Did You See That?

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Black Eyed She

Big news full of scary stuff

A local paper writes

Regular visits every thirty years

To give the unsuspecting frights

Maybe alien black-eyed vampires

Who’d like to meet you for a drink

Then scare your living daylights out

Quite enough to make one think

They like to choose a lonely spot

Near a copse or forest clump

Then with paranormal spookiness

They appear and make one jump

Without a trace they disappear

Or runaway and hide

Headlines selling local papers

The truth on which, let you decide

Like a bolt of striking lightning

Apparitions come and go

Seen only by those easily duped

Who need no evidence to show

Realia 2000

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When searching for security

Impaired emotions fight for place

Manufactured visual incidents

among a putty moulded race

No need to think of who you are

In your clipped and crippled cell

where war and domination

Keep you calm whilst raising hell

Your Ma and Pa eventually

Had no time for what you needed

where table talk and interaction

were left to leave you superceded 

Children should be seen not heard

Not interfere with parlour games

Yet even Nanny plays machines

Loving you in picture frames

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Adult/child interaction is vital to a child's development.

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After time has passed away

With all signs of life expired

When all constants in the universe

Have mathematically retired

Somewhere in the quiet void

With no particular place to be

In distances too far apart

Is nothing’s home, 'Eternity'

All causes then neglected

All effects stripped out untied

All memory of anything

Locked away, 'Access Denied'

Me oh My oh! Down at the Bio

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With my biohacker buddies

And scientists of that ilk

Imbibing engineering parts

Enjoying home-made milk

Fermented foods and flavourings

Generating plastic drugs

Made to measure bloodless steaks

From DNA without the bugs

Manufactured evolution

Is the shape of things to come

As our made to measure gardens

Get Annie’s lean and mean 'gene-gun'

Two billion extra mouths to feed

Changing points of view synthetic

Filling faces with the stuff of life

Global farmyards biogenic

"Thousands of researchers will descend on Boston this fall for an event billed as the world’s largest gathering of synthetic biologists. The field is evolving so rapidly that even scientists working in it don't agree on a definition, but at its core synthetic biology involves bringing engineering principles to biotechnology." JOSIE GARTHWAITE - SEP 25 2014, 1:47 PM ET

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Wintry Muse

Thinking Season

The chuckling of old summer leaves

As I walk on winters road of grey clouds

Looking sideways just in case I missed

Any remnants of last summer’s crowds

Sometimes there is a peaceful feeling

On lonely strolls in morning’s first light

Where the crisp air promises action

As if it already has tomorrows hindsight

Three months must slowly creep
Before I dare again to dream anew
When wintry carpet patterns
Are reborn to lighter nights in muted blue