Sod is blue

All religion was meaningless to her.
She had never heard  of God, she shared
She spoke Dutch and  thought the priest said Sod
Swearing  is as common as iPads

So Sod help us with Brexit or make jokes
Does   this Sod enjoy a little smoke?
Dear Sod, the very mountains seem asleep
BTW I think you are a creep

Later he had changed his  name to Sid
And he always shared his sacred blood
He had so much it fed the whole wide world
Believe me now,   compassion’s not absurd.

Do not  do  to  others what harms you
Sid  lives in   your soul and he gets blue

And he had Jesus in his bag.

There were three of us on this motorbike,
Father Dan with me,
And he had Jesus in his bag.
That makes the total three.

Transubstantiation, oh my Lord
I looked  at his  black bag.
Is Jesus  inside there, I thought?
Should it have a tag?

It’s a secret  never told
Father Dan gave it me to hold.
So I had Jesus in my lap,
No wonder now I feel a gap.

We zoomed off up an unmade road
As fast as Dan could go.
I felt bewildered and bemused,
I loved my Daddy so.

Father Dan took back his bag,
And went inside our house.
I got my marbles out to roll,
I ate a chocolate mouse.

So Three of had taken a ride
And after that my Dad had died.
Father Dan said Mass  today
With holy Jesus,so I cried.

Odd

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Digital art by Katherine

My sister liked solving 40 quadratic equations every morning when she was 12  but she had no idea why they existed and why children should learn them.
That seems odd to me.

Then we have odd numbers but no normal number, just even ones

Why are odd numbers called odd?

If we take away all whol numbers from the set of all real numbers there are still more numbers left behind than the number we removed.Infinity has sizes!

The world cannot ever be the same

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A world in  which genocide has occurred can never be he same world.And it is not only the victims who suffer.It remains in our shared minds.
As with a nuclear bomb being used, the world is  irretrievably changed
Now our mouths gape with horror and all that we have seen  or known
But I didn’t like to mention it

The Holocaust, a genocide and more

Can something be too soon a metaphor
The Holocaust, a genocide no more
A word for something evil  done by man
A little worse than burning the best pan

Do metaphors make people do bad deeds
When we need  new ways and  stunning schemes
How about  we torch the Union Jack
And throw it  at a Constable hay stack

That’s pathetic, we need nuclear bombs
Stored inside the wombs of  virgin nuns
When birth arrives a triumph and a roar
The London Hospital shall be no more

No London,no New York,no Leningrad
Just a beetle  looking quietly sad

From CBBC for Holocaust Memorial Day

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Genocide

What is genocide?

Genocide is when a group of people are targeted to be killed because of who they are, such as their race or their religion.

Genocide does not just take place on its own. It’s a steady process, which can begin if discrimination, racism and hatred are not checked.

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we are reminded of what can happen when prejudice and persecution are left unchallenged.

Why is Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January?

The reason it is held on 27 January is because this was the day in 1945 that the soldiers fighting against the Germans took over the largest Nazi concentration camp called Auschwitz-Birkenau and freed the prisone