Over the years different impressions have been made by different aspects of life. Verse is a very good way to communicate feelings that cannot be otherwise portrayed as in, say, a biography or diary. Common Verse represents accounts of everyday life; working class attitudes of relationships with each other; despair, hope, family, religion and historical and topical themes.Written from a backdrop of west midlands heavy industry and life coping with the arrival of the twenty-first century, it is a short insight into a mind coming to terms with a terminal illness; and maybe a view from the slideshow beyond.