The Way - by
Friend, I have lost the way.
/ The way leads on.
/ Is there another way?
/ The way is one.
/ I must retrace the track.
/ It’s lost…
questions
Enquiry Desk - by
Do you have the one
/ with that poem they read at the funeral
/ in that movie?…
Physics for the unwary student - by
Imagine that you are trying to balance on the surface of an expanding balloon.
Pilgrimage: Being the thoughts of an ex-soldier at Ypres, 8/8/28 - by
Me, an’ Jean, an’ the bairn;
/ The wee lad spierin’ an’ starin’;
/ Daunderin’ quiet an’ douce-like doun
/ The Menin road into Ypres toun.
/ ‘Did…
Timor mortis conturbat me - by
Will it give me six months warning
/ Or come when least expected?
/ Will I trip over it one morning
/ And find…
Sala de Esperanza - by
The sign on the hospital wall
/ identifying the space
/ begins with a Spanish phrase—
/ sala de espera,
/ waiting room.
/
/ A more symbolic phrase
/ may have deeper…
The Green Grass - by
The dead spake together last night,
/ And one to the other said:
/ …
Connecting Cultures - by
Such words can sound like flagged-up slogans, true. / What we merely say says nothing — / All that matters…
Chaunticleer’s Prayer - by
Whit gart ye gie
/ peacocks thon
/ tails fu’ o eyes
/ Lord?
/ Lord?
/ It’s me
/ gaurs the sun rise!
/ …
from The Book of Why? - by
Why doesn’t a chair fly?
Why do we have tongues?
Why are the stars so silver?
An Address to potential aliens - by
Is there any body out there?
Have you got ears for this?
Have you got osmosis?