NUMBERS OF TORTOISES AND TERRAPINS

Numbers of Tortoises and Terrapins

In the wild are falling faster and faster

Biologists and Environmentalists

Are all predicting a Turtle disaster

DREDGING IS NO SILVER BULLET

Dredging is no silver bullet

Is the word coming from their ranks

But at least it would be something

To prevent rivers bursting their banks

While the environment agency

Just blindly keep on firing blanks 

GULF OF IRONY

 

America doesn’t need to invade

To find oil anymore

Because in an ironic twist of fate

Oil is invading their shore

A GULF OF DIFFERENCE

 

I must say I like President Obama

He does his job with great aplomb

But admitting defeat in the gulf

Is a step to which he might have to succumb

For what he faces in the Gulf of Mexico

Is a problem that America can’t bomb

THE GULF OF MEXICO

It’s great to watch Obama

Playing his presidential games

Talking about kicking ass

And taking names

 

He reminds me of King Canute

Standing on the beach

As his political grasp

Exposes the shortness of his reach

 

I think the irony of the situation

Is well suited

As one of the great polluters

Have now become the polluted

KEEN TO BE GREEN

 

Local authorities’ love recycling

It’s a green policy and its one that wins

They want to reduce the carbon footprint

Of the electorate, for their sins

But if they were truly serious

They’d stop making so many recycling bins

WE’LL ALL BE KILLED

 

They tell us we are in the grip of another

Catastrophic climate crisis

That will drown the world

By melting the polar ices

Well if you are unconvinced

That the sword of doom is falling

Then you know the argument is weak

When data is replaced by name calling

Anyone not on message

Gordon Brown tells us in his piety

That we are no better

That the flat earth society

Well is it any wonder we are sceptics

When in the eighties we were told

By the doom Sayers

We would all die because of the hole

In the ozone layer

If we did not act we would kill

The polar bears and the Pandas

Well to be frank someone sold a lot of fridges

On the back of that propaganda

LITTERBUG JITTERBUG

 

Discarded from a moving car

The litter travels very far

Each piece small or big

Performs a little merry jig

Each windblown piece at play

Participates in the ballet

Plastic bags float with ease

Waltzing high upon the breeze

Sweet papers flutter

Down in the gutter

Coke cans or maybe tango

Dance the tin can fandango

While larger papers jitterbug

Thanks to the litterbug

WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN?

 

“Who killed Cock Robin?”

 “I,” said the Sparrow,

“With my bow and arrow,

I killed Cock Robin.”

 

“Who killed the sparrows?”

 “We,” said the Humans,

“Without many deftly hands,

We killed the sparrows.”

 

“Why kill the sparrows?”

“Because they are so small,

And don’t matter at all,

That’s why we kill the sparrows.”

 

“Who killed the humans?”

“Mother nature did the act,

For man’s breach of contract,

Mother nature had to act”

BEASTS OF THE AGE

 

Where once was beauty

Now stand the monsters

Towering tall and lean

Arms stretching outwards

 

These beasts have spread

Across the land and sea

Like a virulent rash

Reaching out to infinity

 

The towering beasts

Came here to save us

Cleanly making power

Without dirty green house gas

 

They stand as sentinels

Unsightly and offensive to the eye

Come to save the world

With their clean power supply

 

In light offshore breezes

Windmill arms turn slowly

It’s a shame they can’t work

When it gets a bit blowy

GLOBAL WARMING?

The Environmentalists believe in evolution

Yet refuse to believe

The planet is evolving

Yes there is climate change

Yes there is global warming

But leaving the car at home won’t stop it

 

Weather patterns are cyclical

And we are still coming out of an ice age

And therefore the global thermometer is rising

We are evolving as we have many times before

Britain has been desert, oasis

Ocean and tundra in its history

Long before man came on to the scene

What arrogance to think

We have so much influence on something so vast and complex

Our planet will continue

To evolve as it did before we arrived

Long after we are but a distant memory

 

The whole issue is being used by the cheese cloth and sandal brigade to intimidate people into changing their lifestyles

This will have no effect on the global climate whatsoever 

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

What is the lesser of these evils?

