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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
Oak and willow
Useful stuff… Continue reading
Plan of atttack
At bug HQ Continue reading
ExoMars Rover
A-rovin’, a-rovin’… Continue reading
Chondrules
A hint of ancient provenance Continue reading
Poet-tree
Oh, hang it. . . Continue reading
The music tree
A root-and-branch analogy Continue reading
Joan zone
A vision of cleanliness? Continue reading
The Owl, the Pussy-cat and the telescope
An astronomical nursery rhyme Continue reading
Dora the borer
Penetrating polydora Continue reading
Swan talk 3
A drought, no doubt Continue reading
Clouds
I’m still waiting. . . Continue reading
Oh, I wish I could keep all me teeth
Easy come, easy go Continue reading
An der schönen, blauen Donau
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em Continue reading
First impressions
Things are seldom what they seem . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Diseases, Einstein (Albert), Matter, Physics, Plate tectonics, Reality, Relativity, Time, Witchcraft
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Horsham’s Marmite
Loved and hated, now restored Continue reading
Horsham Clay
Let’s call a spade a spade Continue reading
FAQs
Unanswered questions Continue reading
Hoovering the garden
Cleanliness is next to madness Continue reading
Ice and fire
A message from below Continue reading
A moving tail
Dachshund for hire Continue reading
The flint miners of Cissbury
Arrowheads? What arrowheads? Continue reading
Walkies
An unhealthy obsession? Continue reading
The Bubnoff
Units of immortality Continue reading
Ecological Hosting
Poems in the sun Continue reading
SHRIMP-date your zircon
Zircons aren’t forever Continue reading
Hilton’s highlights
For Gentlemen only Continue reading
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Tagged Buildings, Cyanobacteria, Fossils, Geology, Sandstone, Stromatolites
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Man in the Moon
Rejoicing in the heavens? Continue reading
Your face is familiar
Have we met before? Continue reading
Age
You’re as old as your cells Continue reading
The Santa test
Sniffing out the real FC Continue reading
A Christmas carol
What the Dickens have they done to the lights? Continue reading
Making sense of the Universe
But not yet. . . Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Science, Universe
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The Rime of the Ancient Astronaut
Nor any drop to drink? Continue reading
Come naked!
An invitation declined Continue reading
Quinquelocalina
Little things save a lot Continue reading
Maureen
Too much of a good thing? Continue reading
Wildlife friendly
With friends like these . . . Continue reading
Spotless!
The Sun has got no spots on Continue reading
Forever amber
Petrified sunlight! Continue reading
Grounded
The end of the Universe? Continue reading
The good old London Clay
A capital material! Continue reading
No place to hide
Clinical exposure Continue reading
The cleaner
Life is but a dream Continue reading
Simon
Don’t try this at home Continue reading
Darwin’s trouble
A geologist’s affliction Continue reading
’Swanderful
Promises fulfilled Continue reading
No sex, please
Ostracods can do it hemaphroditically Continue reading
Old iron
In fact, very old iron. . . Continue reading
Promises. . .
I’ll believe it when I see it Continue reading
James and the giant fish
Never say die. . . Continue reading
Professor Peter’s particle
A massive mystery at CERN Continue reading
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Tagged CERN, Gravity, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Mass, Physics, Science
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Santa’s problem
Recharging his batteries? Continue reading
Second violin
Playing second fiddle Continue reading
Google-earthing
Following the Arun Continue reading
Early warning
A matter of weighting Continue reading
White Christmas
But not as you might have known it Continue reading
Skin deep
Epidermal support Continue reading
Open wide
Recognition’s a funny thing Continue reading
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Tagged Dentists, Occupations, Personal, Points of view, Recognition
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On the mend
Mister Fixit Continue reading
It’s good to doubt a dogma
I think, therefore I doubt Continue reading
I’d walk a million miles
Or wait six weeks Continue reading
Crash landing?
The swans return, but. . . Continue reading
Dingle dangle scarecrow
A life in the country is not all it’s cracked up to be Continue reading
Medoc o’ the Loch
An upside and a downside of global warming Continue reading
Nathan
Rhyme alert! Continue reading
It’s a turbidite’s life
In deep water Continue reading
Frozen in time
Dorset’s coastal heritage Continue reading
The building stones of Sussex
Like Sussex people Continue reading
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Tagged Building stones, Chalk, Dinosaurs, Geology, Horsham Stone, Limestone, Rocks, Sandstone, Sussex Marble, Sussex people
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Heavy plant crossing
Disappointingly ambiguous Continue reading
Eclipsed
It’s up there, somewhere Continue reading
Clickety-click
The Bingo game of life Continue reading
The Baggeridge way
Congealed in the Weald Continue reading
Builder’s bladder
Evidence of Darwinian evolution? Continue reading
Small wonders
Little gems Continue reading
Dream poem
Or did I imagine it? Continue reading
Manger danger
Natural childbirth, anyone? Continue reading
Meteoritic SOS
An alien voice Continue reading
The Great man-made River
It’s big in Libya Continue reading
Swan song
Ulterior motive suspected Continue reading
Lite bites
A grand day out? Continue reading
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Tagged Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, SSSIs (Sites of Special Scientific Interest)
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Jack of all trades
Adequate, but cheap Continue reading
Owain’s bird
A bird in the sand is worth telling your parents about Continue reading
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Tagged Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Pterosaurs, Wight (Isle of)
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The Horsham ‘dragon’
How to trap a dragon 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
In Mary Anning’s footsteps
An ichthyosaurial tour Continue reading
The purpose of life
Unpasteurised thoughts Continue reading
Widgiemoolthalite
Would you adamite and eveite it? Continue reading