Category Archives: General
Reading School 900 years
12 July 2025 What a surge of goodwill, as i take up my quill,To describe a recent display_Of great endeavour, (in perfect weather)For Reading School’s Special day. Through nine hundred years, the success of our peers,(Their plaques, in Big School explain)Improving the life, of those suffering strife,Memories for us to retain. Much has changed, buildings …
In appreciation of Writers
Seems to me the World is short of calm consideration, No time to think things through, and sound conclusions, find Let us encourage those, who have the ‘rush’ temptation, To pause, and read, and then discuss, the ideas in their mind. The advantage for our Authors, is the time that forethought takes, Their books of …
Thrombocytopenia
Thrombo-cyto-penia, Is a word for the Medically Wise For those without basic Latin Its meaning remains a surprise! ‘Who cares?’, they say, ‘Whatever? Until its symptoms arise And bruises and bleeding, spontaneously, Cause a very unpleasant surprise So do not ignore these long Latin words, If they appear before ignorant eyes The number of platelets, …
Where are you?
We are in debt, to the internet,Which has opened horizons worldwideBut those less wise, themselves compromiseBy choosing this tiger to ride. Little is found, without the surroundOf advertising, (whom do they seek?)And such is the litter of uncalled for Twitter,The system’s beginning to creak. I am, to be sure, a hack and no more,With a …
Looking back.
History is a record of all past events So continually adjusting, as ‘now’ becomes ‘before’ So can we conceive, what future minds will say Of our own experience, in future ‘Days of Yore’? Elizabeth the Faithful, as she may well be known Left her realm to Charles, her Son, amid her subjects tears, Aged Ninety-Six, …
What did I see?
When we say “I saw it!”,Perhaps we ought to say,We glanced at an imageBefore we looked away.When you draw you really look,The right shape to defineAnd so with Nature, really lookThe great beauty there to find.So in your Explorations,Look underneath the stone,In between the grassesFor they are not aloneHundreds of little creaturesEach with a life …
With deep regret.
Once again we mourn, the loss of a great soulWhose unselfish life was ended, by a selfish devoteeUnknown, his motivation, or his intended goal,But by his mindless violence, he killed a great MP. These belated words, just describe the great frustration.Of those who write, too late, their superficial linesKnowing, those who really need, their thoughtful …
What is Woke?
I have to admit, as a very old blokeI do not understand what is meant by ‘woke’,Seems to me, it confuses, what is just common sense,With misguided thoughts and the strangest pretence,That history can be, by vandals erasedHumanitarians, too, cease to be praisedIf not supported by the self-centred FewWho claim a right, to tell us …
Each of us matters.
We are not responsible, for decisions that were made_In olden times, before most of us were born.Such mistakes are more clearly seen, by the conscience of todayBut then, a Nation’s actions, obeyed a different norm. I will not make excuses for injustice done,By those who, for selfish reasons, ignored humanityBut let us not, with hindsight, …
George's Rhymes for the Times 