Emerald hills wake under mist
Soft winds sweep the silent bog
Heather bends where spirits kissed
Moonlight crowns the standing rock
Ancient oaks hold druid dreams
Old bards sang beside the fire
Silver rivers stitch the streams
Harp and wind lift hidden choir
Ghosts walk slow on famine roads
Grey seas guard the rebel shore
Storm and sorrow share their loads
Yet the land grows green once more
Fair folk stir in hawthorn shade
Sídhe doors glow deep below
Tuatha songs through dusk are laid
Ireland’s bones still breathe and glow
English engraver Eric Gill
created alphabet figures at will
Now known for his sans-serif type -face
thus carving out a unique artistic place
We worked together on a project,
New guidance updated each day,
The guidance became our bible,
Especially it’s Annexe A.
Throughout the work we did together,
We discussed progress every day,
And if we weren’t quite sure what we ought to do,
We referred then to annexe A.
I changed my job and we lost touch,
Meant to keep in contact some way,
But the next time I heard of her at all,
Was a sad and and depressing day.
I discovered that she’d had cancer,
A week earlier passed away,
I quickly rearranged my diary,
To the funeral went next day.
While in the packed church I was quiet,
people had lovely things to say,
I’m reminded of Gill when I read new regs,
When they include an annexe A!
14 March 2021
I remember contest
Sponsor:- Malabika Ray Choudhury
Today we say goodbye to jill
This surely is a bitter pill
A lively lady full of the beans
A cruel world so it seems
A kind hearted lady with lots of love
On her final journey up above
A mother of 4 to say the least
Head of the table at the feast
Witty, funny and caring to all
Enjoy life at the angels ball
Now all the pain you had has gone
Dance with the stars go on go on
A rainbow queen that you were
Brighter than bright what I hear
Life like dolls being your passion
Keeping them into fashion
Other things I know you love
Your grandchildren and daughters above
We'll all miss your thoughtfulness
Even things that made us blush
Your best friend feebie was your pooch
But definitely not Turner and hooch
Pampered dog with plenty of coats
Miss you on the rainbow floats
So look over us from up there
We all know you do care
When we want reasons why
We will just look up to the sky
Thankyou mum, granny for being you
Now you've gone we are all blue
Wish we could feel your gentle touch
We LOVE and MISS you so so much
O God
Why is your world such
Why is there injuries, hurt and deceit
I have heard you are present in everything
then why are their temples and mosques on earth
when people living on this earth are sent by you
then why are some friends and some foes
when everybody's story are written by you
then why are some unlucky and some masters of fate.
29 October
DID WILL, BILL AND GILL GET THEIR PILL?
I've got this absurd idea to invent a pill
Make it so men can get pregnant as well
Dudes walking around in camouflage
With a huge belly and know pregnancy is an un-earthly hell
This pill will be mandated and mandatory to ingest
Let’s let men do what women have been doing since Eve
Let the future climb out of Walter’s womb
With little baskets to make and baby blankets to weave
So mommy is in one hospital room, daddy’s in another
And the house will be noisy for quite a while
One kid from her and the other one from him
And the dad wonders how his wife can summon a smile
Don’t all of you get it, there’s been a problem for years
And we should have monitored each and every birth
Because all we’ve accomplished is a problem made worse
And doesn’t everyone understand we are over-populating the earth?
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