The Whisper

09/03/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



Have you heard the whisper?

The talk about the town?

The factory is closing

The whole operation shutting down



There will be job losses everywhere

From the bottom to the top

Workers, managers, overseers

All will get the chop



No one seems to know a date

Or what is exactly going on

It’s all rumours and gossip

And a fear we’ll soon be gone



Without the factory and its workers

What will happen to this place?

No industry and no people

This is the future that we face



Many won’t be able to retrain

Their lives sunk into this work

No love from rich CEOs

Or politicians with a smirk



Right now, it’s just whispers

Passing from ear to ear and back

But when whispers become reality

Too many will fall through the crack

Magazines

03/01/2021 - Poem a Day Compilation



Who wants to be on the cover of a magazine?

All soft filters and photoshop.

I’d rather be the natural me

With lumps, bumps and imperfections.



Don’t try to sell me any beauty mags,

I’ve seen their unrealistic body ideals;

Give me Australian Geographic instead,

Filled with wonder, awe, and inspiration.



You can keep your page threes and centrefolds

With their unrealistic body types

That lead to unrealistic expectations

Which I will certainly not live up to.



I don’t need your trashy gossip mags,

Dishing out troubles for entertainment;

Show me intelligence and insight, please,

It’s worth far more than the cover price.