on tenterhooks: summer in central Portugal 2025
based on a true story as we watched wildfires creep closer around the mountain and viewed the bloody sun through the ubiquitous veil of smoke that filled both the sky and our lungs…
matters of concern (aka trust the science?)
Matters of conCERN (aka Trust the Science?) Did the Great Collider really openA Stargate to another dimension?Will researchers dine off stories‘Til they receive their pension?Was the unknown entity merelyHaving an inter-dimensional laughWhen it joined them at their tableThen made off with a scarf? Are ‘chemtrails’ real (as some insist?)Are air-borne nano-particles an issueIf they float-down […]
thinking happy thoughts
“Thinking happy thoughts” … Hence a reflective ‘work-in-progress’ inspired by my previous studies and current investigations into AI.. The Price of Innovation Kondratieff waved at me and said “The world will change before you go to bed. Before you sleep there will be many tears And any remnant hope there is will Come liberally spiced […]
‘reality’ (they say…)
Sitting in the shade in contemplation… this is what happens (work in progress first drafted 07/06/2025 16:30hr Lisbon time) ‘Reality’ (They Say…) They say that none of ‘it’ is realThey say that ‘it’ doesn’t existWe’re living in a simulation(Though opinion on this is mixed) They say we experience dualityCreated from ones-and-zerosAnd we should simply bow […]
end of april (2025)
a wet and gloomy day today…. 30/04/1025 End of April Muted, miserable, pale-pewter greyBarely one hundred metres awayBeyond the station but encroachingA monstrous curtain of mist descendsObscuring the fields like a Stephen King novella Even Spring’s vivacious verdure hangs its headHeavy with the weight of incessant rainAnd only one avian voice is still raised in […]
enlightenment
Quickly drafted, it might yet ‘evolve’ if I become more switched-on… a response to lights going out all over Portugal when the system got so easily overloaded in Spain (April 2025)!! Enlightenment Across the PeninsulaDarkness descendedAll were disempoweredAnd life was upended Sticky jams on the roadsStopping trains, grounding planesShops could not take cardsAnd so chaos […]
heavens above
HEAVENS ABOVE yet another work-in-progress as of 12 April 2025!… Rather unashamedly twee perhaps! But nonetheless… could this positively cloud your judgement or prompt you to think about just what is in store? 🙂 What if… (a.k.a. The Database) Heaven is a Database of untold capacityNo marble halls, no angelic choirBut the Cloud on which […]
some passing thoughts on death
(initially written as a brief response to the suggestion that ‘people aren’t afraid of death but afraid of the uncertainty of what comes after death’:) even ‘Death’ can become a matter of ‘fight or flight’. But if there is fear then I think that it is not so much the fear of what may be […]
britannia: britons ever shall be slaves
written during the period of UK elections in the wake of ‘brexit’ and the pandemic management debacle — which included the wilful killing of thousands of elderly people, who were drugged to death so that they could be added to the largely fictitious ‘covid’ toll in order to boost the narrative that corrupt politicians and […]
big pharma: fleecing the sheep
just prior to coming across the video production Vaxxed III from Children’s Health Defense (a heartrending film that everyone should watch) I had jotted down a short verse… as follows: Big Pharma ‘Big Pharma’ they call themThough they plough not a fieldAnd they care not a jotFor how much crops yieldThey keep not a chickenNor […]