Technology

 

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An app for this

An app for that

An app even,

To feed your cat.

 

Mesmerised by mobiles

All these zombies shuffle along

Nearly getting run over

So internet throng.

 

Scanning with their debit cards

No time for cash

But I don’t trust these things

With their laser flash.

 

All this social media

Where is it going?

So much information

Toing and froing.

 

Good to keep in touch

And so easy to Google

Want to make a noise?

It’s better than a bugle.

 

Better check in on Facebook

So you all know where I am

Time to check my emails

To bin the latest scam.

 

But whatever happened to talking?

It’s now a forgotten art!

The cyber revolution:

This is just the start.

 

Paul Butters

 

© PB 19\3\22.

Nature

 

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Succulent, seductive floral displays please my senses no end.

Spring is here!

Promise of countless flowers

As Summer surrounds us with scorching sun.

Before long those Daffodil buds will trumpet out

And cherry blossoms will brighten each lengthening day.

 

Birdsong serenades us

In a twittering chorus.

Nature’s Jazz wakes me up

With every blushing dawn.

 

We live in Paradise

Yet keep our senses closed.

Immersed in mobiles and social media

The wealth of nature is ignored.

 

So open your eyes and listen with those ears.

Stop bombing neighbours

And robbing the poor.

Love Life

Embrace Mother Nature

And make the most

Of what Providence has provided

For us all.

 

Paul Butters

 

© PB 4\3\2022.

Gigantic Giraffe

 

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A gigantic, great giraffe thrusts his head

With that incredibly long neck,

Up into the high trees

To kiss the canopy.

 

He nibbles at those leaves,

Swirling them into his mouth

With that enormous tongue.

 

With his mottled, mosaic-patterned hide

He looks like a leopard on stilts

As he towers over all he surveys.

 

He’s not the most stylish of runners

With those spindly legs

But with that ever so long neck

This Giraffe is the king of the sky.

 

Only birds like Eagles can look down

On the Giraffe.

He is the highest mammal around

Tall and proud

Seemingly miles above the ground.

 

Paul Butters

 

© PB 21\2\2022.

Sibilance

 

The shires bask serenely in the summer sun.

Streams flow smoothly down the green hillsides.

All is well with the world

As apple blossoms bloom.

 

Such peaceful scenes are soothing to the soul.

Spiritually uplifting: a sensual seduction

Of sight, sound and aromatic smells.

 

Snakes may hiss and stoats may snarl,

But nothing reduces this sense of peace and calm.

Assonance and sibilance flows as I scribe

My idle dreams upon this page.

 

It’s good to let your imagination loose

To planets out there amongst the stars

Or simply let it roam over the slumbering countryside.

Good to escape the struggles and strife

Of daily life.

Good to sleep easy

After meditating at our leisure

Refreshing ourselves with Mother Nature’s

Soothing Love.

 

Paul Butters

 

© PB 8\1\2022.

Possibilities

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Science suggests that when we die

We become no more than skeletons and dust.

But The Bible says we will end up

With God in Heaven.

Others believe in Reincarnation:

That we promptly return

As another being –

A person, animal or whatever.

 

But what if God lives in each of us

One at a time

For Eternity?

What if He or She (or Whatever) foregoes those “Super Powers”

To experience Mortal living

In these frail bodies of ours?

Over and Over

Without End.

 

Which raises the possibility –

A reminder of “Matrix”

And just a fleeting thought

That right now I could be “The One”:

I could be God.

 

Paul Butters

 

© PB 4\1\2022.

Assertive Equality

 

 

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I am The King of All Existence.

Only I can Live this Life of mine.

So I have to be King.

 

Yet I choose to treat Everyone as an Equal.

That includes Kings and Queens and Presidents of State

Animals and Humans,

Rich and Poor.

Anyone Sentient.

 

I would like to be treated as an Equal in return

But know that could be

A Big Ask.

 

All I can do

Is work on People

To try to get them to be like me:

Assertively dealing with everyone else

As Equals.

 

We have to Work Together

As a Team

For The Common Good

The Wellbeing of All.

 

Is this too much to ask?

We will see.

 

Paul Butters

 

PB 1\1\2022.