Great Ambition, you Imposter! I do not like your style! Some children think you’re critical, for them to make their pile, Do Teenagers, without you, become just feckless Youth? Without you, is there no success? – I doubt that is the truth. Maybe you are a distant light, but you don’t show the way, You …
Category Archives: Behavioural
Epilogue
I was murdered, that is why I cannot speak. But why should I Stay silent, while the perpetrators Of a sin, my Terminators, Are deemed themselves to have been wronged By our Justice. I would have longed To receive such intercession. Instead of dying. Their transgression ‘Gainst me, suggests, perhaps their Parents And now the …
Is there hope?
During the ‘Troubles’, there were examples of irrational action, despite the tensions. One of these was the villification of children going to Holy Cross School, Belfast. Oh! My Darling! Tell me so, how did you spend your day? “I was at the barricade, and we had our say!” But what, My Darling, was the point, …
A Sense of Space.
Some say that Otford village is a heavenly little place, Its pond and quaint old buildings, and a model of ‘near space’, For in fact, they’ve modelled our solar system there, The planets set on posts, about the Sun, a stainless sphere. All to scale, you’ll find the Earth, like a lentil in its size …
‘Coming home’
I think you say, in English, ‘I will be coming home’, When you write a letter, or use the telephone, But surely that must also mean, that you were there before, With possessions and your Family, and a key for your front door. So, I cannot use these words; I am a Refugee. For complicated …
Lemmings are dangerous
Lemmings, apparently, will suffer mass destruction, Mindlessly they copy, a careless guide’s instruction, Now we seem to follow the Lemmings poor tuition As we ignore the craziness of our own position. We let our children see the things, that used to make us blush No time to teach a grounding, everything’s a rush Only I-pad …
Aren’t we ‘smashing’.
Wonders of the Universe, galactic combination Require a depth of knowledge, beyond my comprehension Black holes, time warps, expansion, ever faster so it seems All started from a single Bang, is this the stuff of dreams? Steven Hawking wrote the words, I strain to understand And then outside my window, I see the beauty of …
If Only…
When we say ‘if only’…, it leads on to a wish, Be it, for a sunny summer, or to catch a bigger fish! For honest politicians, for zero income tax, A world without Al Queda, or more time to relax! Usually, it is someone else, we think should make the change, But if we turn …
Crossing the Channel
All around us, now exists, a state of great confusion, No-one seems to know, which is the way to go, From our Ministers, division, our leaders rudder-less The charts have no indication, of the ground below. In olden days the Captain, would, “Take a sounding!’”, shout, The uncomplicated lead-line, into the depth was thrown, It …
Fellow Travellers
We are six thousand million on this earth today We recognise a handful, but that is not to say That those we do not know, and those we haven’t met Are any less important on this earthly realm, and yet, Some present Religion as the faultless guide To those that we should fear, or gladly …
George's Rhymes for the Times 