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August 11, 2012
She said she didn’t like it,
even though she’d never tried it!
She said the smell made
her want to heave.
I’ve known her leave the table
and rush outside to breath.
She was such a flaming ‘Drama Queen’,
you really wouldn’t believe.
What’s ‘forever’ when you’re
finished, anyway?
It’s only the blue horizon and
no further than the eye can see.
Why worry about the future?
We are all but dead leaves on a tree.
None of us being immortal,
nor reaching eternity free.
What have you been up to
my dearest little cherub?
I sense your feeling of elation
I see the sparkle in your eyes.
I know you well enough, to know
I’m due a few white lies.
With the sharpness of a vulture
about to pounce on it’s prey,
he has to motivate his team
to once again, at the top level stay.
This season, more than others
will test his tenacity and power,
to prove he’s the best manager ever.
Cometh the man, cometh the hour?
She awoke one morning
and suddenly took it into her head
that after a lifetime pining for him,
he probably now was dead.
No-one could change her thinking,
nor could they make her stay.
As she set off on her journey
they watched her life drain away.
Her whole life wasted just hoping,
that someday he would return.
What a price to pay for love,
now that all the bridges burn.
And what, if when in heaven,
god forbid, he isn’t there?
And she booked a one-way ticket,
out of love-sick despair.
And what if all the time,
he was watching from close by,
and just around a nearby corner;
himself, a love-sick spy.
What fools, deserving of each other,
if ever two fools where,
to spend a lifetime apart,
when they could have been a pair.
August 10, 2012
I cannot live with him in the ‘close season’
He goes through a kind of bereavement
In mourning for ‘Match of the Day’!
His favourite players transferred to the enemy
Sick beyond words
Lolling mindlessly around the house
Under my feet
Grumpy, jumpy
Wanting more rumpty – tumpty!
Giving me hell.
Moaning he’s unwell.
Roll on next season
Give him a reason
to live, to exist
To come home elated
To peacefully sleep
Get our life back on track
and our sanity keep.
August 9, 2012
Hoards of people rushing nowhere,
spending dosh they haven’t got
on the latest ‘must have’ gizmo
that they think is hot, hot, hot.
Crashing shoulders with each other,
to the Sales, they run amok,
in hope of saving a small fortune
on the latest ‘Westwood’ frock.
Heading with the kids towards ‘Hamleys’
to grab games running out of stock,
that will be played just once at Christmas
then on a shelf, stored and forgot.
When at last the ‘hit’ is over,
back amongst the crowds they run
to the nearest proverbial coffee bar
for a latte and a bun.
Then with parcels at the ready
and feet about to howl,
they rush back along the street
to get home in time for Simon Cowell.
August 7, 2012
There was a scootercophony of sound
as he roared off on his Lambretta.
Until this world stops turning
I will go on yearning
to see you again once more.
I need to see how you’ve blossomed
and how you’ve coped alone,
in this jungle of existence,
where we spurn our very own.
During her soul searching days
she listened to what people didn’t say.
She saw in their eyes all she needed to see, and
knew in her heart, what the remedy should be.