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CULTURAL DIVERSITY IS WORTH
RECOGNITION
(written for UK City of Culture Award 2025)

and . . . . THE GIANT PATCHWORK OF THIS WORLD

Are you wondering about your life ahead?  See this poem:  Called to be Disciples.  In my own case, I knew from my first day at school that I wanted to be a teacher, and, despite being told at 11 that, failing the 11 plus, I could put that idea out of my head (yes I was) - I taught for 30 years very happily.  My work as a poet came when the children of my local school asked me to write poems for them.  I was retired then and I've written approximately one and a half thousand poems in my retirement.  So, listen for that call and follow it, I say.  Don't be put off by those who tell you that you can't do what work God wants you  to do!  Josie   
 

Advancing the Oval Ball
Advent - A Season of Waiting
Affairs of the Heart
All in the Name of Poetry
And When Autumn Returns
Big Bad Maggie
Body Image
Bride Named Spring (The)
By Heart
By Tube      
Called to be Disciples
Carve Your Name in Kindness
Change - A Simile Poem
Change Starts With Me 
Choice is Always Yours (The)
Clock of Life (The)
Consider the Lilies
Cultural Diversity is Worth 
      Recognition
Daredevil Dexterity
Date With Death (A) 
Day of the Exam (The)
Death Sentence (The)
Don't Give Up 
Don't Let Our World Die
Don't Shed a Tear
Eye Speak 
Faith, Hope and Love
Family of Man (The)
Far From Our Coral Home
Flower of the Eternal Sleep
Flutter of Time (A)
Freedom 
Friend is for Life (A)
Friends Never Part 
From Nursery Rhymes to Psalms
Giant Patchwork of This World (The)
Golf Crazy
Heroes and Heroines
Homelessness
Hope
Hope - Acrostic Poem
I Am . . . 
I Am the Window on Your World
I Have a Dream -
     (Martin Luther King)
I Stood Beside You
If You Could Only Change One Thing
I'll Walk Along This Beach Again
I'm Not a Puppet on Your Strings
I'm Not Much Good at Cheating
Importance of Sleep (The)
Importance of Stones (The)
Infinite Wisdom

It's Good to be Different
It's in Your Court
It's June
It's SO Smart to say 'No'  
It's Your Choice
Joy of Snowboarding (The) 
King of My Garden
King of the Roost
Lamentation on Life's Shortness
Let There Be Light
Let Magic Happen
Let's Celebrate Diversity
Let's Make a Noise About Bullying
Loneliness
Look at Our World
Man's Inhumanity to Man
Master of Display
Mighty Monster (The)
Mighty River (The)
Mirror's Clear and Truthful (The)
Motivation Matters
My Dream
Nature's Gift of Water
New Dawn
Night and Day - A Metaphor Poem
North Wind (The)
Ode to the Bluebells
Oh Wicked Wind
On Doing Your Best 
On the Ball 
On the Sea of Life
Oxygen
Parent Power
People Against Plastic 
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Poetry in Motion 
Poet's Lament (The)
Poet's Pantry (The)
Poet's Pantry (The) - - 2
Pompous Percy
Pour It Into a Poem, Dear
Queen of the Night 
Rain
Really Posh New Loos
Riding the Rough Rollers
Riddeling Siddeling 
Rhythm Rhythm Rhythm
Searching for the . . . . . . . 
Season of Fruitfulness
Seeds of Doubt 
Send Me a Dream
She     
Slavery              

Slow Train to Mediocrity (The) 
Small Voices 
So Silently They Fall
Softly and other adverb poems
Someone Smiled at Me 
Son of Man
Sonnet for Sons & Daughters
Sound of the City (The)
Stars 
Stones
Story of Saint Patrick (The)
Stream of Life (The)
Sundown
Swat the Lot
Sweet Dancer
Sweet is the Freshness of the Breeze
Symphony of Summer 
Teenage Bedroom (The) 
Thank You for This Moment in Time
Those Distant Hills
Through the Narrow Gate
Time
Time to Let the Summer Go 
Tips for Tennis
Tomorrow's Success
Tomorrow's World  
Tread Carefully
True Beauty 
Truth
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Two Worlds
Upon Man's Warring Tide
Veil (The)
Vision
Wear a Tie, Young Man 
We'll Not Come on Your Tiger Hunt
We're British and We Know It
What Are You Listening To?
What is a Poet?
When God Created Adam 
     and:  God Created Woman Next
When the Going Gets Tough
Where Freedom Reigns
Where's Your Smile?
Wind - A Fickle Force (Science Poem)
Winter White Princes
With Vicious Attack 
Woman, Why Weepest Thou?
Words in a Poem
You Adults of Tomorrow 
You're Somebody Special 
Your Postcode Reveals the Truth