John Tuach

GROWING DOPEY

Tax revenues for growing dope! But growing food? Scant funding hope. It's policy from Pols myope, When shops run out, how do we cope? In NL where the weather tries And ferry service oft awry And washouts...

ELECTION – JUST ANOTHER PUMP AND DUMP?

CONTACTS COUNT        (A shoo-in) As President and CFO In penny-stock promotion: Of pump and dump, and shady guys - Mr. Dicks can’t recall a portion. If, he's Government elect, With experience and...

BARD’S QUESTION FOR THE AGING MASSES

WHEN FEEBLE COMES A question for the aging masses: When feeble comes, Who’ll wipe our arses? In this time of smartphone fret And fixation on the internet, If wiping can’t be done by app. Or swiping screen to find...

EVERY TOWN SHOULD VOTE A BARD (suggests the Bard of Pynn’s Brook)

POET LAUREATES (Poet Laureate appointee in St. John’s) Every town should vote a bard To rhyme events in its backyard, To laud in lines the district scene And entertain the tourist keen: Poet Laureates sot in every...

HAPPY NEW YEAR IN VERSE, OF COURSE

HAPPY NEW YEAR An open stove - Wood-junks burn Red-orange-yellow In flickering flames - A rosy glow. Scent of smoke, And ghostly faces In coals and soot. Hugging heat, Fond memories Of fires past And tinkers’ tartan. Warm wishes: A happy New Year. John Tuach December 31, 2018

THE BARD ON MUSKRAT, MARIJUANA AND CORRUPTION

SUITS? Do “Suits in Boots”* with greedy hand Plunder freely projects grand, And Shills attest the sleight-of-hand As arrogance and hubris brand.   Muskrat? Marijuana land? Et al, all demand The question: who commands? Who’s biggest suit...

BARD ASKS IF MUSKRAT WAS STUPIDITY OR MORE

DAM ENQUIRY As dam inquiry grinds along, A dismal tale unfolds. It follows on the lines That the Gnarley Blog foretold. With bullying and with bluster A ‘bill of goods’...

HEAT WARNING! (From the Bard)

HEAT WARNING! (Alert issued by Environment Canada for Humber Valley, July 17, 2018) The sun now shines in Newfoundland, Two-months of summer is at hand Where many move at...