it was tomorrow - and now
it is! Today is
the future, so let us make
today match yesterday's wish!
Christmas concert
A Decembers church on the edge of Cornwall,
built of Cornish stone
and built by Cornish men.
To a carol concert,
overcoats a must,
a cushion - protection against the hard church pews.
replete with ladies of a certain age.
Grey hair,
pearl necklaces
sparkly black outfits.
Each hold a folder
complete with the running order
and the words of the carols to be sung,
despite being engraved on their hearts.
Many sporting colourful spectacles
on beaded chains
to read the words
to sing the carols
to commence the Christmas period...
On my departure,
this non-believer...
thanks the lord for the cushions!
I'd love to be able to retire
I'd love to be able to retire
without Putin setting fire
to the world and all we know
from his bunker in Moscow
not to hear the heavenly choir
from a world left in a mier
as climate change abounds
our stupidity astounds
and how can there be no work
in the dark those millions lurk
but with millions with no jobs
and politicians with big gobs
nobody's paying tax
'chance for pension's looking lax...
but I'd love to be able to retire
in a place - somewhere to aspire
kids not armed with knives
but with skills to build their lives
so world wait 'til I retire
with my wife; we'll never tire
down in Cornwall having fun
our life's labours having done
and when our days run out
we together at rest no doubt
and with Putin awaiting his grave
and the climate yet to save
and politics still in a mess
and "AI" our God: I guess
and no jobs at all are left
...we won't feel bereft!
Questions which arise whilst on a train
Am I sat still whist the world flies by me?
Why don't the clouds move - everything else seems to?
Maybe the clouds are just tears in a blue canvas?
Why is the track side going by faster than the distant hill tops?
Why is that child happy whilst the people having to stand seem so miserable?
Are we in a race with those cars?
Do the sun's rays want to be turned into electricity?
Is the right side of the train going faster than the left?
Do the arms of those pylons ever get tired?
Do those cows ever get tired of eating grass?
And why am I tired having been sat down for only an hour?
How new are all those 'new' cars?
How do seagulls hang in the sky?
And I wonder who lives in that big house?
...are we there yet?
(Tanka) Sand
A handful of sand
found in a shoe doesn't make
a beach, but it might
resurrect lost memories
of childhood visits to one!
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