love
Just hard cutting skills.

No motherly kiss
To make it better.

Right, I am just
Your bread and butter.

Lucette C. Bailliet
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No more...

No more...

They really are underrated
You know double mastectomy
Let’s see : you get
No more mammograms
No more ultrasounds
Immediate loss of weight
For a minimum knock out time
No effort required on your part
That’s a win-win, no?
No more anxieties
About new lumps detected
Serious economy
No expensive bras anymore
No more wiring structures
Bitting cruelly into your flesh
No more elastic bands tearing it
No more shoulder and neck pain
Seriously improve arm blood circulation
No more antsy and numb hands to wake up to
In the middle of the night
Freedom of movement
To run again like the child
You once were
Don’t hesitate to take up Charleston
For now you have the perfect flapper gorge
Do not forget those gorgeous kimonos
Made of shimmering silk
Think about all those fabulous dresses
You couldn’t have a hope in heaven
To get in yesterday
All those blouses too small in the chest
You kept for years in the bottom of the wardrobe
And the best but not the least
When I hug you
You’ll be nearer my heart!
I’ll stop there ‘cause
It’s a beautiful thought!

Lucette C. Bailliet
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