Over-rated Sports

There’s far too much publicity for certain types of sport,

With some of them receiving more attention than they ought.

Their exploits feature constantly in papers and TV,

With matches broadcast everywhere for all the world to see.

Their players earn tremendous sums, enjoy a life of fame,

And know that there’ll be millions watching every single game.

An alien might think they were the most important thing

Within this world, as everywhere their names and praises ring

In endless column inches, on TV and internet,

As they receive more coverage than big events now get.

Other sports are treated as if they did not exist,

With many women’s sports appearing high up on the list.

Their players are not major stars, and usually they’re ignored,

With nothing in the sporting press of all the goals they’ve scored.

They don’t earn vast amounts of cash, and many players work

As cash received for playing’s often seen as just a perk.

Perhaps it’s time for certain sports to fade off every screen,

And lose their current status on the international scene,

For sports are unimportant when it comes to world affairs,

And all the vast attention showered on them should not be theirs.

Fake News

It’s hard to tell if news is true, or whether it is simply fake,

Especially at the moment when the story first begins to break;

Some things may sound quite plausible if background facts aren’t known,

And others from small acorn facts to mighty oaks have grown;

Papers often state as fact what might more nearly be

Described as propaganda, from which stories should be free.

And many just accept as true whatever they are told,

With journalists a different breed from days when they were bold

And chased stories for themselves, and checked at every stage

That everything was really true, before put on the page.

Today that simply isn’t done by every source of news,

With much reported simply being a firm’s or person’s views.

So one needs to be careful and think each story through,

Before deciding if it’s fake, or if it’s really true.

EU Migrants Should Stay

The EU migrants – let them stay!

Why should they be sent away?

They’re workers and will never cause

Any civil strife or wars.

Just agree that no-one can

Get around a total ban

On coming here with just the aim

Of putting in a welfare claim.

As workers they contribute much

And their lives and culture’s such

That they will quickly integrate,

Becoming loyal to their new state.

And think of all the Brits in Spain,

Who recently have made it plain

They want to stay just where they are –

The climate’s better there by far!

Forecast of Snow

Snow, they say, is on the way,

And should arrive by Saturday;

Not just flurries, which will go

Before they have a chance to show,

But larger falls, which may well lie

While several freezing days pass by.

But we will need to wait and see

What reality will be,

For often things don’t go to plan,

As set out by the weatherman.

Scaremongering

There are people everywhere who can’t resist the chance

To talk about impending doom a great deal in advance;

There may be little evidence that it will come to pass,

Their loudly stated arguments being nothing but a farce.

But rumours of disaster often quickly gain long legs,

Even if their basis rests on nothing more than pegs;

And so they grow and very quickly  turn to actual facts,

With people adding details which they feel the story lacks,

Often causing panic for the people who don’t know

‘Twas nothing but scaremongers who had made the story grow.

Double Standards

Donald Trump is here to stay,

And certainly won’t go away

Until his current term is up,

So with him all will have to sup

If living in a world that’s real

And with the US want to deal.

Many countries now are lead

By leaders some would like seen dead;

But though they might be hated much,

They’re leaders, recognised as such.

It’s true that most of them are small,

And count for little, if at all;

The US on the other hand

Is a large and powerful land;

But what he’s done so far is just

What many others thought they must,

Because they could; and no-one dared

Within those states, to show they cared.

It’s fairly easy to detect

The reason many now expect

America will never be

Like other nations all can see.

The demos in the US show

What many there have come to know

And which cannot be easily missed

That double standards there exist.

The Future

It’s really difficult to know

Which way all the world will go.

Things are changing very fast,

The status quo will hardly last

For more than just a few years hence,

And change will likely be immense.

Downtowns, economically,

Are something that we well may see;

New wars may quite soon appear,

Disasters may bring massive fear.

Governments may fall or rise,

Lands may loosen ancient ties;

Whatever some might now proclaim

The world will not just stay the same.