Mel From Melbourne - Music & Words

greyscale pedagogy  seated across a path a melancholy toddler in a pram's eyes find me playing peekaboo while her parents are silently busy with their phones the toddler starts cooing & playing with her shoe so i start playing with my shoe as she tentatively lifts up like a pink daisy in the absent sun o happy child  her mother still looking at her phone spits out the three words she shares with her daughter "stop!" & "sit down!" Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.

  this society lacks compassion for the disabled i wouldn't have to take the harrassment if i was in a wheelchair or would i? when ur alone ur treated very differently alone in a big city Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.

  weaponless warrior they starved us of our land they staved us of food they starved us our culture they're starving us of our tongue everyday more laws & rules eating into our minds robbing us our dignity a genocidal silence & the frogs won't know when they're boiling alive like the photo reads: "a weaponless warrior" Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.

  stop! but how to stop a river without flooding the land what with all this rain rain i did not make what is a poet's role again? in a world that cannot read  or listen take ur pick & even the sea it runs into is rising Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.

  5th hour tanka on self banning Skibbereen: there are other fish & we all gotta swim & not seek to drown no man is an island Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.

  conviction in life not art or is it the kid's butterfly painting mirror? what is art? Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.

  War is hell Nothing good about it End. Not a good story. Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.