or ‘How one can bite of more than one can chew!’ “It’s time for a change! The loo needs a refitThe tiles are disgraceful, the basin’s a pit,The boys are careless, (aimless the word)A hygenic room, don’t be absurd!” So out with the basin, a new one arrives,Chromium tapped, perfectly sized,But the rad’s in the …
Author Archives: George Potter
Mutants
I thought Corona virus caused a failure of the lungOr so the experts told us, (though in bats begun)But now it has mutated, as some, unbelievably, pursueA brainless selfish pattern, which the empty shelves, prove true. In olden days the pirates, chased their love of gold,Sailing off to pillage, the richer lands of old,But now …
Covid-19
Corona Virus, How do you do?You, like a genie came,Apparently from Chinese lands,Now Pandemic is your name. Please don’t deny our right to beA little out of sorts,You’re uninvited, aggressive tooAccording to reports. We are quite tough, we humansAnd up to quite a fight,But leave our weaker folk aloneSurvival is their right. Meanwhile, don’t be …
Cheerful sourdough!
In the current lockdown, many are baking again. The references here are of two local bakers with whom I chat…. At the moment, there seems, not much we can do, As the virus constrains our best plans, But cooking and baking, is good for our health, And also gives work for our hands. So it …
Ego
(written after the massacre, by a ‘loner’ at Newtown, Connecticut) A chilling stillness overcomes the worldUnbelieving, did this really happen?A troubled man escapes, anger unfurledBlinded, armed, exploding ‘mongst the children.We cannot guess the state of our brotherThe secret quest to find his own ego,The silent conflict ‘twixt Man and MotherHow can we know what’s never …
Six centuries later.
They say the old star Betelgeuse, Which is, in Orion, found Could be about to self explode As its ‘End of Life’ comes round, But it’s slightly pinkish light For years, by gazers seen Comes from, ‘so very far away’ It’s light could be ‘has been’ It takes the light six hundred years Through Space …
Companions to the dying.
Perhaps the least applauded, you work so peacefully, Providing care and comfort, to those who will not see, A future life before them, here on Earth, but hopefully, Their soul and spirit remembered, here and eternally. But Nurses, Doctors, Friends, whose dilligence displays The essence of humanity in many diff’rent ways Love, sympathy, devotion in …
Church bells.
“Oh! Ho!” My ringing friends exclaim, Their sounding bells above They pull the ropes and spin the wheels, And practice what they love. And when the Bride comes to be wed, The bells ring out the news They spread the word of love and joy, Beyond the church and pews. Some bells have been thus …
Indian Sonnet 2019
Mandeep, our guide, asked that we chose, just three Favoured points from our recent escapade But how can we start to choose, when we see The range of diff’rent journeys we have made? How can the Taj Mahal, be so compared With fine silk threads in carpets wove by hand? The beauty of the dance …
Common Sense.
Each day I scan the pages of a reputable(?) rag To make myself aware of principal events Because I am still thinking, I take up my position I am not one for sitting on the fence. So often, I consider the salient why’s and wherefore’s To distinguish facts from mere pretence Most times, it seems …
George's Rhymes for the Times 