The gift of compassion is to say the least rare

I shine my torch but I cannot see them they hide from the glare of the lightThe secret of survival for these tiny amphibians is to remain concealed and out of sightOf nocturnal or diurnal predators their elusiveness is their only means of defenceIn wet weather in their breeding season they sing in the drain…

He may be in his seventies he may look old and grayBut at heart he’ll remain young until his dying day.The bard of Buninyong Village with fondness I recallIn a place of fine people the finest one of allFar beyond his beloved Buninyong his is a well known faceThe good side of humanity he only…

When you walk to the counter for to buy drink you feel people at you stareThough at you they are not looking and of you they seem unaware.You feel insecure and vulnerable in the bigger World out thereI do not envy you your shyness ’tis a heavy cross to bearIs it something you were born…

And that he was well versed in Chaucer and Shakespeare as well as Dante’s Divine ComedyBut to tell the truth I found him rather boring five minutes talking to him seemed too long for me.As he stood to leave the train and said goodbye at the next station the sigh I gave was one of…

The champion coursing greyhound from DuhallowHad won perhaps his greatest victory.Owned by Dan Halloran and trained by his son the black dogWon his final course with a few lengths to spareThe son of Newdown Heather bred for coursingShowed great speed to be first to turn the hare.Running in the nomination of Con DugganA greyhound owner…

Of our so called self appointed judges by them reputations destroyedAnd ignorance is bliss to some people and ignorance breeds conceit and pride.A local young man a law transgressor though he is not a bad person at allFor drink driving he has lost his driver’s licence a tarnished man though his crime seems smallCompared to…