Miscellaneous

The Can Guru Lectures #314

One day the earth will be blackened rubble. Even now, it's nought but a bubble. Gurning youths with simian stubble. Owt for nowt, at the double. No...
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Son of My Father

What's this one about? Fathers and sons, old age, what awaits us all... and loads of other things, you decide. Image in PD, source Look and Learn.com, Odysseus and the sirens.
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Black Hole

Another old one. I treated it to some punctuation and one word change. So now it's a completely different poem, isn't it? Picture is from wiki commons. Used under CC 4.0 licence
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Letters from a Daily Mail reader - letter to the National Trust

Dear National Trust I was disgusted during a recent visit to a national trust property, to find that there was no dead squirrel sticking out of the...
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Poetry Commotion

And this is the oldest thing I could find today. It used to be on an earlier incarnation of UKA, in 2010. image made at canva.com
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Radio Galaxies

Very old poem, written 2011. I like it, but you don't have to. Image created using canva from elements provided.
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A Place in the Sun

This is an old poem, 11 years old, in fact. I had been in Spain for 8 years at the time I wrote it. Nothing lasts forever and I think I knew it even then. Anyway, not much of interest here. Image Wikipedia commons.
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Another Word That Is Disappearing.

My kids have not heard the word. My young colleagues, they haven’t heard the word either. For 100% comfort, my favourite shoe brand is Pavers! I wore...
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Sir Kier Starmer Superhero – Sir Kier and the climate emergency

“Oh no, we’re doomed.” “The planet is overheating.” “The ice caps are melting causing floods, and the intense heat is causing crop failure, famine,...
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