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Copyright & contact:
Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Please contact me at mail.geoverse@gmail.com if you'd like to use any of the poems.Thanks:
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.
Category Archives: GeoVerse
Ache’s and pain’s?
Yes, from this advert! Continue reading
Let cuttlefishes be!
Not a lot of people know this . . . Continue reading
Possessives
It’s not always quite as straightforward as adding an apostrophe–s, as I found when I consulted the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors and Hart’s Rules. The possessive of words, I confess Is often a cause of great stress. The … Continue reading
Fallen headlines
There’s a Society for them . . . Continue reading
A Government warning
Take this one with a pinch of rock salt Continue reading
Asteroid 21012 DA14
Fingers crossed . . . Continue reading
Fingers crossed
Brrrrr! Continue reading
Function denial 2
A barrier with attitude? Continue reading
The poinsettias’ plight
Pity the poor poinsettias Continue reading
Some like it hot
Rimicaris hybisae – an impressive name for an intriguing shrimp! Continue reading
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The Hoff crab
A hairy nickname Continue reading
Advertising works!
Didn’t sell much, though… Continue reading
Keep calm and carry on
Don’t panic! Continue reading
Daisy Bell
Wasted wooing? Continue reading
Gordon’s garden – the latest
I like to keep it guessing… Continue reading
A Jurassic Coastal Lady
Mary Anning, recognised Continue reading
Calendar days
An unavoidable cycle Continue reading
MSW and the Bluebell Railway
More than leaves on the line . . . Continue reading
Silenced!
I hope what I lost will turn up soon… Continue reading
Special skills
Could come in handy in the future . . . Continue reading
Civil War
Divine ambivalence? Continue reading
Jet Stream
The overlying cause of the underlying weather? Continue reading
Fishing nets and Cornish pasties
A pair of wacky analogies Continue reading
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Keep taking the tablets
Now, what was the last thing the doctor said? Continue reading
Money spider
More research needed? Continue reading
Waste paper
Never mind how long a piece of string is, how long does a till receipt have to be? Continue reading
On the naming of dung-stones
The geologist, mineralogist, and determinedly eccentric Reverend Willam Buckland (1784–1856) was the first to give a name to a type of fossil about which his colleague, Dr. William Wollaston, believed Georgian England would probably have preferred not to talk. You’ll … Continue reading
Sunshine
Good to see it again! Continue reading
Run, rabbit!
Still good advice! Continue reading
Al Fresco is innocent!
What are the neighbours up to? Continue reading
Willie the worm
A sartorial lesson. Young Willie the worm Liked to wriggle and squirm As he burrowed his way through the dirt. But he wondered one day, In a worm sort of way, What life would be like in a shirt. “A … Continue reading
Slow Joe
Be careful what you wish for! Continue reading
Scratching the surface
The Earth is not impressed . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Earth, Geology, Ignorance, Plate tectonics, Seismic surveys, Stratigraphy
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Boring Chalk
For a tunneller, certain Chalk strata have undesirable characteristics, such as the presence of hard flints or sand-like phosphatic chalk. Tunnelling is expensive, but so are delays and damage to tunnel boring machines which hit unexpected geology. So engineers planning … Continue reading
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Tagged Chalk, Geologists, Geology, Ignorance, Mortimore (Rory), Stratigraphy
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Here in Horsham
It’s the place to be! Continue reading
A short Planck
If there’s anything shorter, we wouldn’t be able to measure it. Continue reading
It’s a granular world
But it might help explain a real-life problem . . . Continue reading
Directions
Don’t ask me for them Continue reading
Apostrophe aid
A flower in the wrong place? Continue reading
Lifesavers
A life-saving decision? Continue reading
Bakin’ eggs
These are eggs with a purpose . . . Continue reading
Undescribed
But a vital part of the squid anatomy Continue reading
Quack knack
Well, that’s what it seems like . . . Continue reading
History lessons
What I learned wasn’t all history . . . Continue reading
Durham Cathedral
What would Cuthbert think? Continue reading
A feminine fan
But this one won’t get you all a-flutter . . . Continue reading
Gibbs Dentifrice
Gone, but not forgotten Continue reading
It’s Christmas in Horsham
But not very Christmassy for some Continue reading
Trolleyhogs
Found in supermarkets . . . Continue reading
The milkman’s horse
Long gone, fondly remembered Continue reading
Solar voices
Taken for granted, this is the only way they can complain Continue reading
Homo granddadus
A really important outcome of evolution Continue reading
Hell’s Kitchen
If you’re an oil shale, you need to have been there. Continue reading
How Saint George lost his Land
Down, but not out Continue reading
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Tagged Earthquakes, Geology, Pangaea, Plate tectonics, St. George's Land
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The way of a worm
A word for a worm . . . Continue reading
Isaac Newton
Thanks, Sir! Continue reading
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Tagged Gravity, Light, Mathematics, Newton (Isaac), Personal, Spacetime
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Going up to London
And back down again . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Big Ben, Dinosaurs, London, Millennium Bridge, Rhymes for children, Tate Modern, Thames, Travel
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Legs
But not the usual sort . . Continue reading
Ordinary Time
Anything but! Continue reading
Paradigm lost
You can stretch an interpretation of the evidence just so far . . . Continue reading
Bracklesham Bay
Or David Bone’s Bay? Continue reading
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Tagged Bracklesham Bay, Fossils, Geologists, Geology, Geology fieldwork, Limericks
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The hanging basket
Help is at hand Continue reading
Things
Just phases we go through Continue reading
Jessibels
Ouch! Continue reading
On the bowling greens of Worthing
White-clad in Worthing Continue reading
Function denial
Sign design Continue reading
Green hills
In need of security measures Continue reading
Paludina
Beware of imitations Continue reading
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Tagged Building stones, Fossils, Geology, Paludina, Sussex Marble
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False pretences
Intelligent’s? Continue reading
New Titanomyrmaland
A Queen’s royal progress Continue reading
White Wight?
A bleached Isle? Continue reading
April showers
Rain on the plain, but not in Spain . . . Continue reading
Un-invited guests
Lost in the post? Continue reading
Welcome to Geoverse!
This is a collection of original poems which began with some about geology, which is why it’s called Geoverse; but there are now poems on all sorts of things – life, the universe, and (almost) everything. Click ‘About the author’ … Continue reading
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Jessica Judge
Sunday’s child Continue reading
Street View
Something’s missing. . . Continue reading
Glendonite
A technique for dedicated geologists only Continue reading
Blog slog
But it was worth it Continue reading
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Easy breezy Continue reading
Old friends
A reunion and an admission Continue reading
Please rinse and return your milkman
I bottled out. . . Continue reading
A lasting impression
A canine coincidence Continue reading
Causes
It’s good to know what you don’t know Continue reading
Twinkle, twinkle, little sar
Not just like a diamond… Continue reading
A girl’s best friend?
And more. . . Continue reading
Much ado about nothing
A vacuous poem Continue reading
Whodunit?
The case of the ex-Period Continue reading
Travellers’ rest
A dream poem Continue reading
Stratford-upon-Bytham
What’s in a name? Continue reading
Growing organic
Why pick on me? Continue reading
The leek
Vegetable delight! Continue reading