Tag: The Bard of Pynn's Brook

THE CHEAP SEAT CATASTROPHE

THE CHEAP SEAT CATASTROPHE Cruise lines, bus lines, train lines AIRLINES Move us round like canned sardines. They sit us down in tiny seats With bodies bound, cheek to cheek To share the air tween...

THE BARD’S THOUGHTS ON COVID-19

THE REAPER HEWS (The Pale Horse) Scourges stalk the human race, Unheralded, unseen, The Reaper hews - no coup de grace, Messy and obscene. The virus grows and many dread, Few ICU nor cure, And stealthily,...

THE BARD ON AVARICE AND COD FISH

CODFISH When Cabot crossed the raging Main, Cod in commons sight were plain. But avarice - human greed Caught King Cod to paltry breed And Fish for food was sought in vain. They said the Cod...

THE BARD ASKS: WHO SETS THE RULES?

PRESELECTION Could it be a new direction, Or in effect a preelection? Would we see a change in graft - Taxpayers’ still to get the shaft? Who sets rules for rules to craft?    Who preselects...

THE BARD ON THE “NO POINT PLAN”

DON’T BREATHE (No Point Plan) Empty schools, keep them open, Ferry service, keep them hoping. Muskrat Falls, no power aspire, And can’t allow a full Inquire. Smile and grin and don’t perspire. Keep on spending borrowed cash, On payroll, pensions, programs...

THE LOOTERY CABAL?

THE LOOTERY CABAL?  (Big Job Draw*) Victims will need to hear and see the names appear - Of racketeers - of those who planned to profiteer,  Dreamt of public debt, and commandeered...

THE BARD AND THE RISKS OF BUILDING ON CLAY

THE WISE MAN AND THE FOOLISH MAN* The wise man built upon a rock, the foolish built on sand.  The bible's lesson:  on sand, the structure will not stand.* Clay, it's...