Day: February 7, 2015

He promised to love me from now to infinity

Oh,dear,what can the matter be
My old man spluttered and spat at me.
He liked his dinner and asked for tea.
Oh,dear,what can the matter be;my fella has lost all his hair.

He promised to buy me a laptop but puzzled me.
He promised to buy me a Kindle yet spat at me.
He promised to buy me a Slate to eat for tea.
Oh dear,what can the matter be,my fella has bags up to there.

He promised to marry me, a week ago Saturday.
He promised to buy me a ring with a battery.
He promised to love me and help in my cattery.
Oh,dear,what can the matter be,my fella is somewhat bizarre.

He promised to buy me a guitar and a flat for three.
He promised to buy me a flute and an egg for tea.
He promised to buy me a harp and explain Marx to me.
Oh,dear,what can the matter be, my fella has bought me a mare.

He promised to love me from now to infinity
He painted my portrait and it is the spit of me.
He took my self image and set me free.
Oh,dear,what can the matter be,he’s gone and he won’t tell me where.

Oh,hey,what a catastrophe
I was married yet now am free.
Oh,hey whatever’s gone wrong with me.
Oh,hey,where’s my apostrophe, the cupboard fell out with the chair.

Daniel and the lion

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Daniel Spinnett was a newly  homeless man in a horrible , wealthy but cruel country called the Reblighted Kingdom.He had been married once but his wife often  used to hurl his hot dinner at him if he was a bit late home and she also had fourteen lovers into the bargain.When she was made Head of Uncivil Service UK he decided he was leaving her and hoped for a second chance and maybe a child as well with a gentler woman
At first he was truly happy in his new  commodious flat and also with  meeting women on the Guardian Solemates website but all too  soon his firm was affected by the recession and he ended up with no money to pay his rent ; his ex-wife was completely and utterly unsympathetic. though she was  rolling in money!
He went to the Council to seek for cheap accommodation
I have nowhere to live.The rents in Lone-don are so high.. can I get a council flat?I am on job seekers allowance of £70 per week…
A council flat?The man behind the desk laughed sarcastically like a dying flea on heroin.
There ain’t no such anymore,mi duck…didn’t you know the Trying Lady sold them off.
Did you not build more using that money,he enquired courteously and logically. as was his wont
Sorry,chum, we spent it on wine, women and bling… gold watches,golfclubs,moats, you know
Daniel felt very upset so he set out to walk to Lightwebbs Forest a couple of miles away for a time of  green beauty andquietness…He fell asleep under am old oak ; he was nervously exhausted ,no doubt
When he woke up a huge cat was standing near him staring curiously
Hello, the cat said in a kindly but loud voice
Hello,I am Daniel from down the road
Well, the cat said,I’m a lion from the circus.We have escaped and we are living here in the woods.
But what do you eat? asked Dan.
Well,we forage around and we find quite a lot of food left out for house cats.. we also have learned to cook leaves and grass over a fire in a double boiler.
The lion smiled down at Daniel showing a light in his amber eyes
You look very thin.Why don’t you come with me to have dinner?
Daniel was  afraid of the lion but he had no alternative. in mind.
After a circuitous walk they reached the deepest,densest  most magical part of the wood.There were four lions,two tigers and four  leopards.
Is this our dinner,they cried excitedly as they gazed at Daniel.
No,this is a poor starving man with no home.
Well.lie down Dan and eat this leafy risotto..
Absolutely delicious,awesome, he cried greedily as he used his hands like a child with no table manners
Then the first lion asked Dan to come with him to his own den.
When they got there he said piteously
I have got a problem and none of the animals here  can help.I have got a piece of barbed wire stuck in my tail and I need a human with fingers to untangle it..
Daniel looked and there was about 12 inches of barbed wire which hit  and beat the old  lion as he walked or ran.Dan managed to untwist it and uuntangle it.He got some water from the stream and washed the lion’s backside where the barbs had cut into him..I have no Elastoplast, he muttered anxiously.The fresh air will heal it, said the lion gently….
And that was how Daniel came to be living in the lion’s den.
He says he prefers it to living with his dominating wife.
He certainly looks fitter than before and is considering asking for surgery to change into a lion on the NHS as there is a lady lion whom he has fallen in love with.No doubt lions don’t get married in church but they do love each other very deeply.
Just go to the forest and take a look next time you fall asleep.
Now the lions enjoy even better food because Daniel has  recipe books and unlike the lions,he can read.They found some old sauce pans at the recycling centre so he can do cheese sauce using milk from the sheep on the edge of the wood,
If you knew what went on in our many woods,you’d definitely get a big surprise..I can tell you.

