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Remembrance

Veterans honoured Dead remembered Nation pauses People stop True remembrance learns its lessons Abhors conflict None forgot Peace in living not just speaking Among peoples barriers fall Resolution of world problems first begins within us all SCW November 2015

Loveproof - A short reflection in rhyme on John 4:1-26 and Love that breaks barriers and boundaries

 

An Silly Ode to Halloween

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A Wet Summer Holiday in Rhyl

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  'We're very lucky!" I tell the boys, "Not many can afford a LUXURY  Platinum Caravan! (Much cheaper than abroad) "It's very spacious!" I tell the boys as they squeeze into their "room": "A luxury PLATINUM  Caravan!" (I hope it stops raining soon) "It's not for us!" I tell the boys as we sit around, plain bored. "A luxury platinum CARAVAN! " (Next year we go abroad) 14/08/2019 Simon Wright

Luxuries! (A rhyme written in response to the vote by the House of Commons to block plans to extend free school meals for the most vulnerable children in society)

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  "Luxuries! Luxuries! We must have responsibility!" cries the MP from the comfort of his salary and lunch subsidy. "Avoid nationalisation! Let's have rationalisation for the joy of privatisation is the freedom to choose. Heat or food? Clothes or light? It's about liberation in the ongoing fight to unshackle the people and allow them to decide! Emergency dinners is fiscal suicide. We need every penny to keep our bombs primed and ready to use if we are inclined. We must honour our contracts and look after our friends We must keep in their favour (Our retirement depends on the offer of seats on a top business board Earning more money as we head to the Lords). So, let us be honest - we're in this together And the decisions ahead are a question of whether we avoid the tough actions fiscal prudence demands. Free dinners are wasteful - you must understand. And now the debate and the vote has been won, we're off for a meal Subsidy anyone?" Luxuries! Luxurie...

Poem - Perspective

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  As if it were a dream A distant thing to see The memory of emotions Rise up within me Not with fear-tinged feeling But gentle to the heart Giving fresh perspective Enabling a new start Simon Wright  27/11/2015

Happy Christmas!

Babies don't gently arrive. They invade. And the world is never the same. They win your heart and then their rule begins. You fit around them. Your life changes. Your timetable, your priorities, your choices. No more is it just all about you. It's all about the baby. And as the baby grows so does your love and your relationship grows and grows until the time, much later in life when you find yourself totally dependent on the one who invaded your life so many years before. Have a wonderful, joyful, fantastic Christmas and a peaceful New Year - and remember, Jesus is not just for Christmas!