Chomp till ready

Masticate with every bite,
Swallow when the time is right.
Delectation then transpires,
Tailored to your taste's desires.

Together

Souls interact when hearts entwine,
So let this be for yours and mine:
Confer your favour where it lies -
Confess the yearning in your eyes!

Return to form

The anxious waiting now is done,
To be replaced by boundless fun.
Brave Darla's back upon the scene,
As feisty as she's ever been.
Her eye's are bright, her gait is strong,
She's up and active all day long.

Look! Round the home and in the yard
Her padding paws are working hard
To mark the realm where she is seen
As rightful, sole and sovereign queen,
Whose majesty beyond compare
Belies her readiness to share
Her cheering mirth and potent flair
To spread good humour everywhere.

Attired in regrown snowy fur,
She casts a glow of warm allure,
Conceived to make admirers joyful
To have her once again an eyeful
And hold her place as perfect pal,
Fond playmate to her guy and gal.

Ever persistent

Not while the lamp of memory is lit
Need there be trepidation of the dark -
The present and the past maintain their fit,
And life persists while soul retains its spark.

The centre holds

Were we to roam the globe entire
In search of places to admire,
We would not move from this dear spot
Which we have found to share our lot -
It is the here where hearts of two conspire
To celebrate the ardour of love's fire.

Carrying on

As, in your caring heart, I found myself,
So, in your fateful absence, I am lost,
Until upon reflection in the round
I see the wondrous value of a life
Suffices to sustain the vital urge.

What lies ahead

A mantis with a pair of specs may point
A new approach to find the way to show
Our androids three dimensions when they look,
On our behalf, to undertake the tasks
That we, in hubris, for ourselves reject.

But how shall we respond once androids learn
To put anthropogenic skills to use
In order to supplant the human race -
Other, that is, than castigate ourselves
For failing to oppose this fateful trend
Which now seems set to threaten all our lives
And place us underneath the robot heel?

Anniversary

The days of spring are lengthening as winter nights retreat,
The Earth adopts a new attire from Sun's advancing heat,
And we are met again one year from that defining day
When you departed from our midst and blessed us on our way.
To  celebrate this anniversary is not thereby
To slip into nostalgia or dwell upon the past.
You urged us to pursue our paths without you by our sides,
And this we do while keeping safe a place where you reside.

Your last request we honour - to accept finality -
Save that to grieve is human and deep memories will last,
Though still throughout the turbulence that marks the life of man
The hopeful heart obeys the urge to love because it can.

Expecting

The chain of life, whose links are love's result
Embodied as the next to take their place
Within the pageant of the march of kin,
Is soon to be enlarged by newborn gain,
And we who share this message of such joy
Are joined together waiting on the day
Of culmination when fruition comes.

New Year 2014 (19/12/13)

The years are interchanging once again.
The one that had been new is reckoned old,
And as it ends another year begins
Whose youthful bloom will fade to see it age.

This is the cycle humans have devised
From nature's rhythms matched to their own needs
So as to mark the passage of brief lives
And lend a calming order to a stream
In which event would follow on event
Without a structure to direct affairs.

So thus we profit from inventive skills
And set about achievement of our goals,
Though yet we need the advent of good luck,
And wish good fortune still upon ourselves.

Christmas 2013 (19/12/13)

Twelve months have run their course to Christmas day
When now at Rancho Bauer the company
Are gathered to enjoy and celebrate
Familial affections that dictate
How, in the hustle of our modern life,
We recognise the profit we derive
From ties inherited and bonds avowed
By whose kind agency we are endowed
With love, which in its ministry of care
Maintains the fabric of the life we share.

The long day closes (20-23/12/13)

Each day that starts as Sol asserts his grip,
Warming the Earth and all that lives below
As he ascends to culminate then dip,
Will end in darkness when he leaves down low.

Live, love and cherish well those precious lives
Which rank above the tenure of your own -
That is the spirit's urge, which takes and gives
To reach in sum beyond itself alone.

So in the course of mounting up the years,
And taking stock of what of note has passed,
We find as reconciliation nears
A balance looms wherever eye is cast.

As mind advances through its consciousness
The soul approaches what it must address.







 

Scrabble King (23 Dec 2013)

A master of the game appears
To claim his rank of just esteem.
Behind are gone the prentice years.
Ahead, instead, a waking dream
Takes shape - a vision of renown
Acquired by practice of high art
Deployed to gain the golden crown
So prized by all who play their  part.

We relish at the Scrabble board
A former tyro who has scored,
By dint of skill, where few have soared,
Proving himself a timely lord.  

This be the way (17 Dec 2013)

Under the aspect of eternity
An age of any length must surely end.
We seek to banish our timidity,
To gather fortitude enough to fend.

So any end must constitute but one
Of many long surpassed upon our way,
That winding path we dread to tread alone,
Being conscious that we never can gainsay

That troubles of such sort we must surmount
As will put all our courage to the test
To pass through dangers of whatever count
By first adopting of all ways the best.

I pray you opt to spend an age with me
To venture forward, where no eye can see.

Companion faithful (Dec 14, 2013)

A silent ghostly presence haunts the house,
Inhabits each and every room by turns.
Wherever human footprints leave their trace
The quadrupedal  pawmarks follow up
While Darla keeps her vigil right on track
As soundless shadow constantly on guard

Getting together (8 Dec 2013)

How does a young man undertake his quest
To find a love to cherish for a life -
By travelling the world in fervid zest,
Observing how the others take a wife.

The modern girl of finest taste must take
 Good care in optimising what is sought,
By keeping all her senses wide awake
And spying what's in orbit to be caught.

And what attraction may there  then ensue
Of strength enough that friendship will be sure -
Why, that amalgam of affection true
Which sometime, often, ever will endure.

Yet what's to really know and savour is
How fateful outcomes issue from a kiss.

Wedding in London

A wedding took fair place in London town,
And all of those who, blessed by fortune, came
Will cherish in their hearts its matchless flame
Which as it played brought joy to London town.

Summer foray by wheelchair

In Whitstable of just renown
Your hospitality was fun.
Our fine repast being wine-washed down,
I ventured to be ably spun
Beside the windy pebbled beach
Past oyster bar and sailing smack.
Then through the winding streets, where each
Historic feature can bring back
A past that civic pride holds dear
And keeps alive from year to year.

Reflections from a drop

I saw a raindrop glitter in the Sun,
So like a pearl from that endearing ear
Dependant, sparkling, swaying in response
In concert with the movements of a life
Of unexampled truthfulness of quest
To find the genuine and scorn the rest.