Mar 19, 2021
The meaning of life ~ Alan What’s the real story? Believers tell us we should just Take our little lives on trust. No point, they say, in asking why – Why we’re born, Or why we die. All we need to understand Is that the universe is planned, That life and...
Mar 12, 2021
So let’s not cut them down ~ Alan The tree See how it stands, That tree, So tall and proud, Feet in earth, Head in cloud, Scarred by lightning, Lashed by rain, Bowed by wind, Upright again. Dying in gold, Reborn in green, Think what it’s heard. Think...
Mar 12, 2021
Don’t believe you are told ~ Alan A Wobbly World It’s really hard to keep your feet When everywhere you go The whole damned world around you Is swaying to and fro. Our country, so the government claims, Is stable and secure. So how come it won’t stop shaking...
Feb 13, 2021
Time out for us. Time carries on without us. ~ Alan Who’s going to wind the clocks? Who’s going to wind the clocksWhen l am gone?Sort out the house at nights?Tuck up the dogs?Turn off the lights?Who’s going to do the thingsl’ve always...
Feb 13, 2021
Everything and nothing is important. ~ Alan Who cares? They slaughtered eighty kids today.l’ve eaten too much Christmas cakeThe last giraffe was shot in May.And now l’ve got a stomach ache. A week ago I lost my dad.We’ll celebrate the New Year soonMy...
Feb 5, 2021
My twin brothers. Personal stuff. ~ Alan With apologies to William S. When that I was and a little tiny boy,With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,My brothers went to fight a war,And never came back again.Now that l’ve come to man’s estate,I tell my brothers...
