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March 29, 2013
Pray for peace to gently guide you
Bathe in oils that will embalm
Hold a touchstone when you’re desperate
to re-create some inner calm.
Trust in the Lord for he will protect you
when all in your life seems so unfair.
Follow his guiding light to recovery
Though never seen, he is always there.
Put behind you, all the anguish
That in recent times you have been through
Tomorrow is a new day
Where ahead are skies of blue.
He wore a crown of thorns around his head,
knowing the enemy from within.
But he held back any words of wrath,
in the hope of dignity to win.
Blind to signposts, he continued
on the route through no-man’s-land.
A directional error on a journey that
was neither thought out or planned.
March 14, 2013
We once came down Prettywood Hill,
with our parents in their Morris Eight,
when a tyre rolled by in front of us,
making us brake to keep the car straight.
‘Some poor bugger’s lost a tyre’, Dad said,
as our car swerved this way and that,
before suddenly tipping up on one side,
when in a ‘three wheeler’, we knew we were sat!
March 6, 2013
Mother’s Day comes around so fast,
reminding us all, it’s time
to get in touch and say ’Hello’ and
send a card with a suitable rhyme.
If only Mum knew how busy I am?
The computers crashed today, and
I had to work through my lunch break
as the year-end is up in May.
I pulled in at the ‘Services’,
to get some petrol and grab a card,
but the verses were all too sloppy
and I really looked ever so hard.
Just as I was giving up
I spotted one with a dog that would fit,
though the words inside were negligible.
She’d say that my partner had chosen it!
But I had to get it anyway,
as it was a last minute bid!
It was too late for choc’s and flowers
so I put in twenty quid.
I dashed out to the post van,
that from nowhere had appeared.
‘This card can’t go in here’ said the man
as we both now, at it peered.
‘It needs a first class stamp on it,
if you want it to get there on time’
I swear for just a second, I was
nearly hung for committing a crime.
‘But seeing as how it’s for Mother’s Day,
if you give me the value of the stamp,
I’ll see as it’s put in the sack with the rest
when I get back to camp’.
She thought she was a sex bomb.
She thought she had it all.
Trouble was, her hips were far too wide,
and her tits were far too small.
She thought she was a corker,
She thought she had it made.
Trouble was, she looked like Joan of Arc,
when dragged through some crusade.
She thought she was a pin-up,
She thought that men did swoon.
Trouble was, her three-some fantasy,
wouldn’t have attracted an entire
Platoon.
Wearing a face-shadowing black fedora,
Percoughalees was wheeled in through
the airport doors, where he immediately
spotted Brubellgot stepping out of the
lift from the private staff stores
He was accompanied by Nodsincquento,
his co-pilot for the night flight,
both just having arrived on duty, and
making Percoughalees smile with delight.
Being injured was to prove adventageous,
as, after handing over his boarding pass,
Percoughalees was immediately prioritised,
only to find himself sat in First Class!
The upgrade was quite unexpected,
but he kept silent and went with the flow.
And oh, how his heartbeat raced, when he
saw Mendotta walk across the apron, below.
Having his foot in plaster had its uses,
he later, cunningly began to think,
as he snuggled down under his blanket, after
spying Mendotta, sensuously sipping her drink!
She cried ‘Not me’,
‘No, t’is not I,
who caused you grief
or spiked your eye’.
‘Please take this olive
branch from the tree,
I lie, I do,
You are right
It was me’.
He needed her now he was stuck in his chair,
with only his zimmer to go anywhere –
Well about time too.
He wanted her now he was so house-bound,
with only Jack and Billy coming around –
Well about time too.
He loved her now that the others were dead,
and she was the only one left in his bed –
Well about time too.
He knew why now she felt bitter and twisted,
When to that damned club he had enlisted.–
Well about time too.
Halleluiah
So that’s it then, the end of an era,
all finished, there’s no going back.
Seconds from now he’ll turn and leave,
becoming the saddest joker in the pack.
What they had, they knew, was priceless.
A chance meeting and then he moved in.
The house for a while rang with laughter,
but time now, to take defeat on the chin.
They both gave it full-on commitment,
and for a time lived out their dream.
Nothing could ever compare to it,
but it’s over, and now tears stream.
Parting is such agonising sorrow, and never
more so than when it’s the end of the line.
Their paths mustn’t ever cross again, so
at each other they look, for the very last time.