Google Glass You Can't Surpass

The road ahead is shaping up

So much quality and class

I'm seeing things I never knew

With my astounding Google Glass

With my panoramic field of view

I'm on the verge of greener grass

The cutting edge of art I state

Check it out my Google Glass

Brave Girl

You gotta be a brave girl baby

right now you feel numb

Don't plan your tomorrow's

without dreaming of some

You gotta be a brave girl baby

your world is at hand

Don't dwell on the maybe's

hear these words understand

You gotta be a brave girl baby

walk the road on your own

Find your special good things

all your love is home grown

You gotta be a brave girl baby

sweet dreams when you sleep

Your time is this moment

and the future will keep

This 60’s style reminiscent lyric popped into my head last night (30^th March 2013). It arrived in full without any help from me.

Now I See The Light

Logically and obviously

Sometimes struggle to agree
For logic is a process

not a revelatory

Apparently it's clarity

which try's to solve a mystery

Unless it follows methodology

is just opinion obviously

Symmetry will vividly

demand a closer view

Proving nothing is more obvious

When logic finds itself askew

The Palatable Lesson

Two warriors went to fight a war
unaware that they might meet
both had different points of view
and never known defeat

Both highly skilled in combat
had studied all the rules of fear
which without it came poor strategy
a numbers game of disappear

The early morning battle field
sparkling dew of sunlight beauty
where best laid plans depended on
a common sense of duty

In later years of deep reflection
so much a wiser grasp of ways
without the banquets of diplomacy
you feast the cold soup of lost days

Inspired By Brian Moloney

Tablet Times

The concrete city once so pretty

Takes a tumble in the dust
As the tangible turns virtual
Invisibility held on trust

A covered tablet trundles on

With minimal provisions
Somewhere on this rugged plain
seeking suitable conditions
The wilderness is beckoning
A wish to play the freedom game

To seek a sheltered reservation

A cyber land-rush milestone claim
On the trail of wide-eyed crossings
Where the boundary waits in mush
For the gullible and the guileless

Who can't resist a Candy Crush

Everything is changing fast
Calamity Jane fears mass destruction

only solar powered tablets
can face the eve of reconstruction

The Forward Foreword

When your space is sparse and poky

In your hood you feel exposed

And the sugar in your lemon drink

Is not as sweet as you supposed

When you've taken all the shortcuts

Cut the heart out of your days

Finding nothing much in elsewhere

just one more ill for your malaise

There are other ways to look at things

Once you discard the weak disguise

If you can't see the bright side

Take those sunshades off your eyes

Mark My Words

How good is that whatever next
watched pots will never boil
safe and sound or keep it sweet
too many cooks will spoil

Time is not kept waiting
for me and you or any man
always heed less haste more speed
you’ll have to do the best you can

The weather is as usual
mustn’t grumble can’t complain
you must pop in and see us
if you pass this way again

Things get better every day
depends on where you’re standing
age is based on how you feel
to avoid misunderstanding

Ma knows best it’s good to rest
Soft soap is flannel power
so do be brief and take no grief

it’s getting better by the hour

I’ve heard it said so many times
it will get you in the end
the more the merrier, life’s a breeze
keep your eye out for a friend

Pavement Predator

Charity getting heavy here
I may lose the will to give

accosted almost anywhere
even where we live


We're not selling anything
here look my 'ID' badge
although we're loudly boisterous
we're friendly gently on the cadge

We give your door a mighty thump
to let you know we're here
we are the force of worthy cause
your local handout buccaneer

Now ante up and give us some
don't mean to scare you or harass
Your neighbours out of earshot
what you give will not embarrass

The Chugger brash and confident
a lifestyle to maintain
will plough the fields of charity
a golden egg domain of gain 

High street charity fundraisers are facing questions over their use of increasingly aggressive, intimidatory and potentially unlawful tactics.

 

A UK Budget Solution Illusion

2.5 million
aspiring unemployed

 

 

 

The weathermen predicting
the likelihood of snow

We reach out for the biscuit tin

Buttered Osborne's very low

Sleight of hand smooth-talking

In truth, no truth, no changes

Muffling whilst shuffling

A three card trickster rearranges

 

In two years time when all is well

Rose coloured future’s mapped

Transparent vanishing promises

Another pile of pledges scrapped

 

All aboard the well stacked deck

Just a few seats on this boat

‘Aspiration Nation’ freely sails

The seasick loser wouldn't vote

 

So get out there and stake a claim

Find the voice that used to matter

Lose that phrase 'I can't be asked'

Lest you be ruled by pointless chatter
 

George Osborne insists we're an aspiration nation. Not true

Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/budget-2013/52109/george-osborne-insists-were-aspiration-nation-not-true#ixzz2OAuxd900

Fight Bigotry Set Them Free

 

 

 

 

The women said their protest was directed at the Orthodox Church leader's support for Putin during his election campaign.

Sitting in my prison cell
considering the wall
wondering each moment
until my eyelids fall

For a minor provocation
disagreeing with the state
ruthless condemnation
is now my evil fate

For singing my frustration
in a one time hallowed room
the church and state colluded
lack of vision is their doom

We Owe Them So Much More Than Woo

Link to article: UK Science cuts a disaster

If we can help the children

understand what they must find

how time is there and everywhere

not out of sight nor out of mind

Breathing eating drinking

like laughing crying dancing

bathing in a cool clear pond

as if life was fun advancing

Look how we contain ourselves

say the parents to the child

free reins are not for novices

when your energy runs wild

Small wonder kids get angry

so little help on what to learn

too much toe the line hyperbole

so much adult crash and burn

Which means what?

If they can Stripe us in Cyprus then....

 

Ask yourself what you would do
if you found yourself defrauded
you would likely file a crime report
to ensure corruption was recorded

Ah but Bankers are above the law
synonymous with grand theft
they’ve screwed our world economy
may now be scraping up what’s left

Greek tragedy in the Cyprus cache
now makes it plain to see
new finance clauses lawfully
condoning daylight robbery

Our trust banks on safe keeping
we expect at least transparency
though not to watch incapable
above-board Bankster larceny

The hard-working Cypriots do not deserve this bank robbery

Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/52029/hard-working-cypriots-do-not-deserve-bank-robbery#ixzz2NtpF5NST

The Yard

Picture by Duncan Feirn

Someone may ask you one day

for directions to a peaceful space

you might consider this awhile

recalling a memory of another place

Someone may ask you one day

where can I go and just quietly be

you might point at the road

saying that way is sometimes free

Someone may ask you one day

is it possible to capture quiet repose

you might smile and bid them farewell

to seek fulfilment in the stillness of lows