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July 27, 2013
Alas, lass, it came to pass
I said ‘no good could there be’,
when you fled down the path
of no return, in order to marry he.
Barely out of school were you at the
time, with fairy tales in your head,
and not prepared to listen to sense
before you entered his bed.
Alas, lass, it came to pass
No point saying ‘I told you so.
For you went down the path that I took,
so many, many years ago!
July 22, 2013
The ship that sailed on that yon sea
was built for neither you nor me
With waves so high and sharks that peep
no calm was there, just lack of sleep.
The ship that sits near drier land
is now our kingdom to command.
With blue skies high, where salmon leap
and peace of mind is ours to keep.
A planted seed that
never should have been
Now decades on still
remains unseen.
The gift of life –
A random gene
Is now the time to
finally come clean?
Oh rum, that is the sailors tea
that warms his heart
so he merry be.
Oh wench, that is the sailors glee
after long and lonesome
days at sea.
They stand as one, yet in a pair,
joined at the hip through years of care.
They talk as one, and tales compare,
of bygone days and wisdom share.
They sleep as one, yet in two beds,
now bodily functions wreck their heads.
They see as one, now eyes are dim,
both he for her and her for him.
They die as one, life’s not worthwhile,
without the other at whom to smile.
No tricks or hidden agenda
No falsehood or cloudy smoke screen
Tis hard to believe they are so supportive
when such users some others have been.
No self promotion or social climbing, no
double edged sword that in the back stabs
Just love offered purely and simply
flowing as frequent as city black cabs.
No secret ulterior motive
No improbable tenuous link
Just friendship offered from the heart
So rare these days, one only can think?
So starved of
help of any kind
that her whole body
aches for sleep and
peace of mind.
No long term contact
required, just a friendly
cuppa, away from the daily
grind, until the family reappear
and she carries on resigned.
So starved of
touchy-feely love
that his whole body
aches for womanly
charms.
No long term contact
required, just a friendly
massage by experienced
palms, until stress disappears
and the body calms.
July 15, 2013
When letter winkies
begin to play
high jinkies
And better sinkies
begin to smell
hot drinkies
And setter linkies
begin to spin
real thinkies
Tis the time
to sort those
zetter minkies.
And in a life
that had a
chequered past
And mud once
slung was
surely there
to last
And fortune cookies
eaten until sick
No other option
was there
but to tick.