Ochre

OCHRE

Ochre is the colour of Australia,

The soil and the red, red heart.

It's the colour of its heat in the summer

And the colour of its native art.

It features in body-painting,

And in works of world renown.

It's that wonderful sun-soaked,

Rusty, golden, deeply satisfying brown.

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The starting words are from 'Love You Too' by the Beatles.


INEXORABILITY!

Each day just goes so fast....
I turn around, it's past.
And isn't it a great disaster
That old age makes it go much faster!
Xmas now with Easter merges,
Waves of Time roll with great surges!
Birthdays pile up ceaselessly!
Branches grow on the Family Tree.
Of course the Beatles were quite young
When this original song was sung!
Like me, they couldn't imagine, clearly,
That time would gallop monthly, yearly!
It was just a useful phrase
To register the passing days.
Now they're all old , it seems to me,
They sing it in a minor key!
They realise that finite Time
Can't be contained in a simple rhyme!
'Stop! Stop!' we cry, 'Slow down! Slow down!
In minutes, hours and days we'll drown!'
Inexorable! That's the word
That makes we humans feel absurd.
Helplessly we're swept along
To where all used-up things belong.
The terrible, terrible speed increases
Until...................
It ceases.
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