ROSE MONDAY

 

Part of the traditional English Shrovetide

Falling on the Monday before Ash Wednesday

Rose Monday, is a Christian observance

Which more importantly precedes Pancake Day

HALL MONDAY

 

Hall Monday or Shrove Monday evening

Was a time for boys to commit petty crime

Now we don’t have it on one special night

Instead now it appears to happen all the time

GODS GRACE

 

Little Grace sat hugging her granddad

“Did God make you granddad”? She said

As she stroked his old, wrinkled face

Then ran her fingers across his balding head

“Yes, sweetheart God did make me”

Then she touched her own face 

“And did God make me too”?

“Yes, God made you too my little Grace”

She thought for a moment then said

“Well in that case then I guess

God must have fixed the problems

In the manufacturing process”

GENETIC MYSTERY

 

Our genes are passed on

To subsequent generations

Our complete genetic make up

Quirks, foibles, and pre dispositions

 

Parts of us are forever preserved

Due to the wonder of genetics

And we can see in our off spring,

Our own distinct characteristics

 

Through this miracle of procreation

The genes will even carry

From generation to generation

The basic instincts in Genetic memory

 

What a pity that God omitted

When he created Adam

The most important genes of all

The ones to carry wisdom

OH GUARDIAN ANGEL

 

Oh guardian angel

Please watch over me

It would be a comfort

To feel the guarantee

That should I go astray

Watching over me

You would be there

To guide me back to safety

 

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THE SAINTS AND THE ANGELS

 

The Saints and the Angels

Watch over us all the year round

You never know they are there

For they never make a sound

 

But they are there nonetheless

Watching over us everyday

And they are there to listen

When you have a need to pray

 

And should some weary soul

Let slip their earthly bonds

They have angelic company

On their way to the great beyond

DESIGN FOR LIFE

 

When you look out

Across the cityscape

The first impression is one of planning

With order and method

A systematic landscape

Above a thriving community

Running as a well oiled machine

Every element doing its part

A symbiotic relationship

Every person a cog in the machine

A perpetual entity

Evolving and changing

Redesigning itself

Outside the conurbation

As if in stark contrast

The country side and nature

Appear chaotic and haphazard

Without order or method

Simple and ordinary

Lacking the sophistication of civilization

But in reality the urbanites live in chaos

Dysfunctional and self-destructive

While in nature there is structure and order

And the closer you observe it

The more of its complexities

And intricate structures are revealed

Everything precision engineered

With order and purpose

Every organism contains nature’s code

The building blocks of our world

And of our universe

True sophistication exists at every level

Complex and extraordinary

So let man builds his cities

While God builds everything else