Variety # 1

B.H.A

British Humanist Association
Pro human rights
Pro democracy
Pro egalitarianism
And pro mutual respect
Unless of course
You believe in God

A TIME OF MIRACLES

The cynics say of miracles
That they are a scarce commodity,
If they happen at all
But to my mind
There is nothing more miraculous
Than the birth of a child
It may be the most common placed
Of miracles
But it is miraculous
Nonetheless

ALL OF HUMAN KIND

All of human kind
Spread across the globe
Like a single organism
In bacterial proportions
And this human creature
This single entity
This living breathing
Multiplying mass thrives
And its heartbeat is love

SALISBURY VIEW

The late September sun
Bathed the water meadow
As sheep graze the lammas
In stark relief against the blue
Like a great golden arrow
The spire points heavenward

INDUSTRIALISED SPORT

Sport was industrialised by the Soviet Union
To promote communism
And not the money hungry capitalist west
But it profited capitalism

AMATEURISM

Amateurism, when participating
Was more important than winning
Well that idealism has been lost
Because today it’s win at all cost

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

A funny thing happened
On the way to the forum
That place devoid
Of propriety or decorum

I thought, should I engage?
Or keep well clear
Of the pit of vipers
And the poisonous atmosphere

A funny thing happened
On the way to the forum
I had a premonition
Of what was to come

So I decided the means
Didn’t justify the ends
So I went to the pub
To meet up with friends

VICTIMS OF THE SPITE

From the playground
To the workplace
From the street
To cyber space

Anyone who is different
Standing out in a crowd
Is targeted, because
Difference isn’t allowed

Its tribal I suppose
Or an animal instinct maybe
The bullies do
Hunt in packs certainly

The perpetrators
As far as I can see
Are basically driven
By their own Insecurities

Victims of the spite
Have suffered across time
For being themselves
That’s their only crime

THE VICTORIANS

The Victorians
Invented a lot of sports
Or if not invented,
Encouraged their development
As a means of instilling, fair play
Teamwork and discipline
Into the next generation
As way of training the youth
For life in the wider world
I don’t know how
The Victorians would view
The sportsmen and women of today
Not favourably I suspect

GOOD BYE BABY DOLL

You lie alone
So small, so fragile
Boxed like a doll
In a toy store window
Where passers by say
“It’s almost lifelike”
But you are not a doll
You are not for sale
For you are not whole
The essence that was you
Has left you empty
Like a box within a box
You lie alone
Your angelic soul
Was borne to heaven
On the wings of a dove

THE NINE WORTHIES

The Nine Worthies
Figures of history?
Men of scripture?
Men steeped in myth or legend?
Any or all might apply
But these figures personified
The chivalric ideals
Of the medieval world.

Three of the nine were pagans
Hector prince of Troy,
Slain by Achilles
Alexander the great
Conqueror of the world,
Julius Caesar,
Founder of a dynasty

Three of the nine were Jewish
Joshua, Apprentice of Moses
And leader of the Israelites
David, of the house of David,
Second King of Israel
Judas Maccabeus, leader
Of the Maccabean revolt

Three of the nine were Christian
King Arthur of Camelot,
Fair and just
Charlemagne, the first
Holy Roman Emperor
Godfrey of Bouillon, first ruler
Of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

These nine worthies
Were considered paragons
Of the ideals of chivalry