The 6 o'clock News - Tom Leonard

this is thi

six a clock

news thi

man said n

thi reason

a talk wia

BBC accent

iz coz yi

widny wahnt

mi ti talk

aboot thi

trooth wia

voice lik

wanna yoo

scruff. if

a toktaboot

thi trooth

lik wanna yoo

scruff yi

widny thingk

it wuz troo.

jist wanna yoo

scruff tokn.

thirza right

way ti spell

ana right way

to tok it. this

is me tokn yir

right way a

spellin. this

is ma trooth.

yooz doant no

thi trooth

yirsellz cawz

yi canny talk

right. this is

the six a clock

nyooz. belt up.

- I wiz hinking aboot this alot like. I hink Leonard is trying tae say that everywan shud speak posh n that... He says if newsreaders spoke in a more common accent people would not believe the news anymore. The Glasgow-born poet is defending his roots by saying the truth is the truth regardless of how it is spoken or who it is told by.

Auguries Of Innocence - William Blake

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.

- This is an excerpt which I think holds its own as a poem. Look at the world as if it was brand new again! As we grow into adults, we become so used to the world we forget to be amazed by something as seemingly simple as a flower, even though we don't understand what makes that flower grow. It is the same Source and Energy which keeps our hearts beating and wakes us into the world each day. The sand, the flowers are a tiny spark of the divine mystery...and so are we.