Introduction - history and raison d'être of this witty tome.
Big Red Book Navigation Page ... which is, as it says, a brief introduction to getting around the site and, eventually, escaping so you can tell all your own friends in order that they can join in a whispering campaign to publicise the site. However, this page isn't just a boring instruction manual. Readers will, I hope find some controversial ideas to argue with me about. I also pose a little problem for which you might find an answer on this page if you look hard. I'll say no more.
Jingles of Christmas Future - just as it happened, the poetry started pouring out over the festive season...
Choices - we've all got to make them, make sure yours are the right one's done in a timely fashion...
Prayer for Peace - this seemed to want to write itself after I listened to the news about the emerging crisis in Serbia
15 minutes of fame - subtitled 'A Poet's Shanty', this work-a-day song is a plea for inspiration packed biographical material. pick your own tune, it's another unfinished symphony. ho hum!
Frozen
in a car park - forgetting the essentials can leave
you cold and miserable, but song writing can cheer you up.
Kipper, the purrfect counsellor - once I realised the transmogrification (sorry for the pun) this flowed from the wording of "Pickle", one of my earlier efforts.
Excommunicant - ostensibly this is about offering therapy to an autistic person but you might wish to interpret it differently...
Wake up call - a poetic reminder to self to get a life and to stop being a couch potato buried in best sellers...
Philosopher's Stoned - can poetry turn ponderous words to philosophical gold or at least break through alcoholic mists?
Kosovo - having found that I couldn't watch the continuous newscasts about the war, I needed to say something to soothe my feeling of impotence.
Albion rising - when the King returns will we repeat the same mistakes?
Half-life part 2: "To do is to be" - if the previous piece made you angry, you'll probably want to find some way to express your feelings, this might help.
Inside the black box: B.F. Skinner, one of the founding fathers of behaviourism argued that the only legitimate source of data for the psychologist was observable activity. Further, he suggested that nothing going on inside the human cranium could be considered at all. Perhaps the most inscrutable of minds is that of the baby with whom we can only communicate by inference and interpretation. They must get very frustrated with the foolish giants they encounter in the neonatal period... this poem is a re-working of an earlier piece: "Do I remember..."
Discovering the universe in a matchbox - becoming increasingly house bound has the effect of sharpening one's changing perspectives. Hopefully, this offers a positive view.
The Pontiff we always know what's best especially when we're enthusiastic, idealistic and young...
Three brief verses for the third millennium - I knew I had to commemorate the millennium somehow but found myself confused. How should it be remembered? This expressed my feelings well at the time.
Amen! Let it be... - how many people are aware that when they say, "amen" they are asking for something to happen? This is my version of, "Have a nice day!" amen...
Just another day - an examination of the creative process in others, to do or not to do, to create or languish apathetically...
"Hymn for the Millennium" - no-one knows the day so, make sure you're ready; the piece offers an advent experience which seems to re-invent itself whenever I visit the words and music.
" Passion" - Christ's prayer to his father from the Cross...
Author's biography - night-time reading for the terminal insomniac: not an all inclusive, definitive document but, instead, just a few factional bits which may provide revelations.... and hopefully the occasional smile.
