Words

By Lawrence Byatt

During a fortunate life in a spectacular country, faced with the usual complications of everyday existence and human behaviour, thought given to observations, memories, personal opinions and various out of the blue ideas finally led to the creation of this short book of verse.

Sitting quietly in a corner for an hour or two, the casual reader may find a few items of interest as has the author in similar situations over many years – often in the most unexpected places.

Covering a journey from youth to old age adds variety to the poetic stories to be found in this book perhaps best described and discovered by simply taking a little time to read it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jun 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781922565495

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Copyright © 2021 Lawrence Byatt

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ISBN: 978-1-922565-49-5 (eBook)

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Contents

1Voices

2Sunset

3Invisible

4It’s A Team Game

5Universal Without Rehearsal

6The News

7The Real News

8A Friendly Summer Rain

9Conservation Conversation

10 Just Being Green

11 The Climate Is Money

12 Food For Thought

13 Global Warning!

14 Revolting

14 Caves R Us

15 Survival

16 Humans

17 Enjoy The Show

18 Not In Our Stars

18 E-Valuation

19 Ordinary People

20 The Sting In Our Tales

20 Rat Race

21 The Common Touch

22 Planet Of The Apes

23 Our Place In Time

24 Selling Tales

25 Gene-Rational

25 Postscript

26 Music Man

27 Songs For You

27 Brainstorm

28 Horizons

28 Brief Encounter

29 Elemental

30 Memories

30 Migrants

30 Breakers

31 Memento

31 Past Present

32 The Source

33 War Bride

33 Mother

34 Feathered Friends

35 Don’t Mention The Quidditch!

36 Beatles Birthday Bash

36 The Rarest Gift

37 The Swinging Sixties

38 Tribe Vibe

39 A Christmas Song

40 Transported

40 Seasons

41 Beyond Imagination

42 Short Story

42 Aspirations

43 Proximity

44 Being There

44 The Golden Silence

45 The Art Of Life

46 Homing Inn

47 Grandad

48 Dormant View

49 Without You

50 Worsery Rhyme

50 Mirror Image

51 Sauce Of Gravity

52 Boarding School

53 Drifting Dawn To Dusk

54 End Game

55 Arrival

56 Those Were The Days

57 Sing Me Songs

58 The Last Wave

58 Battle On

58 Reflection

59 Starting Out Again

60 Australia

62 Moving On

63 Natural Reflection

64 Dive In Thriving

65 A Journey

66 Wake In Flight

66 Cave Manners

67 On The Street

68 Power Plays

68 Old News

69 Cliffs Of Moher

70 Fill The Day

70 Cemetery

71 The Bohemian

71 Scrutiny

72 I Don’t Need No More Extractions

72 Cognition Fruition

73 Today Is The Day

74 2020

75 Season’s Eatings

75 It’s Christmas!

76 A Seaside Symphony

77 Just Dreaming

78 Natural Reflections

80 Originals

82 In Plain Sight

84 It’s All Happening!

85 A Little Adversary Rhyme

86 Opinion! Dominion! Afternoon Tea!

88 The Rigged Picture

90 Outfoxed

92 Rhyme Time

93 Life Is Complicated

94 The Music Of The Light

95 Human Limitations

96 Internet Hubs Versus Visiting Pubs

97 Spinning Around

98 It’s All Geek To Me

99 Keep Moving!

100 My Dietary Flings

100 Multifarious Media

101 Christmas Again

102 Hunting And Gathering

103 Rhyming And Rhythm

104 AttenShun!

105 Telephony

106 Advertising

107 Vote Know!

108 The Missing Ink

110 Life’s Balancing Acts

112 Mysteries In Our Shared Histories

114 Lionized

116 Going, Going, Gone!

116 Enough From Me!

117 The Road Ahead

118 Conclusions

119 Illusion Reigns

120 SuperPerson

121 Poetic License

122 Consider This

124 A Sometimes Song

125 Time Passes

126 Browsing

Voices

From the past to the present

From shadows and light

From imagination

From stars in the night

Voices

From the flowers of language

From rhythms and rhymes

From beyond comprehension

From my journey through time

Voices

From dreams and illusions

From people I knew

From carefully rehearsed

From out of the blue

Voices

Sunset

Shining beyond the summit of this hill

The clearest view that I may ever see

Silence invites the evening to enjoy

The final moments of a setting sun.

Still time to glance back at the trodden path

The long and winding journey to this crest

Before the light surrenders to its fate

And darkness fulfils its eternal rule.

Morning began more fiercely than I knew

Sunrise a time when savagery ruled

Before the early hours of a new dawn

Delivered hope of brighter friendly skies.

The vibrant youth of life approached the day

Sure of itself in welcome morning light

The lessons of the hours still to learn

Among the clouds, the thunder and the rain.

Some storms came unexpected much too soon

To linger or diminish as inclined

Learned to be wary of the road ahead

The twists and turns as I kept stumbling on.

At times the heavens opened to release

Soft sunlight to illuminate the way

But caution often settled for the shade

Unmoved by chances reaching out to me.

Now day