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Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me if you'd like to use any of the poems. Email: geoverse@hotmail.co.ukThanks:
With thanks to my sources of inspiration: my wife and her Open University books; Horsham Geological Field Club, its speakers and field trips; my son for sharing his internet space; and, er, well, life, really.
Tag Archives: Personal
James Webb’s telescope
The universe has just got much, much larger… Continue reading
Dem bones, dem bones
It was news to me . . . Continue reading
Underactive
Must work harder . . . Continue reading
Forgetting
A cure, but do it immediately . . . Continue reading
Lancing Clump
On the skyline of my youth Continue reading
Of course, I never do it
Roads in Britain have a speed limit of 70 miles per hour, though you’d never think it applied on motorways. I’m cruising down the motorway, at spot-on seventy, So why is all the other traffic overtaking me? Where are the … Continue reading
Ageless
Why didn’t I think of it before? Continue reading
Joseph
A name from the 18th century branches of the family tree. He’s here! He’s arrived! A brother for Jess, A grandson for Gordon and Mo. His name’s really Joseph, But it won’t be too long Before we’ll be calling him … Continue reading
Existentially baffled
Unwittingly served up by a waitress Continue reading
Here
A special place Continue reading
Science
Is that what’s in the Science Museum? Continue reading
Twittering
Tweets and Twits . . . Continue reading
Gordon’s garden – the latest
I like to keep it guessing… Continue reading
Silenced!
I hope what I lost will turn up soon… Continue reading
Waste paper
Never mind how long a piece of string is, how long does a till receipt have to be? Continue reading
Directions
Don’t ask me for them Continue reading
History lessons
What I learned wasn’t all history . . . Continue reading
Durham Cathedral
What would Cuthbert think? Continue reading
Gibbs Dentifrice
Gone, but not forgotten Continue reading
The milkman’s horse
Long gone, fondly remembered Continue reading
Isaac Newton
Thanks, Sir! Continue reading
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Un-invited guests
Lost in the post? Continue reading
Jessica Judge
Sunday’s child Continue reading
Street View
Something’s missing. . . Continue reading
Blog slog
But it was worth it Continue reading
Old friends
A reunion and an admission Continue reading
Poet-tree
Oh, hang it. . . Continue reading
Clouds
I’m still waiting. . . Continue reading
An der schönen, blauen Donau
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em Continue reading
FAQs
Unanswered questions Continue reading
Hoovering the garden
Cleanliness is next to madness Continue reading
The flint miners of Cissbury
Arrowheads? What arrowheads? Continue reading
The Bubnoff
Units of immortality Continue reading
Your face is familiar
Have we met before? Continue reading
Age
You’re as old as your cells Continue reading
No place to hide
Clinical exposure Continue reading
The cleaner
Life is but a dream Continue reading
Skin deep
Epidermal support Continue reading
Open wide
Recognition’s a funny thing Continue reading
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On the mend
Mister Fixit Continue reading
I’d walk a million miles
Or wait six weeks Continue reading
Nathan
Rhyme alert! Continue reading
Clickety-click
The Bingo game of life Continue reading
Dream poem
Or did I imagine it? Continue reading
Jack of all trades
Adequate, but cheap Continue reading
Cause and effect
A personal perspective on global warming Continue reading
St Michael was my tailor
My patron saint has deserted me Continue reading
Sealed for life
A casualty of progress Continue reading
Granddad?
I’ve been given a title Continue reading
Amelia
What’s in a name? Continue reading
Whatever next?
I’m wondering, too… Continue reading
At the sales
Hanging around Continue reading
If it’s broke. . .
A technological fix Continue reading
The breadmaker
Good, but not good enough Continue reading
Knocking at the door
Not HIM, already? Continue reading
Memory stick
I need a socket Continue reading
Hello, what are you doing?
A very good question Continue reading
The Second Law and me
Down with entropy! Continue reading
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The queue
A waiting game Continue reading
I give up
I’m not the man I was Continue reading
High hopes
Heavenly apirations Continue reading
Perhaps
They seek him here, they seek him there… Continue reading
I wonder
A celestial put-down Continue reading
The skin that I’m in
It’s all mine! Continue reading
If you can’t stand the heat…
Why not leave the cooking to me? Continue reading
Ladies and gentlemen
Sexual discrimination Continue reading
Plumbing the depths
Tweaking and leaking Continue reading
Writer’s block
Winter blues Continue reading
The fall
Going down… Continue reading
Nostalgia
A good wallow Continue reading
Vest is best
Something close to my heart… Continue reading
Recycling
How ‘green’ can you get? Continue reading
Streptomycin
An antibiotic hero Continue reading
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Dust to dust
The answer to a persistent problem Continue reading
Family tree
Diminishing returns Continue reading
What if?
Are the odds stacked against you? Continue reading
The sixth commandment
Thou shalt not kill what? Continue reading
A spider, an ant and a fly
Three sticky ends Continue reading
Come dancing
Quicks, slows, heels and toes Continue reading
Indecent exposure
A cost-benefit situation Continue reading
A magnetic personality
Marketing strategists, take note Continue reading
The pollster
Watch how they tick you off Continue reading
Return to sender
Postal rage Continue reading
Analogue
I grew up in an analogue world Continue reading
Poetry in motion
Better out than in… Continue reading
Earth
An early geological discovery Continue reading
Netted
New on the Net Continue reading
Hammer of the South
some have power thrust upon them Continue reading
Ravages of time
The age of man that Shakespeare missed Continue reading
Gordon’s garden
Evidence for fossil redistribution Continue reading
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Tagged Arun (River), Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Personal, Points of view
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Gordon’s garden again
Pedological redistribution Continue reading
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