SHROVE MONDAY

 

Part of the traditional English Shrovetide

Falling on the Monday before Ash Wednesday

Shrove Monday, is a Christian observance

Which more importantly precedes Pancake Day

URANIA

 

The last mythological muse

Urania, muse of astrology

Foreteller of the future

By the stars array

Dressed in a cloak

Embroidered with stars

Holding a globe in her left hand

Always looking to the heavens

a goddess of universal love

And possessed with the holy spirit

The Renaissance Urania

Was muse to the Christian poets

And still gazed to the heavens

But saw God amongst the stars

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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