On Youtube I learned
Of the
Carrington event
That has been
And will
Come once again
The problems It portends
to bring on
It's heals
brings a shudder
to some
Of my friends
And when mr. musk
Shot 49 rockets
By next day all
But 9 had bit dust
Consumed as
It were
By solar flares
Or at least
they would have
Us to trust
To have lived
In the green hills
Of Tennessee
With a hillbilly
there
On the land
Returning again to
Stone age
I really think I can
Live without
The tee wee
That serves to make the mind small
Yet I'd really
Miss the world wide web
That connects me to you all
Stephen has won gold at three sequential Paralympics,
In his event, the club, which you throw with everything,
In Atlanta 1996, in Sydney 2000, then in Athens picks,
And then in 2008 in Beijing he won silver for his fling.
In the 2012 Paras he was captain of the men’s athletics,
Then in 2016 he became an MBE for services to sport,
He lives in Carrington Northumberland where he did affix,
The Freedom of Carrington on 7th February 2014, fort.
Knocking at the Door
There was a time when hunger dwelt the land.
She who has no pity,
left her mark, the mark of death.
I was one of many that hunted the hare,
whose empty belly rumbled,
whose pale skin hung like a cloak.
Humbled this moment lies a great wolf,
Fierce frantic, writhing in terror,
tied down with rope.
But our friend is only a character
.
Upon hearing an enchantment.....
Who’s afraid of the? Who’s afraid of the?
You couldn’t catch pigs could you? Would you?
In mine comfort sleep
will I ever see you again?
Beware the Gypsy’s gaze,
alike a starving rat.
Imagining not compassion,
But a content satisfying loneliness
How cheery time was
when the great black pot,
bubbled ! and spat sharply.
Like the wolf snarling, snapping , staring,
who’s that?.... Knocking at the door !
Hendrifton Farm Christmas 09.
An old gypsy woman actually knocked at the back door,
the moment Carrington finished this poem.
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