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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
The price of sex appeal
Natural selection is tough Continue reading
Obsession
I can give it up at any time Continue reading
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Tagged Ammonites, Belemnites, Damsel flies, Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Gryphaea dilatata, Pebbles
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GBH
A Sussex fossil finder Continue reading
Swan talk
Perpetual motion Continue reading
Let us from this table rise
But not as quickly as we used to. . . Continue reading
Nostalgia
A good wallow Continue reading
The Infrastructure Services Manager
A high-powered job? Continue reading
Sunday lunch
Eaten alive Continue reading
Retail therapy
A learning experience Continue reading
Immortal, invisible
A virus speaks… Continue reading
The interstices of life
They are the nooks and crannies of life: you have to look for them, but they’re there . . . Continue reading
Shark ark
How to survive Continue reading
Vest is best
Something close to my heart… Continue reading
Round and round
All motion is relative Continue reading
Root two
Plato didn’t like it Continue reading
The ingenious petrologist
A misunderstood breed? Continue reading
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Definitely not vanity publishing! Continue reading
Recycling
How ‘green’ can you get? Continue reading
Hay fever
The bees’ knees Continue reading
Crystal Alice
Nothing new under the sun? Continue reading
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Tagged Bragg's Law, Christopher Robin and Alice, Crystal Palace, Crystal structure, Geology, Rocks
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Seeds of destruction
A solution to all your gardening problems Continue reading
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Tagged Decking, Gardening, Nature, Pests, Pigeons, Slugs, Snails, Tichmarsh (Alan)
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Carithmetic
An antidote to road rage? Continue reading
There’s always one
One face of Mr Sodd’s Law Continue reading
Duetting
A tip for two Continue reading
Streptomycin
An antibiotic hero Continue reading
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Tagged Antibiotics, Bacteria, Illnesses, Peritonitis, Personal, Streptomycin
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The highway toad
The dangers of rushing into sex Continue reading
All lit up
A timely reminder to fairy-lighters Continue reading
Poor Santa
He’s not well, according to the signs Continue reading
Did I turn the oven off?
A solution to the traveller’s curse Continue reading
No time like the present
Now, then… Continue reading
To those left behind
It’s tough when the race goes to the swift Continue reading
Dust to dust
The answer to a persistent problem Continue reading
Family tree
Diminishing returns Continue reading
A bronze Head
Pirie’s Place Continue reading
Sorry!
I’ve cracked it! Continue reading
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Tagged Amateurs, Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Hammer (geological), Wight (Isle of)
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A duck, unstuck
Enjoy your meal Continue reading
Opabinia
A tribute to an ancient beauty Continue reading
What if?
Are the odds stacked against you? Continue reading
Damsel in distress
The Big Question Continue reading
The sixth commandment
Thou shalt not kill what? Continue reading
Plate tectonics
To Hell and back Continue reading
Plate tectonics – an alternative hypothesis
A paradigm shift? Continue reading
Pikaia
Greetings to an ancestor Continue reading
The fossil record
Have you heard it? Continue reading
Tethys
An early case of downsizing Continue reading
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Tagged Cyprus, Geology, Gondwana, Laurasia, Moho (Mohorovicic Discontinuity), Plate tectonics, Tethys ocean, Tibet
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A spider, an ant and a fly
Three sticky ends Continue reading
Come dancing
Quicks, slows, heels and toes Continue reading
Spacetime
Why mathematicians are grateful to Einstein Continue reading
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Tagged Einstein (Albert), Equations, Gravity, Mass, Newton (Isaac), Physics, Spacetime
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Coriolis
Why winds and rockets seem to change direction Continue reading
Prime cut
The price of lamb Continue reading
Indecent exposure
A cost-benefit situation Continue reading
Selsey Bill
The Midas touch Continue reading
Rainbow’s end
Don’t tell Noah… Continue reading
Space race
The price of chicken Continue reading
Verdi’s Requiem
It’s the way that you do it! Continue reading
National anthem
Who’s not singing? Continue reading
Model makers
Just a thought… Continue reading
In the kitchen
If you can’t stand the heat. . . Continue reading
MRSA
Superbugs! Continue reading
Bugs
A health education poem Continue reading
In triplicate
A cautionary tale for all hay fever sufferers Continue reading
A magnetic personality
Marketing strategists, take note Continue reading
Science and religion
It’s a mystery Continue reading
Beeing in Horsham
A real buzz Continue reading
The pollster
Watch how they tick you off Continue reading
Santamania
A Christmas puzzle Continue reading
What goes up…
Look out! Continue reading
The weathercock
A fowl lament Continue reading
Wait for it…
How many shopping days? Continue reading
The point is…
Something, somewhere, is being ignored Continue reading
A parallel existence
The torment of being a straight line 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
Genesis
Which came first? And does it matter? Continue reading
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Tagged Chicken, Chicken and egg, Cooking, Eggs, Nature, Points of view, Signs
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The electron
An identity crisis revealed Continue reading
Trumpet voluntary
What’s in a name? Continue reading
Iggy
A dumbed-down Iguanodon Continue reading
Lilies
Should they get a life? Continue reading
Reflections
A new you? Continue reading
Weather or not
A recipe for meteorological chaos? Continue reading
Listen to the band
How to enjoy an orchestral concert Continue reading
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Tagged Brass, Music, Musical instruments, Orchestras, Percussion, Strings, Woodwind
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The lift
This lift is different from all the others! Continue reading
Exceptions
Not all things are bright and beautiful Continue reading
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Tagged AIDS, Ants, Aphids, Athlete's foot, Bed-bugs, Bluebottles, BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), Bulldogs, Cancer, Canker, CJD (Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease), Club root, Crabs, Dachshunds, Diseases, Fleas, Flies, Foot-and-mouth disease, Gallstones, Gnats, Hymns, Jellyfish, Lampreys, Leeches, Lice, Locusts, ME (myalgic encephalopathy), Mealy bug, Meningitis, Mice, Moles, MS (multiple sclerosis), Nature, Nits, Oil-seed rape, Pekingese, Pests, Pigeons, Rats, Ringworm, Slugs, Spiders, Squirrels, Tonsils, Tuberculosis, Woodlice
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Edges
Some questions are better not asked Continue reading
The hunter’s cry
Another cautionary tale Continue reading
Motivation
A second Moses Continue reading
In theory
A Theory of Everything isn’t everything… Continue reading
The mechanics of time
Time marches on – but what keeps it going? Continue reading
Ageology
How not to lie about your age Continue reading
Mathematics
On shaky ground? Continue reading
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Tagged Asymptotes, Axioms, Calculus, Conic sections, Exponentials, Fibonacci series, Fractals, Golden number, Infinity, Logarithms, Mathematics, Quadratics, Square roots, Statistics, Theorems
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Why?
A good question Continue reading
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Tagged Ammonites, Fossil collecting, Fossils, Geology, Points of view
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Factorials
What’s so funny? Continue reading
Hypotenuse
A precarious existence Continue reading
Pi
It’s as long as you like Continue reading
g
A matter of some gravity Continue reading
Spring into action
Try this at home Continue reading