There'd be an uproar if Aussies were arrested carrying cricket bats

Bleached Bones on a Sunlit Beach

Sitting under a clear dark southern sky
Looking at a cross most sacred to the eye,
Pondering a crescent moon about to die;
Nay, next phase, in hope, a whole new pie.

In between the constant moving mix
Of lunar and stars the ages usually fix,
The fears and worries of a past reflex,
Now need reconcile bow and genuflect.

T'is a tiresome trouble of centuries past.
Arising in enlightened age, much aghast.
The mores of communities in differ repast,
Unfair and closed or egalitarian and vast?

Sitting under a clear dark southern sky
Looking at a cross most sacred to the eye
Pondering how fairness was cast in our die
By generations legacy left that does not lie.

The contrast of places imbibed in fear,
Of all that grand life provides so dear.
Other places far removed from the near.
The refuge offered but beliefs do sneer.

T’is a tiresome trouble of centuries past,
Arising in enlightened age; much aghast.
The blunted vision of prophecy ill asked,
To compromise the vision of a guided past.

Sitting under a clear dark southern sky
Looking at a cross most sacred to the eye
The crescent of false belief will pass us by
Our world of hope and faith will never die.

The scourge of dogma and bitter hate,
We’ve learned to reject, not just of late,
For we’ve travelled the paths mostly, mate,
And rejected them as an unfortunate fate.

We of the clear cross in the southern sky
Wondrous of all alternative we’ve come by.
One condition our egalitarianism is left undrowned
Like sacred Anzac bones in special Muslim ground

Keith

I am still digesting your poem above.

The cricket bat previous post had me in stitches. We played cricket in the backyard most afternoons in the season - sh*t and Mrs Martin got angry many times because of innocent broken windows. Then she would invite us in to watch TV at the end of the day ('cos we didn't have one). What a rort!

Dad used to carry two cricket bats in the car boot on Saturday mornings - just in case my brother had a problem with one.

Keith, I know that you have been on this and other threads on several occasions.

I shake my head when we accept that people are carrying and bashing with baseball bats. Weird eh? Given that baseball has never been a noteable sport in this country (although beginning with some white Aussies), I think that people who are selling heaps of baseball bats have to ask themselves the reason for an increase in sales? As far as I know, not even the "shock jocks" have raised what I am suggesting?

Correct me if I am wrong, the male people of reported "Middle Eastern etc" - the thugs I mean, do not engage in the usual Aussie sports, vis a vis: footie, basketball, swimming, hockey, ARL, NRL, soccer - or is there a US Baseball Team of the Thug Ilk that I do not know about?

I know I sound sinister, but having read threads here for weeks about bashing and baseball bats - I think that my questions are valid - not directed at you - directed at this Forum.

Merry Christmas
Kay

the melbourne age, otherwise known as the Spencer Street Soviet, is on the way to failure from falling circulation, robbing melbourne of its Fairfax voice

The journos there are now all hard left propagandists and their main interest is in competing with eachother to proclaim their moral superiority,purity and virtue, rather than informing and entertaining their readers

Only a small percentage of australians are of the hard left but virtually all journalists and commenters are. I agree that the shock jocks are more in touch with the silent majority who by the way, never engage in demos or other made for the media publicity stunts

Hi, Harry34

No doublt the shock jocks connect well wtih their constituency. Some have even been known to cultivate certain types of thier audience with a carton or similar to keep their program going the way they want it - to claim the audience size that would allow them the ransom they ask of big corporations craving for their favourable coverage on air.

Do you make a distinction between knowing how to exploit the darker side of our populace by people in positions of power and the understanding of what it is that ails our fragmenting society and what needs to be done by our leaders to rectify our social ailments?

Too many in this forum I feel just need to get a kick out of being part of the "winners" in any social debacle.

Reminds me of a black sheep in a well established family taking it out on his social inferiors at he slightest ruse.

Cheers

Chek

Swilks....
good to see the 'left' has caught up after all this time with the basic teaching of Jesus and the life of the earliest Christians :)

took them a while though.

It would have been far easier to just maintain our connection to and relationship with the Lord Himself.

But then, we would never have seen the sickening picture of 2 men getting 'married' in the UK. Elton and buddy.

No wonder the Muslims say we are 'decadent infidels', though they have their own issues which are far worse in my humble view.

Now, we have selectively caught up (the left that is) with Christ, but in neglecting the natural order of things with relationships, we consign ourselves to an uncertain future, where 'if it feels good, do it' seems to rule. I guess that's the price of freedom.

Shock Jocks working for commercial broadcasters are a lot like 'Satan'
he dangles tantalizing tid bits of information, to entice our unthinking actions, the RIPS it away at the last moment just when we were about to bite, and his minions of sponsors congratulate him once again, on gaining invaluable high rating advertising time.

Now that Christ-mass is upon us, lets put aside our issues, and look to Him (Jesus), not to shock jocks, for our inspiration and light.
Perhaps in the new year, we can all 'see' more clearly