ICE:

POWERFUL AMERICAN THUGS AND HARBINGERS OF MAGA BRUTALITY

286TH Poem Published February 9, 2026 continuing

The “Scourge From The South” series of Poems

Born in time with the dawn of man

Thugs have created chaos in history’s grand plan

Curbed by the people who made laws for protection

If the Rule Of Law is broken they become an unholy infection

Such is the case in the modern history of the US 

Just like it was in the ‘30s when Hitler feathered his nest

With Gestapo thugs bolstered authoritarian power in order to wrest

Freedom from millions that took the world’s blood to suppress

ICE, hated the world over as people watch their brutality

Protected by those of the Maga presidency

Running wild, breaking the Rule Of Law as history is repeated

To satisfy the itch for power that has never ever retreated

WHEN RELIGIONS COLLIDE

285TH POEM PUBLISHED February 7, 2026

(written following the plans drawn up for Gaza by the US)

A bloody travesty way back in time

Are we seeing history repeat again the crime

In fields of death over contested lands

For that which is deemed holy passing from hand to hand

It has ever been so for a thousand years 

Man’s gigantic events causing mankind to shed tears

Nothing ever learned in the hard march of man (1)

For the Crusader warriors of antiquity are still there

Their bloody spectres hovering over Mid-East sand

New factions at war as the world watches the fight

War the hallmark of what is deemed to be right

Violence always to be the final bloody answer

But History is crying, watching man’s bloody disasters

How much blood have the desert sands dried

As war and its aftermath leave so many who have died

Colliding religions seem to always breach the peace

As history watches through its tears for the destruction to cease

(1) “hard march of man” is a favourite Churchill quote from his History of The Second World War (which I have used a lot)

(this poem has been set to music; click on music to listen to it)

The New World Order

sub-title

The Player, Pundits, And The Rabble,

284th Poem published February 1, 2026

There are many and differing views by pundits on TV and in news articles on Carney’s speech in Davos. Many are unlettered.

 Many missed the big picture.

Carney’s speech was clear, concise, easy to understand, and unequivocal. 

 Bearing this in mind, the poem

“The New World Order” is offered.

Great events just jumped onto the world stage

In Davos, where leaders, heard stated a new page

As the Prime Minister Of Canada caused some rage

Outlining the scope of a world gone awry

Where the old order of the day was sliced and fried

Television pundits through their opinions and garbled views

Gave not much to their audiences who sit in orderly pews

With pontifications on the meaning of what went down

Colouring the clarity of what really was said

Muffling that hammer when it hit the nail square on the head

We, the people, heard the same speeches

Outlining the rupture of world order in simple words

What more is needed to see the big picture

No need for pundits to outline what went down

For we are not the rabble, and know the score

no matter how much Trump and his Maga minions frown