My Way Is In The Sand Flowing
” My way is like the sand flowing between the shingle and the dune” The sand it flows on the seashore Here …
I Hope When Old to Waste My Time
From a GB Shaw quote, who was no fan off chess, unlike me, who is!
Heaven Taught Ploughman
“A heaven taught ploughman” – Henry McKenzie speaking of Robert Burns. He learned much with plough in field Beast snorting, as ever …
Where God Is and Has Been
“In Nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, where He still is at work.” – Robert Brault
Forgive, Forget
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ― Oscar Wilde Those who stand against you, to your face, behind your …
Each Step We Take
We know not what lies ahead, As our journey through life we make We walk to meet it regardless With each faltering …
Writing For the Commonest Ear
no knave brought to book Who has won a drunken cheer— The witty man and his joke Aimed at the commonest ear, …
Four Letters Long: The Biggest Words
“Love was biggest word, the hardest to write” – Seamus Heaney The biggest words, four letters long: not in what they are:But …
Culture from a Cigarette Packet
Words I read of Aftons waters Green braes and other lines of Burns the bard, On a packet of cigarettes What funny …
Don’t Forget the Magic
The world, its wonders and promises false, Drive us forward to distraction, Seeking more than what we have, Provocation causes reaction In …
Rocking the Cradle of Genius
You have disgraced yourselves again, once more you have rocked at the cradle of genius” – W.B. Yeats Rocking the cradle of …
Month of Mondays
It seems as if with all that’s on – And its not only some days – Everything than can has gone wrong …
We Know Nothing
“truth flitters across the screen we know practically nothing” – San Vincenzo “Vinci, Later” Morten Sondergaard What we think is truth we …