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  ‘I picked up the phone and mended a fence’ My cousin said to me I found it an eloquent sentence The restoring of harmony A while since he’d talked to his brother Some argument had come in between But now he picked up the phone And brothers are brothers again   Many fences areContinue reading “Broken Fences”

Good will overcome evil Truth will overcome lies Justice will overcome wrongdoing All evil we despise And light shall overcome darkness And kindness overcome hurt And patience overcome temper And rubbish give way to worth   And living shall overcome dying Life shall overcome death There will be an end to crying Though all shallContinue reading “Shoulder My Yoke”

Human rights and liberties The West is full of them While Indonesia Is cracking down on sex The Muslim world is reverent Unlike the decadent West We in the West shout ‘freedom’ And think that we are best   But freedom is destroying us At least our version of it We think we are freeContinue reading “Public Confession”

Untried and un-convicted And unattended to A young man in a prison cell Could be me or you Comes down with pneumonia Left until the morn Finally prison door unlocks But the young man is gone   He died neglected in his cell His cries for help ignored And minimised as we often do You’veContinue reading “The Cry of the Poor”

Pele is on palliative care The end is coming soon The end of life approaches But this is not a doom An announcer says ‘prepare for the worst’ As if death is a surprise But death is not a final curse For from the grave we rise   At the bus stop yesterday We talkedContinue reading “Our Dying Day”

The river and the fire The life lines of life The water in the river The turf fire burning bright The mainstay of existence Our sustenance and warmth Water from the river The fire in the hearth   The river is still running But the fire has long since died My mother’s home in ErrisContinue reading “Where Do You Come From?”

This is not a war said Putin But a special military operation I laughed at first and thought it was a lie A deceit a euphemism But today I understand It is what he meant What he intended to do   Feeling threatened by NATO And its expansion He sent in tanks to bolster hisContinue reading “Work for Peace”

My eyes are getting weaker It’s old age Tired now from reading page on page Tired too from seeing on the screen What’s going on The now and the has been   Greedy we are For the latest sight to see A friend of mine has lost his sight Dear me But knowing him He’llContinue reading “I See”

Dark and dank December day Mist and fog the while And I inside all snug and warm Live in single file   Just myself to bother me Yes I live alone I am told there are millions of us Waiting by a phone   Talking is done on television And on the Internet Or inContinue reading “All in All”

There has been a kerfuffle in Buckingham Palace where an elderly white lady of noble standing was talking to an ethnic African lady and started asking her questions about her ethnic origins. Issues of colour are very much issues in modern Britain. In today’s Guardian the lead story is of the Metropolitan Police apologising to two blackContinue reading “Hidden Depths”

She should not have gone to gaol In my opinion She was not a criminal Just a young lass in drink Behind the wheel Hits a schoolboy Hit and run Run away to hide In shame and fear At what she’d done   She wanted to make payment to her victim And to do communityContinue reading “Hit and Run”

I like a misty morning Not so sure about fog Fog is denser droplets Fog bound is the log But mist invites your looking Look here there’s more to see I am the first part of something Yes of mystery   And looking into the face of Christ Invites us journey on Life is notContinue reading “Foggy Morning”

The old garden shed is rotting now Weather has withered it Rain gets in the ceiling Maybe birds were pecking it I’ll save the golf clubs Bring them in Store them in the house Lawn mower too I’ll rescue I can still push that about   I never was a gardener Margaret had that skillContinue reading “The Old Shed”

My father used to sing a song that would make me sad as a child. I loved to sit on his knee and ask him to sing to me, and this particular song was about ‘leaving the world behind’. It is a beautiful song with beautiful sentiments, including, ‘I’ll leave the moon above to thoseContinue reading “The Moon Above”

Christmas is always special It is a feast of love And even if you don’t believe In Christ or God above Still the trains are running Still we’re going home To gather round the family hearth To feel the warmth and some   Important to be together Important to belong To feel the Christmas cheerContinue reading “Thoughts at Advent”