Ugly wind farms scarring our hills

Wave power trapping human mess

Or the three eyed fish of Dungeness

I AM THE SMOKE

I am the smoke

That will simply float away

Drift away powerless to stop

There is a kind of beauty about me

Also there is danger in me.

I am mercurial

I am thick like pea soup fog

Or thin and translucent like a veil

I have no purpose

I am only an after thought

I am the villain

A bi product of something useful

I am the smoke

MONEY FOR OLD ROPE

 

When I was a boy

Jumble sales helped good causes

Raise some cash

And if the jumble didn’t sell it

The rag and bone man

Took away the trash

In the eighties

Car boot sales began

Turning people’s junk into cash

Then later eBay appeared

Taking things once valuable

And selling them like trash

I AM THE SMOKE

I am the smoke

That will simply float away

Drift away powerless to stop

There is a kind of beauty about me

Also there is danger in me

I am mercurial

I am thick like pea soup fog

Or thin and translucent like a veil

I have no purpose

I am only an after thought

I am the villain

A bi product of something useful

I am the smoke

I WAS ALWAYS TOLD THAT FARMING

 

I was always told that Farming

Was a terribly tough way of life

Well, I haven’t found that to be the case

And nor has Audrey my wife

We were told by almost everyone

We were making a big mistake

But we chose to be Wind Farmers

And honestly, it’s a piece of cake

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

 

What is the lesser of these evils?

Ugly wind farms scarring our hills

Wave power trapping human mess

Or the three eyed fish of Dungeness

FOUL PLAY

 

Governments and big corporations

Pollute our water for drinking

Fill our food with chemicals

And pollute the very air we’re breathing

With poisons and carcinogens

And they manage this beyond all belief

By blaming all the worlds ills

On the innocent looking tobacco leaf

POINT’S OF VIEW

 

I have found as I have travelled life’s highway that in the end everything comes down to perspective.

For example, if you are inside a car your perspective would be that the car was an efficient and economic means of getting from a to b.

However, if you were a pedestrian walking and urban pavement you would view them as dirty, noisy and smelly polluters of the planet.

That’s perspective.

I have found as I have travelled life’s highway that in the end everything comes down to perspective.

For example, if you are inside a car your perspective would be that the car was an efficient and economic means of getting from a to b.

However, if you were a pedestrian walking and urban pavement you would view them as dirty, noisy and smelly polluters of the planet.

That’s perspective.

Another fine example was Diana (Princess, lady etc) she was viewed in almost equal measure as one of three things.

Firstly, as a demure heroine of the people, secondly as a scheming, manipulative self-publicist or thirdly as a vacuous clotheshorse.

 

Note that this can be applied to every conceivable area of debate whether it is Homosexuality, Religion and politics or eating habits the list is endless.

 

If another case in point is necessary perspective is regularly demonstrated in any televised football match.

When a disputed incident occurs, a goal, a penalty, or a bad tackle, it is examined by the panel of experts and it is viewed from various angles.

Some show it is, some show it’s not and some are inconclusive, but you are able to make a balanced judgement because you have seen it from all the different angles or perspectives or to put it another way you have viewed it through other people’s eyes.

Unfortunately, in normal everyday events we are unable or more likely unwilling to see an issue through another’s eyes.

Is it any wonder that we are so good at war?

GULF OF MEXICO

THE GULF OF MEXICO

It’s great to watch Obama
Playing his presidential games
Talking about kicking ass
And taking names

He reminds me of King Canute
Standing on the beach
As his political grasp
Exposes the shortness of his reach

I think the irony of the situation
Is well suited
As one of the great polluters
Have now become the polluted

THE GULF IS EVIDENT

The gulf is evident
Between man and president
The gulf is clear
Between success and failure
The gulf is a disaster
For president Obama

A GULF OF DIFFERENCE

I must say I like President Obama
He does his job with great aplomb
But admitting defeat in the gulf
Is a step to which he might have to succumb
For what he faces in the Gulf of Mexico
Is a problem that America can’t bomb

GULF OF IRONY

America doesn’t need to invade
To find oil anymore
Because in an ironic twist of fate
Oil is invading their shore