Misc. Poems

Conformity and unthinking trap us. There is a way to escape

Sponsored bike rides to distant countries - or just the excuse for a big adventure?

Uses same pattern as 'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep' - short poem about conformity

The people met in the journey through life

Why do people grieve at funerals? Often it's not for the departed but is a release of deeper emotions

I'm afraid I'm not a great fan of dogs, and look askance at their owners

Anti-pit bull poem

Wanting to revisit childhood

Ignorance is bliss

Gun culture, USA

Without height we'd all be two dimensional.

It's just a personal view ...

Arranged marriages in traditionally-minded families

A teacher saving a child's life

Being first at something, anything, is more important than actually having a worthwhile goal - apparently

That heart-sinking sentence

Imagination can take us for a wild ride

Dreadful, stifling college course

Manual work

God as a market-trader on Judgement Day

What would it be like to be the pet of a cat?

A drug-crazed young man

Going back a bit - programming a video recorder was a complete pain in the neck

Endless news that rots the brain

Courage in the face of death

A fantasy poem about loneliness and sadness - a poor creature stuck on a barren rock in the middle of the sea

The beginning of the end of the world

Easy to see ourselves as prisoners

Rain pelting down

A mocking look at the dreaded circular sent at Christmas etc.

A description of where I used to live

Banks - led by incompetent fools, greedy and amoral

The joy and pain of reading

This guy claimed to be a T'ai Chi teacher over 30 years ago.

Women and men think differently

AI and search engines

Gutless, brave once they're retired, these Generals sound off about the rights and wrongs of the latest war

Spacemen arrive from outer space to try and change planet earth. But what goes wrong?

Wanting to keep the world at a distance and to retreat into a shell

Science and the human spirit and God

The two sides of a woman's character

Pointless training scheme