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There Was A Young Lady Called Mariah

There was a young lady called Mariah
Who had a burning desire
To visit the sun,
So there she did run
And was consumed by a raging fire!

There Was A Young Lady Called Pam

There was a young lady called Pam
Who liked to generate lots of spam.
When the cyber cops came to take her away
She said, “I rue this day
And in future will stick to ham …!”

Winter

The death of the year
Is near.
The last day of November
Is icey cold,
I wonder, what will December
Hold?

This freezing wind
Does rescind
Summer’s delights
As winter Makes toys
Of all our joys

A Very Short Biography of Benjamin Disraeli

One of Britain’s most colourful prime ministers and an author to boot. Kevin

Interesting Literature

The interesting life of a Prime Minister – and novelist

For Jane Ridley, one of Benjamin Disraeli’s most acclaimed biographers, Disraeli is never boring. With that in mind, in this post we offer a short biography of Benjamin Disraeli that aims to condense some of the most interesting aspects of his colourful life into one very brief article. What made the life of Benjamin Disraeli – politician,...

Digital Heroin for Children

Research claims that children spend upto 5 hours a day glued to their smart phones, people’s attention spans are shrinking as a consequence of over exposure to technology and those aged under 18-years-of-age should use technology for no more than 2 hours a day. This is all worrying stuff, however if one digs beneath what some might consider as the hysterical headline, “Digital Heroin for Children”, it becomes obvious that not all researchers agree with this gloomy picture. Others argue that g...

A Library in A Taxi ?

Notes from An Alien

“Fairly small, up on a pole, books inside, and saying, ‘Take A Book – Leave A Book’…”—that’s a quote from a post I did about Little Free Libraries.

Image Courtesy of Adem KAYA ~ http://www.freeimages.com/photographer/ademkaya-48217

While they can be almost anywhere, I haven’t yet heard of one in a taxi…

And, from an older post called All About Libraries, there’s this word history for “Library”:

place for books, late 14c., from Anglo-French librarie, Old French librairie...

There Was A Young Lady Called Pearl

There was a young lady called pearl
Who’s heart was all in a whirl,
Over a man she met.
I do forget
Whether she did dance and twirl …!

K Morris reading 3 of his poems

Me reading 3 poems, taken from my collection ‘Refractions’.

A poet’s best friend

A couple of photographs of my four-legged friend Trigger.

K Morris reading a selection of his poems

Me reading a selection of my poetry, all of which can be found in my book ‘Refractions’, available in the Amazon Kindle Store.