And hatred seems to cloud the very sky

When friendship and esteem have been foregone

When we have strangled virtue at her birth

And evil thoughts are all that we can find

We cannot take a draught of cheerful mirth;

Escape from this black prison in the mind.

When friendship and esteem have been foregone

And lone as buzzards circling are our hearts.

Remembrance of past joys will never come

And soon from us the last love will depart.

When wickedness draws down our minds to die

And hatred seems to cloud the very sky

When we don’t look to see the  geese fly by

When all we do is moan and weep and sigh

Then let’s remember all we have not lost;

Knot firm our souls till this dark grief has passed

Read more at: http://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/when_friendship_and_esteem_have_been_foregone_536474

Winter weather,frost and stars

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As yet to come from the soil

I often am  grateful for the vision of birds flying across the sky but how much more should we be thankful to the patient  creatures like worms dwelling in the lowly earth.without them life would be impossible

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Photo by kind permission of Mike Flemming  2015.Copyright

Winter  weather,frost and sky,

See white geese and silver stars.

Two cooing  doves with collars red,

Watching out for seeded bread.

From the sun ,low in the sky,

Light falls slantwise to my eyes.

Trees bud though invisible,

Nothing that my eyes can see.

Bulbs shoot up from dark cold soil

Where  worms and beetles quietly toil.

We take for granted air and sky,

Love the birds we see  fly by

But who loves the worms and slugs

And those creatures we call bugs.

So in our dark  cold winter time,

Praise these creatures in the grime.

Without these worms ,our crops would die.

No cornfields for us to lie,

Midst the poppies bright red flowers

Revelling in soft summery bowers.

Praise the snails and bees and ants

For these and spiders,let’s give thanks.

As the  lightness needs the dark,

From darkness come life giving sparks.

Enrich darkness with our gifts.

Look not always to the swift.

Quiet and patient like these worms,

Nature‘s lowness is my  theme

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I love men

I love men,but not the Toffs,
Nor the ones with smokers’coughs.
I would like an artist most,
Especially if he eats buttered toast.

I love men,do men love me?
There’s only one true way to see.
Do your best to put them off,
Wear flat shoes and never laugh.

Study Wittgenstein and Kant,
Study science that’s difficult.
Parse Quantum theory as a hobby.
Learn long words from the dictionary.

Dance with Riemann,flirt with Joyce;
Read Ulysses in a Rolls Royce.
Enjoy some Chess and Trigonometry;
Weigh down your mind with Solid Geometry.

Look around and see who’s left.
That’s the man who loves you best.
Once you’re wed and have a home,
You can free your mind to roam.

Throw away your library,
Let your senses all run free.
Wear bright clothes and enjoy some fun.
Your second life has just begun..

 

Hearts and heads,please

6378673_f260I was taking a short cut through M & S today  when I met a lady whom I have not seen since my cancer problems began last April,probably because I’ve been unable to get out.I was quite glad not to see her as she is the most negative person I’ve ever met.And that is saying something.However I did meet her there today and not being unkind I was prepared to talk to her.I said,I can’t talk standing up as it hurts me,let’s go over to the seats by the cash dispenser which was quite near.She was not prepared to do that.. she said she was going home.Now,she often used to complain to me of being lonely and I did help her when she had had cancer but she can’t seem to adapt to someone else’s needs.
Actually it was a relief to me as I’d already met two closer friends.And this person moans so much that it really is awful.I am usually pretty sympathetic but I am not prepared to stand up in pain for 15 minutes to hear her woes.I have enough woes of my own right now….She seemed angry that I did not stand there and listen to her.Most likely she has had a lot of health problems and may not realise that other people do as well.Ideally I’d like to talk about something else like how about joining the Over Fifties Forum,for example or going to a poetry reading.
I think she had a very good job and is quite well off.When you retire or even before I feel it’s important to mix with people from any part of society for old age and its problems affect all of us,though the well off have more options.But to refuse to meet people who did menial work is not a good idea.Being lonely is inevitable if you are very choosey about who you befriend.Several of my dearest friends both men and women did very low paid jobs and one is almost illiterate but they have hearts and feelings not to mention native wit and common sense which some of us so called intellectuals have either lost or never had.I’ve had it with intellectual snobs.