The potential for goodness is in all of Humankind

When i was a young fellow Kathleen Buicke was in her primeAnd memories of her beauty have withstood the test of time.The matriarch of the Murphy’s Terrace Buickes that would seem fair to sayShe was the quiet achiever in her own quiet wayOf her true worth of a good human being she cannot be deniedAnd…

With snow white breast and feathers blackOn head and undersides and back.A bird in behaviour akinTo brown and tiny songbird wrenHe bob and dip in wren like wayAnd sing his merry dipper lay.Here in green vale where peace reign rifeIn free flowing rill he live his lifeHe feed and preen and dive and swimAnd lead…

These so called emergency soldiers poor East Timor did destroyWhilst the Indonesian military to stop them did not try.A year on in East Timor but what’s to celebrate?It came at such a heavy cost the birth of a New StateThey can replace the houses and life goes on they sayBut they can’t bring back the…

There must be twenty thousand and that is just a guessAnd if you pressed me further i’d say there’s more than less.The fruit bats or flying foxes the name most know them byLeave their roost in the evening when darkness cloak the skyIn search of fruit and wild figs they fly for miles aroundAnd return…

To be a teenager once more with energy to spareAnd to play football hard for an hour and run like the hunted hare.But in life as we know all too well the young years seem to flyAnd on looking back it doesn’t seem long since I was a SchoolboyAnd my golden twenties came and went…

He has given of his time to poorer people and only asked what they could afford to payAnd he is saving for himself the best of karma and good karma will be his reward one day.A well known poet and distinguished writer of limericks he has poems by the hundred to his nameAnd he is…