Pete's Tomorrow

Tomorrow.......
Super Nova
String
Evolution
Revolution
A Backward Glance
NoTurningBack
Lost Leader
Who Cares?
Weather Station
Autumn Equinox
Sculpture
Druim Dubh
Rock Shelter
Eathorne Menhir
Hot Air Over Oxleas
Library
Forth Bridge
Bus
Bomber Command
Vulcan
Peenemunde
26.1.45
Dan Air
The Kent And East Sussex Railway
Canals
Recycled
Valediction troisieme
Earthquake
Life
Thoughts
Europa
Lost And Found
Dream Catcher
Bobby Moore O.B.E.
John Harrison
When Duty Calls
Forward, The Hampshires!
Go!
Roy Desborough
Oxo Pete
Spider
Worm
Nesting Box
Mignon
Dog
Sam
Gorilla
Horses In The Park
Hevingham Woodcock
Orchid
The Future
Turned 2 Stone
Tomorrow
Hard to realise
That here and now,
This stationary tick of time,
Will, in once instant,
Be History.

These millions of stopped micro minutes
Where our movements,
Clicks of photographic journeys,
Records of our torments,
Joys, and pleas,
Album'ed in Libraries
For all to ponder,
Mulled, and moved,
Sorted, and grooved,
Will once again see The Light of Day,
And, where speckled sunbeams play,
Live again?

Will these recorded
Historic Moments,
Reborn annually,
Lose the bloom of Actuality,
Be ponderous in their Mobility,
Cartoons in place of Masterpiece,
As like a trio of wall plaque geese
Where once Scotts birds did fly?

Or will each re-birth
Describe again the Mirth,
The Love, and Sadness,
And all the Gladness,
In brilliant technicolour tones,
Ignoring Churchyards tumbled Stones,
Provoke gasps of Astonishment?

GREENWICH BOROUGH MUSEUM
ELTHAM SOCIETYLECTURE
Thursday 4th March 1993