Ukraine

A suffering nation.

The anticipation. 

An impending destruction and threat.

The horror of an occupation.

A despicable violation.

Beleaguered,

bedevilled,

beset.

A vile oppression.

An illegal possession,

freedom rapped by the gun. 

Though international condemnation,

no dictators obliteration,

a countries,

heart,

ever won.

Shroddingers Cake

A cake,

baked in the shape of the Greek letter 'pi'

It is at the same time a cake,

yet its is pi(e)!

(Haiku)

Did you know? Duvets

can and will protect you from

anything! It's true!

Who Cuts The Hairdressers Hair

The hairdresser won't give herself a hair cut.

The train driver wont drive himself to town.

The dentist doesn't sort out their own teeth; nor

...the breakdown man attend his own breakdown.

The waiter doesn't serve themselves at tables.

The cashier handles cash that isn't theirs.

The teacher never taught themself their subject; and

...the bus driver doesn't charge himself the fares.

Nurses do not attend themselves in hospitals.

Retailers won't sell to the wholesale.

Paramedics never attended their own injury; and

...policemen never put themselves in jail.

So is it so that once an intrepid car sales-person

set sails to sail a yacht across the seas?

And that a refrigeration engineer

heard a whisper in his ear

and the chill he felt just brought him to his knees?

And that a delivery driver failed to deliver,

so the delivery; as such; was never made.

So they took him to midwife for some practice,

the driver said he'd have to make the grade.

The midwife was very highly experienced

had delivered many babies; this is true.

But I've never seen a baby being delivered,

from a white van,

'round the town

...how about you?

(Haiku)

Staring at someone's

job title but you still can't 

work out what they do!

A Beauty in the Storm

Storm cancels school runs

blows down sheds and fences,

topples trees.

Trampolines make a run for it!

The last remaining leaves are torn from trees.

Round and round and round they dance!

...Beautiful dances.

Trees sway,

some succumb to the wind.

Branches fall to the ground,

blocking roads,

smashing greenhouses,

littering pavements and once perfect lawns.

Making patterns on the ground.

...Beautiful patterns. 

Boats tucked up in harbours tug vigorously at moorings.

Huge waves crash over breakwaters.

In the spray,

through the weak watery light,

the sunlight creates rainbows.

...Beautiful rainbows.

A beauty in the storm.