Category Archives: Angry Anne Poems

a sub-genre of poems with distinct attitude.

The Rhino’s Parting Slam

Posted on April 5, 2015 by anne norman

We rhinos rapidly and generously march to the doors the jaws of extinction donors of distinction anxious to give our horn to adorn the daggers of the proud and to be ground for cures found to enhance man’s ego, we … Continue reading →

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I pay taxes for what?

Posted on September 11, 2014 by anne norman

I pay taxes for what? …the rapid dismantling of hard-won protections for our environment; a mad rush to frack farm land in the name of coal-seam gas (which we don’t want or need), with the clear objective of destroying our … Continue reading →

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(psycho) Cads

Posted on September 8, 2014 by anne norman

in homage to Judith Wright & Gandhi Their smooth pink tongues flicker at our humanity. Round them, felled forests and polluted waters alter the climates of our ravaged earth and silt with tailings the strata of first birth. Only an armoured … Continue reading →

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Fukushima kid

Posted on August 4, 2012 by anne norman

Fukushima kid, stuck indoors, its hard to understand the cause. The tsunami’s gone, but no picnics at the beach; you wear a mask that muffles speech; your heart feels dark; can’t play in the park; your parents are stressed; but … Continue reading →

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