Monday, 19 October 2015

The bright side
















Wake up fresh each morning and take that for a blessing
Another day in this world to keep the Devil guessing
Go happy to your work and do avoid the stressing
Then come home safe each evening, relax and let your heart sing

Don't fret for the future, you only borrow trouble
What will come will come and the interest will double
Live for every good day 'till some prick bursts your bubble
Then shrug and take what's coming and plant flowers in the rubble

Time on Earth is short so don't waste the fleeting seconds
hating, fighting, moaning, making or using weapons
Live well
Love lots
Laugh loud
Say yes when fate's hand beckons
And come down on the credit side as the eternal audit reckons





10 minute warning
















There are times in this life I am sure you know
when a man has to do what a man has to do
today it was my turn to go
I would leave it 10 minutes if I were you




Monday, 12 October 2015

daDUM daDUM















To answer why my poems have form
and swing when I recite 'em
The human heart in iambs beats
so that's the way I write 'em


The Infinite Loop















Although I search for meaning in my life
 don't tell me that I'm part of God's great plan
 I've sliced philosophy with Occam's knife
 and feel that chance made atoms into man

 But if you say that God made atoms first
 and thereby set the universe in train
 I must enquire what earlier outburst
 made God, and then repeat and then again...
 Then if you say that God has always been
 I wonder at what point eternity
 alone and dark and silently unseen
 caused God to manufacture you and me.

 I charged the scientists to answer too
 Despite their claim to know, they can't agree
 Though Big Bang, out of which all we know grew
 is physics' fav-our-ite plan currently
 But science cannot tell me of the start,
 of what was there to make the big bang flash
 From nothingness, did everything depart?
 or are we just rebounding from a Crash

 No answer that I've heard can give me rest
 Theology and science can't agree
 It's Big Bang or a Creator's Request
 but each solution needs eternity
 And that is one thing that I can't allow
 It's just another game of sophistry
 Infinity does every thing endow
 No matter what the odds it still must be.

 So as my search for meaning moves along
 The church and Science answer as they can
 And though both can't be right, both can be wrong
 so now I'm back to where all this began.