The word present

If the government absolutely have to make cuts, I suggest culling the adverb. We don't absolutely need it, absolutely.

Divine Inspiration

The Roman poet Ovid, writing in around AD 6 seems to have accurately anticipated the most widely-accepted explanation for the origin of bacterial life on Earth today:

“Then man was made perhaps from seed divine

Formed by the great Creator, so to found

A better world, perhaps the new made earth,

so lately parted from the ethereal heavens,

kept still some essence from the kindred sky…”

New sonnet

...the first for ages. Using my favourite rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.

Brian

On a late summer's day when the iron earth
roasts and the grass wilts and waves in the breeze,
the garden bees plunder for all their worth
and blackbirds tweet among the turning leaves.
A cat shelters, shaded under a tree
green eyes winking to a close as he sleeps,
paws folded neat in front, his whiskers free
he wiles away the midday heat and keeps
close his company in a hushed black heap.
And the day eases to evening and cools,
the eyes open as the scarlet sun's creep
concludes, darkness now rules in shady pools
and the cat, wrapped in the night's sooty stole
sets off to chase some quick thing down a hole.