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Contrarian they called him Contrarian he was The world was against him from the start Father cold indifferent Left him mother love And she sent him away at eight years old And then she left again Had found another man And then she left again Found in a Greek hotel dead and cold   ThreeContinue reading “Hitch”

Funny the things you remember They just make an impression Stay forever Do not go away I remember a girl in Liverpool I thought her beautiful The ‘Thunderbolt’ the Italians say And I was stunned that day She was a novice nun And I a novice priest It didn’t happen We never spoke An instantContinue reading “Beauty”

  A red card given early Head butt off you go Made me think of Anglo-Irish relations A problem not very long ago A century of troubles Indeed from famine times Trevelyan Lord John Russell Neglect and other crimes Parnell and Redmond Lloyd George and the War That fateful Easter Rising And the man shotContinue reading “A Sore Reminder”

Heimat homeland heaven That is what we are told Our homeland is in heaven But our ears have grown cold We think this world is all we have And it’s a vale of tears At least that hasn’t gone away There is no paradise here   Yet on the mountain something shone A brightness inContinue reading “Faithful in the Lord”

People who have never been loved Grow old But they never grow up For it is love that makes us flourish As sun causes flowers to open Love awakens the heart   And we are never done with growing up So do not think that you have reached Perfection You have not But every dayContinue reading “All Grown Up”

Orphans on a bus And on their own Who do I belong to? Where’s my home? Escaping from Ukraine Have to start again Heading now for Scotland Where is that?   I have felt an orphan in my time Taken from my family A child a child a crime But that does not compare WithContinue reading “Faces on a Bus”

I feel so angry I would just want to go and shoot him Who? Putin! But if I got there I wouldn’t hit him I would just want him to see sense Striking him or killing him Wouldn’t do the job What job? Helping him to see The folly of his ways The senseless slaughterContinue reading “How Deep is your Virtue?”

England is rich in its people Irish Scots Welsh to name a few The folk who came from Pakistan To work our northern mills And open corner shops Sitting all day at the tills The Windrush generation Leaving sunny homes To run the London underground Drive buses out to Barnes Then those Kenyan Asians ExpelledContinue reading “Little England”

Every day There is a word of God for you Today the word is Ask – you shall receive What shall I ask for? What should I desire? A heart for love A heart for love on fire   Ask for what would make your life complete What is it that I lack? That IContinue reading “Yes”

Communism is cruel to its own Think of Stalin’s purges Siberian prison camps Clamp down on all media Not allowed free speech Opponents put in prison Or poisoned in the street   And Russia is fearful of the West Suspicious untrusting cold of heart What kind of life is that to live! Force and fearContinue reading “Sword or Word”

We use words To put the world to rights Especially over a pint and in a pub It’s easy then The ale is comforting And gentle friends have kindly ears Where others don’t and therein Lies the rub   And words now Reporting violence And bombs on hospitals Children under rubble We watch on notContinue reading “Keeping Watch”

My town was mills and mines And post-war ration books The old town of cobbled streets Back to back two up two down Strung along a hillside neat Industrial revolution   And then the new world Wimpeys The Shakerley estate Houses and gardens in the fields Built of late to house new families Shakerley RoadContinue reading “Origins”

He feels threatened That is why he’s done it Former Soviet states changing sides Ukraine was part of empire Russia’s vassal state Till 1991 Recently only late   And playing at democracy And heading to the West And talk of EU membership And Nato’s behest? It’s all going against him He has to call aContinue reading “Day By Day”

Luke 11:29 -32   Faith is not an opinion It is not a point of view Faith is a commitment To the one we see as true   The Queen of the South travelled north To the court of Solomon To hear his words of wisdom And to act on them   The Ninevites ofContinue reading “Follow”

My father’s anniversary coming soon Tuesday 15th of March Day and date exact Opening of the Cheltenham Festival A perfect day for him to die He loved the horses well   He stabled them and groomed them in his day Out in India for officers Sunny times in far off climes North West Frontier too HeContinue reading “Cheltenham, Michael”