Category Archives: Satire

Good News

Posted on December 10, 2019 by colonialist

If you’re wanting to be happy, read the news, No matter just what part of it you choose, And whether from the bottom or the top — It is so very pleasant when you stop! © December 2019 Colonialist

Posted in Humorous rhyme, Satire, verse | Tagged Colonialist, Merry Media, Really Awful Rhyme | 1 Comment

An Assumption of Existing Awareness

Posted on August 18, 2019 by colonialist

How can it be that all announcers will go Adding onto every few words ‘You know’, When in fact you didn’t have a clue, Being something that you never knew, And, if you did … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Humorous rhyme, Really Awful Rhyme, Satire | Tagged Colonialist, Ehh, Speech Padding, You Know | 4 Comments

Day 28 GloPoWriMo 2019 . . . the concept of meta-poems – which are poems about poems! And now for our daily prompt. As you may have guessed, today I’d like to challenge you to try your hand at a … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Colonialist, GloPoWriMo, Satire, verse | Tagged Colonialist, GloPoRhyMo 2019 Day 28, Meta-poems, Really Awful Rhyme | 8 Comments

Screened

Posted on April 20, 2019 by colonialist

GloPoWriMo 2019 Day 20 Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that “talks.” Try to write a poem grounded in language as it is spoken – not necessarily the grand, dramatic speech of a monologue or play, … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Challenge, GloPoWriMo, Humorous rhyme, Poems, Satire | Tagged Colonialist, GloPoWriMo 2019 Day 20, Vernacular | 22 Comments

Traffic Light Solicitors of Handouts BEE Imbalances

Posted on August 15, 2018 by colonialist

Black Economic Empowerment Or B E E for short, Is meant to say how many sent, From each race, in jobs to sort. But means all those who blacker show Are to be put in jobs, For whites, though, … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Cartoon inventions, Colonialist, verse, writing, music composition, fantasy, Africa, journal., Current Affairs, political satire, Really Awful Rhyme, Satire, Wordplay | Tagged BEE and Traffic Light Solicitors, BEE Imbalance, Beggars at Robots, Colonialist, Handout Solicitors BEE imbalance, Rufus cartoon | 8 Comments

An Inglorious Forth

Posted on July 4, 2018 by colonialist

Today’s a day of mourning For the so Dis-USA; On this day came the dawning Of when all hell came to play, They left the British Umpire That made them stick to rules, Now have a flaming Trump-pyre, Which … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Affairs, Humorous rhyme, political satire, Really Awful Rhyme, Rhyme, Satire | Tagged Colonialist, Independence Day, Leaving British Umpire, Really Awful Rhyme | 18 Comments

The Really Awful Evils of Sportists and Sportialism

Posted on June 1, 2018 by colonialist

How dreadful! There are people, With words that try to hurt Others, simply based upon The colour of their shirt! No different are the sportists From rampant racists known, For they hate other people Based on their teams alone! Not … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Really Awful Rhyme, Satire, Swimming Squad Training | Tagged hatred of sports emblems, Race insults and Sports insults, Sportists and Racists, sports rivalry, sports violence, unsporting sportsmen | 16 Comments

Counting Costas

Posted on September 27, 2017 by colonialist

Spain has the Costa Brava, the Costa Del Sol, the Costa Blanca, the Costa de la Luz and several more Costa-type places. Costa Rica in South America has much to recommend it if you don’t mind an awful lot of … Continue reading →

Posted in Beach, Humour, Satire, Writing | Tagged Colonialist, Costa Narmandaleg, KZN North Coast, N Coast invasion, Owlingly Awful Cartoon | 10 Comments

Fighting Racism is Not Nearly Enough!

Posted on September 21, 2017 by colonialist

Those who get knitted knickers from racism are only on the threshold of all the dreadful discriminations that people indulge in all the time. There are plenty of other evil ‘isms’ to be eradicated, all based on the same terrible … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Humour, Really Awful Rhyme, Religious absurdity, ritual slaughter, Satire | Tagged Colonialist, Feminiism and Chauvinism, Racism, Religionism, Sportism, Zuma and Intellectualism | 26 Comments

Watson a Name?

Posted on June 14, 2017 by colonialist

It’s elementary, my dear: What’s pictured on your sporting gear With no colonialist show Should there, on any portion, go; The Springboks came from bad old days, But now a bloke who cricket plays Must as a Protea be known … Continue reading →