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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
Hostile coexistence
A stone-age argument Continue reading
World-wide Wallace
A dog’s life Continue reading
Bicycling Bertie
How not to make a better mousetrap Continue reading
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Venus
A fearsome beauty Continue reading
What’s new?
Granddad’s axe, the Cutty Sark and me Continue reading
No way
Here yesterday, gone today Continue reading
Sealed for life
A casualty of progress Continue reading
The nick of time
Blink, and you’ve missed it Continue reading
The Pompeii worm
Some like it hot Continue reading
Granddad?
I’ve been given a title Continue reading
Amelia
What’s in a name? Continue reading
Rory’s Chalk
A finely divided lithography Continue reading
Whatever next?
I’m wondering, too… Continue reading
On the bus down to Brighton
An eventful journey 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
Flight-ready
One small step for. . . Continue reading
Three kings
Wrong place, wrong time? Continue reading
Old Father Thames and the pebble counters
Clast lithological analysis Continue reading
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Averted vision
Look away now! Continue reading
Phoebe fly-by
A close encounter Continue reading
Free range eggs
Something for nothing? Continue reading
Memory stick
I need a socket Continue reading
Water works
How to save the Universe Continue reading
Hello, what are you doing?
A very good question Continue reading
Air of authority
It must be right, because… Continue reading
On the end of the world being nigh
Scientists become prophets Continue reading
Bog standard
Perforated nostalgia Continue reading
The Second Law and me
Down with entropy! Continue reading
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The queue
A waiting game Continue reading
Triarthrus
Symbiotic boredom Continue reading
The Sun and Hertzsprung-Russell
Some things are even bigger and brighter Continue reading
Spring song
Life must go on… Continue reading
Sussex marble
A local speciality Continue reading
Seismic saviour
How to find oil and gas – possibly Continue reading
Swan talk 2
Silvered, but safe Continue reading
Astronomers
Facing both ways? Continue reading
I give up
I’m not the man I was Continue reading
The Neanderthal way
Exposed in Norfolk Continue reading
High hopes
Heavenly apirations Continue reading
Firm foundations
Advice to building designers Continue reading
A rainy day in Southerham Grey
Fossilin’ in the rain Continue reading
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The fossil digger’s song
A ‘coprolite industry’ anthem Continue reading
Buzz off
If you were called Calliphoria vomitoria, you’d resent it, too Continue reading
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Dawn tyrant
Quills and thrills Continue reading
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A lousy trick
Quantum woodlice Continue reading
Chelsea gold
A great British tradition Continue reading
Tony
A magical exposure Continue reading
Perhaps
They seek him here, they seek him there… Continue reading
I wonder
A celestial put-down Continue reading
Gordon’s goring
Why pick on me? Continue reading
The sincerest form of flattery
Screwed up Continue reading
Home and colonial
A modular lifestyle Continue reading
The skin that I’m in
It’s all mine! Continue reading
The sky at night
In search of a star Continue reading
Ignorance is bliss
Christopher Robin to the rescue Continue reading
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A Horsham Stone roof
A stoney dome Continue reading
A sundial’s lament
An introspective anachronism Continue reading
Fault lines
Pride comes before a fall Continue reading
I once saw Einstein on a train
Relatively easy? Continue reading
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Earth to Mars. . .
Facing up to the Red Planet Continue reading
Rest in Peacehavem
Ammonitic foresight Continue reading
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Sign of the times
Watch your language! Continue reading
Orchestral tips
A young person’s guide to the instruments Continue reading
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Tagged Brass, Music, Musical instruments, Orchestras, Percussion, Strings, Woodwind
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Turkey talk
It’s that time of year… Continue reading
Goodbye, and thanks for all the bread
A lament for lost loaves Continue reading
Angel voices
A wingèd whinge Continue reading
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do
Methane in the air… Continue reading
Conkering heroes
The playground’s not the same, these days Continue reading
Sexual dimorphism
It can be fun! Continue reading
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Out of season
Get your Christmas cards in August! Continue reading
If you can’t stand the heat…
Why not leave the cooking to me? Continue reading
On the trail of a snail
What drove it up the wall? Continue reading
Brain strain
Its best isn’t good enough Continue reading
Oolite
Say it right Continue reading
Balls
Grievous bodily harm Continue reading
Feet first
Sole talk Continue reading
The hole
Paradise lost Continue reading
Depression
A shipping forecast Continue reading
Pollution
Thoughts of a blue-green bacterium Continue reading
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Ladies and gentlemen
Sexual discrimination Continue reading
Definitions
If they’re no good, or absent, they tell you something worth knowing Continue reading
Martian methane
Where could it have come from? Continue reading
Alarmed!
Behind the notice on the door Continue reading
No news is good news
Of dogs and men Continue reading
Plumbing the depths
Tweaking and leaking Continue reading
Writer’s block
Winter blues Continue reading
The fall
Going down… Continue reading
The Shelley pigeon
On top of the world Continue reading