The peacemaker’s creed

You are a yellow-belly but you sing.
You are a yellow-belly but want love.
You are a yellow-belly and say now.

You stand and say why wait; let us stop now!
Others only kill but you want to sing.
They come to look on you with hate, not love

The stabs start in the night but you give love.
Angry voices squash your pleas for peace now.
They crush your flesh but our spirit will sing

I’m a yellow-belly and sing love now

You got to have a dream

‘I want to go to Mars, now!‘ Jessie stamped

her foot and had the air of a scream building

up.

.....‘But baby youse can only do that in story

books,’ said Mama Sue, feeling all of her

seventy years.

.....‘Well I’m going’, Jessie said.

.....And she did—fifty years later

Fundraising for the Moon

Bored by working the crowd for funds, Pete

caught a glimpse of the news … Crash. The

TV broke into fragments. It was a lesson.

Rules were rules. Missing the moon

landing was a consequence of poor school

grades…

......He had learned, it’s why he founded the Children Matter Helpline.

When its right

If he woke up at dawn, he loved to just

watch her and pull aside the sheets, not for

sex that would come when it came, but to

trace his fingers over her tan-lines and feel

even in old age the wonder that she of all women could love him.

First drive

The car engine cranked and then roared

into life, zooming the car out of the driveway

into screeching traffic. A van clipped the

side spinning it back into the garden.

.....Recovering her breath, Ma Jones hit the

instructor with her umbrella. 'You see that's what happens when you don't explain.'

When you visit the wrong optician

‘Your refit is ready sir.’

.....The first visit resulted in a wrong prescription, an

incorrect lens fitting and a damaged frame.

.....Jack drove to the store that had boasted being the

best in town. A huddled conversation, suggested

‘third time lucky, sir?’

.....No he said,’ its once bitten twice shy.’

Old dogs can learn

Before the press of black key boards, confuse

Always think back to your school days Grandpa.

Surely, you can remember paper so blank

It left you with wonder at what could be.

Consider it the same and imagine.

Nay lad, Paper

On day wer bad

Switch on and move over.