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Tomorrow Never Comes I travel every day through a realm of inanityWhere mania walks by, displaying insanityThere people throw stones with a joy that arousesComplete unawareness of their glass housesThey buy vast numbers of things they don’t needObedient to the sirens who cultivate greedThey never read books or appraise the newsOnly talk-back radio decides theirContinue reading “Still A Place For Thoughts”

Safety In Numbers One dark dayA virus came to shatter our nation’s healthLockdowns occurred and advisers spokePassing judgements linked to our wealthWhen seventy percent are vaccinatedBusiness will resumeSo three out of ten of us may dieBut it’s worth the risk we assumeWe must learn to face the pain of existenceThere is always a risk inContinue reading “Poetry Lingers”

Science Beware! Science exists It is operating now A danger to our very existence as functioning corporations Threatening our tomorrows With destructive evidence That will turn our mission statements Into catastrophic foretelling of insolvency To arms fearless corporate allies! We must turn this tide of dangerous awareness Into profitable unreality Think! Reach out! Invent mythologyContinue reading “Yet More Poems”

Love Love is a powerful friend amidst chaos A cooee when you are lost in the mountains A visit from a doctor when you are ill Water in a desert of loneliness A warm fire when you come in from the cold A kind hand when defeat bars your way Laughter when gloom thinks itContinue reading “And More Poems”

Harsh Words With A Shock Jock Babble on you travesty of human existence It’s dirty money you make Drawing attention to the dark side of things Posing as the voice of upstairs management You weave ugly words into an unearthly tapestry Of deception, violence and hate Sullying the lives of innocent people Undeserving of whatContinue reading “More Poems”

Miracles There is wonder in the manner egg yolk tends to thicken And with time’s pure necromancy it becomes a chicken Another marvel wondrous and old you can see everywhere How a bird’s fragile frame and feathers are able to conquer the air Yet more majesty circles the globe when the wind flies on itsContinue reading “Still More Poetry”

Truth Truth is what you seldom hear When on members you are relying Politics is a shady business Highly dependent on lying It is even worse with news reports When your country’s at war The enemy is always in the wrong Doing things that you deplore Don’t ever trust the memoirs Written by a politicalContinue reading “Still More Passing Thoughts”

Lies Lies are the potent tools of modern life Their degree of use  Is an intricately woven pattern of deception At the least dangerous level Is the Barefaced Lie This is simple to recognise And brings the user most often contempt A folly easily detectable A more treacherous level is the Rogue Distortion Characterised byContinue reading “More Passing Thoughts”

Have A Nice Day How could you do this? A partnership is a sharing of decision making What has happened to trust? Weighing up of consequences together? Not to have a voice in planning defines your insignificance Creates a fallacy of importance That leaves the outsider mangled and in disarray Words can be the differenceContinue reading “Poetry Lives On”

Memory Once long ago A man threw mud in my face I don’t remember who it was And my life went on apace I bought a car one extravagant day It was extremely expensive I don’t know where on earth it is now Even though my search is extensive In the past I travelled ToContinue reading “Rhymes And Similar Poetic Devices”