Doctor,doctor.Fifty percent of the patients have gone crazy.
So how many is that?
One.
You should have said,fifty percent of the patients has gone crazy.
That sounds ungrammarly
So did that!
Month: January 2014
The sea within you
The sea within you
Love shines from your eyes and makes your face so beautiful. Your smile has a rare beauty Like a foreign flower transported into a bare garden. Though it's winter now, it's summer in my heart as I lose myself in the colour of the sea within you
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No space for kindness?
I am continuing my thinking about poetic forms,The limerick is popular with most people even those who are afraid of poetry in general apart from it n,The Ancient Mariner etc
Now I do not pre-think a poem.I don’t know much about what will emerge.Sometimes a phrase like,The Museum of my heart,comes into my mind and I am stimulated to write around that.My first poem on my first blog was free verse.I had been outside in snow and the streetlights gave a strange orange glow on the whiteness..also the air smelled different as I looked at the dark sky and the snowflakes
CHRISTMAS SNOW
Too old for cold,I stand, now ,against the hedge,
Watching the snowflakes in the glare of neon street lights.
Darkness has come early,and I think of country uplands and huddled sheep.
On Salisbury Plain,shepherds watched their flocks
Just as in Bethlehem two thousand years before,
And then,exactly when?
“Between the wars”,it stopped. Now we know there is no “Between the wars”.
And who decided
To cull the sheep and shepherds and the space for kindness ?
Now that same Plain still exists,but banned
And closed to human-kind,
For bombs ,not wombs
Nor for birth of lamb ,nor gypsy child ,nor Saviour
Where would He go today
I had no form in my mind when I was writing nor did I know it was going to be about whether in the world we have created there is any space for true creativity….
So I did not try to make into a sonnet or any other type of poem
Maybe it found its own form? It evokes for me the whole scene I saw
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The algebra of messaging and commenting
xxxx = I like/love you/it
yyyyy=I can’t understand it.
zzzzz= I feel sleepy after I read your writing.
uuuuu= You are self absorbed,narcissistic or an egoist.
vvvvv= I want to view more
wwwww= I want to wee urgently but postponed till I read this.
xyxyxy= Love it but it’s incomprehensible.
xzxzxzxz-= Love it and feel drowsy and relaxed
yzyzyzy== too tired but trying to comprehend
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List of ward rules
Please do not view smartphones whilst walking about.
Please do not fall over after rising from the bed.
Kindly do not tell the doctor he is stupid.He knows.
The doctor is only a pest sometimes.So act accordingly
Kindly pretend to listen to the Consultant on his round.He is human,we presume
Kindly do not eat cream buns or meringues in front of the Consultant.He is on a diet.
Kindly avoid catching any bugs belonging to or emantaing from this hospital.
Kindly do not sleepwalk whilst here.
Please do not swallow your Kindle before lights out.
Keep yourself clean.Take a bed by the open window during a storm.
Kindly avoid dying when we are busy.Wait for some space.
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