Author Archives: donmatthewspoetry

I Wanna Buy a Gun at Walmart Mummy

I can’t believe my eyesWalmart is selling gunsOn display for all to seeOh what shopping fun Mummy takes me down the aisleRifles, guns galoreRound the corner, round we goGosh, there’s rifles more Mummy I’d like that oneStanding straight and tallWanna be a Rambo girlWanna have a ball bang…bang… You’ll need some ammunition Without it there’sContinue reading “I Wanna Buy a Gun at Walmart Mummy”

Back in the Day, Do You Remember?

We used to get our breadDelivered to the doorNeddy/van came up the streetNeddy/van no more We had this thing they called a crockIn which the bread to storeNeddy/van and crock all haveDisappeared, no more The same Neddy/van which came up my street in Adelaide when I was a boy. No, it’s not my house….. DonContinue reading “Back in the Day, Do You Remember?”

Everyone is Mortal RIP Peter Green

English guitarist, singer and founder of Fleetwood Mac died in his sleep on 25 July 2020, aged 73 Everyone is mortalEveryone will diePeter Green has passed awayMany said goodbye Reader you are mortalReader you will dieEven I as poetSome day I will die Don MatthewsNovember 2020

Trump’s Greatest Failure

Handling the pandemic US 4% of world’s population 20% of world’s deaths 229,000 Americans dead Many more will die Trump just last week ‘We have turned the corner’ Fauci ‘No we haven’t’ Older voters terrified of dyingWill look to someone putting community healthTop of their list of priorities Trump must go For stability to returnContinue reading “Trump’s Greatest Failure”

Poet Don and Class on Howl at the Moon 26 October (catch-up lesson)

Message from FCS ManagementThe moon was asleep on 26 October so Poet Don had to postpone his lesson until the moon woke up. Yes Tommy the moon goes to sleep and wakes up. Just like you I don’t have a poem for you today children but I do have a song we can all singContinue reading “Poet Don and Class on Howl at the Moon 26 October (catch-up lesson)”