Miscellaneous Poems
A thought? Good God!
Conformity and unthinking trap us. There is a way to escape 3 Comments
Aid Tourist
Sponsored bike rides to distant countries - or just the excuse for a big adventure?
At the Funeral they Cried
Why do people grieve at funerals? Often it's not for the departed but is a release of deeper emotions
Dog Hater
I'm afraid I'm not a great fan of dogs, and look askance at their owners 6 Comments
Ferdie was a pit bull
Anti-pit bull poem
I’m not racist BUT …
That heart-sinking sentence 1 Comment
Imagination is a thin frail thing
Imagination can take us for a wild ride 1 Comment
On a high rock
A fantasy poem about loneliness and sadness - a poor creature stuck on a barren rock in the middle of the sea 1 Comment
Round Robin
A mocking look at the dreaded circular sent at Christmas etc.
The false teacher
This guy claimed to be a T'ai Chi teacher over 30 years ago.
The Old Warrior
Gutless, brave only once they're retired, these Generals sound off about the rights and wrongs of the latest war
The Spaceship came out of the Sun
Spacemen arrive from outer space to try and change planet earth. But what goes wrong?
The Stress of Living
Wanting to keep the world at a distance and to retreat into a shell
They said, ‘There’s no such thing as God’
Science and the human spirit and God 1 Comment