50 children will die in Africa in the next 10 minutes
From drinking ***** water
In Sudan a thousand children will die today from starvation
Your £3 pounds can feed a child for a week
Supply facilities to give a child clean water
Of course their government officials need no such thing
Give £19 pounds this Christmas to help feed a homeless drug addict
Oh and of course to make sure the directors of the charity
Get their 50 grand a year salary
Well I'm an old age pensioner
So please all you begging charities
Instead of asking me for money
Please give me a £1000 so I can have a better Christmas

Written for Mary my 85 year old mother in law who lost her husband John to cancer 10 years ago*

Of long walks across Scotlands  rain washed hills
Long days walking the Lakeland peaks with your dogs constant at your side
Strolling the gentle Surrey hills beneath sun dappled boughs
Accompanied by bird song music

Of days long past and memories held dear

Black sad Christmas and mothers will weep
For sons and daughters taken so young
Paris, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Iraq
Pointless wars???
Perhaps
But then, but then
A thousand other conflicts
Shootings in America
YOU , yes you who ascribe to the right to bear arms
Oh yes, the right to own a gun
The right to turn it on your own
Weep not my daughter
Shed not bitter tears my son
For daddy died an honorable death
For you
Mothers, fathers weep not
For they died for a noble cause
(wrong, they died because the military was the only job they could find)
And still the parents grieve
And still the children weep
No longer just black and white
Now every race and colour who ever lived

Happy Christmas

She was just a little stray dog
Wandering Moscow's cold grey streets
Then claimed in the name of science
By men who must succeed
And so into sputnik 2 they strapped her
And sent it on its way
Little Lemon still unaware
That this was her last day
She still had many years to live
But never had the chance
The scientists said they had a greater need
And so science had to claim her