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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, to life, reallyCopyright:
Gordon Judge, 1999 to present. Email geoverse@hotmail.co.uk if you'd like to use a poem from the collections.
Author Archives: GJ
A feminine fan
But this one won’t get you all a-flutter . . . Continue reading
Gibbs Dentifrice
Gone, but not forgotten Continue reading
It’s Christmas in Horsham
But not very Christmassy for some Continue reading
Trolleyhogs
Found in supermarkets . . . Continue reading
The milkman’s horse
Christmas nostalgia in a pint bottle (and they are still pints!). I remember the milkman’s horse. It would stop outside our gate While the milkman put its nosebag on And I wondered what it ate. My Dad would thank the … Continue reading
Solar voices
Taken for granted, this is the only way they can complain Continue reading
Homo granddadus
A really important outcome of evolution Continue reading
Hell’s Kitchen
If you’re an oil shale, you need to have been there. Continue reading
How St. George lost his Land
Down, but not out Continue reading
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Tagged Earthquakes, Geology, Pangaea, Plate tectonics, St. George's Land
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The way of a worm
A word for a worm . . . Continue reading
Isaac Newton
Thanks, Sir! Continue reading
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Tagged Gravity, Light, Mathematics, Newton (Isaac), Personal, Spacetime
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Going up to London
And back down again . . . Continue reading
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Tagged Big Ben, Dinosaurs, London, Millennium Bridge, Rhymes for children, Tate Modern, Thames, Travel
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Legs
But not the usual sort . . Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Grannies, Inventions, Legs, Rhymes for children
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Ordinary Time
Anything but! Continue reading
Paradigm lost
You can stretch an interpretation of the evidence just so far . . . Continue reading
Bracklesham Bay
Or David Bone’s Bay? Continue reading
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Tagged Bracklesham Bay, Fossils, Geologists, Geology, Geology fieldwork, Limericks
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The hanging basket
Help is at hand Continue reading
Things
Just phases we go through Continue reading
Jessibels
Ouch! Continue reading
On the bowling greens of Worthing
White-clad in Worthing Continue reading
Thrasonical
I’m not bragging . . . Continue reading
Function denial
Sign design Continue reading
Green hills
In need of security measures Continue reading
Paludina
Beware of imitations Continue reading
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Tagged Building stones, Fossils, Geology, Paludina, Sussex Marble
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False pretences
Intelligent’s? Continue reading
New Titanomyrmaland
A Queen’s royal progress Continue reading
White Wight?
A bleached Isle? Continue reading
April showers
Last September, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft observed liquid falling on the equatorial deserts of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan – this was equivalent to early April in Titan’s year. (The cloud formation from which it’s falling is the bright arrow-shaped area on … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Planets, Solar system, Titan (moon of saturn)
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Un-invited guests
Lost in the post? Continue reading
Welcome to GeoVerse!
This is a collection of original poems which began with some about geology, which is why it’s called Geoverse; but there are now poems on all sorts of things – life, the universe, and (almost) everything. Click ‘About the author’ … Continue reading
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Jessica Judge
Sunday’s child Continue reading
Street View
Something’s missing. . . Continue reading
Glendonite
A technique for dedicated geologists only Continue reading
Blog slog
But it was worth it Continue reading
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Easy breezy Continue reading
Old friends
A reunion and an admission Continue reading
Please rinse and return your milkman
I bottled out. . . Continue reading
A lasting impression
A canine coincidence Continue reading
Causes
It’s good to know what you don’t know Continue reading
Twinkle, twinkle, little sar
Not just like a diamond… Continue reading
A girl’s best friend?
And more. . . Continue reading
Much ado about nothing
A vacuous poem Continue reading
Whodunit?
The case of the ex-Period Continue reading
Travellers’ rest
A dream poem Continue reading
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Tagged Horsham, Hotels, Shelley (Percy Bysshe), Travel
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Stratford-upon-Bytham
What’s in a name? Continue reading
Growing organic
Why pick on me? Continue reading
The leek
Vegetable delight! Continue reading