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Light verse, blank verse … words and greetings on special occasions
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This online scrapbook is still (July 2025) evolving, still a draft for consultation and feedback, not a finished product. After further reflection, and in the light of comments , suggestions and contributions from others, it will in due course, hopefully, be expanded during 2026 and further tidied.
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LIGHT VERSE AND BLANK VERSE
British Values, Brexit and Trump - the states we're now in
meditation with pictures on grim days and years ahead
All the World's a Keystage - what and how we learn now
from cradle to coffin, loathing and lamentation
Affectionate Alphabet - letters for the spirit of our time
beginning A is for Age, the one that is New
Dreadful Dystopia - spelling out what we're up against
fincluding N is for Nation, and NC for National Curriculum
Words and Platforms - choose, choose them both with care
final instruction in a memorandum for oppressors
A Week in a Life - influencing friends and making people
breathless days in the diary of a change agent
Moving and Shaking for Justice - a tale with many parts
conforming, reforming, deforming, transforming
What is a Lecture? - frozen frame in a moving film
courtesy and craft, love and art
Send them on Journeys - no-one's in this alone
day by day, heart, mind and soul
SPECIAL OCCASIONS
Being and Becoming - a special friend, in remembrance
his wit and wisdom, light and laughter, his kindness
For Those Who Remain - farewell to a London borough
speech at a leaving do
A Day to Remember - headlines for a young friend
speech on the day she became Bat Mitvah
Why We Here Today - bless this generation
speech at a family wedding