Cliche,the limericks

Cliches are boring to  hear

Like, why is that spoon in your ear?

We must  make things new

Or give a fresh view.

I will stir my tea now,with a spear.

 

My father kept spoons in his hat

For often he wore a wool cap.

When Ma wanted teaspoons

He told her  he’d resume

When all of the spoons were quite  flat

 

Your love is a rose,I am sure

But why not use a new type of flower?

My love is a   frog

We sing in a bog.

Then we sing  once again on the hour.

 

 

 

 

Cliche….the definition from Oxford Dictionary online

cliché

Line breaks: cli¦ché

Pronunciation: /ˈkliːʃeɪ/

(also cliche)

Definition of cliché in English:

noun

1A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought:that old cliché ‘a woman’s place is in the home’the usual worn-out clichés about the English[MASS NOUN]: a mixture of good humour, innuendo

1.1A very predictable or unoriginal thing or person:each building is a mishmash of tired clichés  you’re a walking cliché

2Printing , chiefly British A stereotype or elect

Origin

Mid 19th century: French, past participle (used as a noun) of clicher ‘to stereotype’.

The sea within you

 

Love shines from your eyes
and makes your face
so beautiful.
Smile has a rare beauty
Like a foreign flower
transported into a bare garden.
Though it’s winter
it’s summer in my heart
as I lose myself
in the colour
of the sea within you

Our own Roman Games?

Birdfall

Birds,unlike humans, can  fly across the barriers

Avoid the checkpoints,need no identity papers, permits

Or gold star.

Brothers,why were you separated?

Why could Palestine not be left as one

where ,as in Andalucia before the madness

of Inquisition,you lived together 500 years of peace

Until Christian conformity and suspicion

Tormented and killed you both?

It is we you should be fighting against

Not each other

Are you  our  own Roman Games?

You ,in the  Arena we watch on our screens

We can  turn them off but you,brothers and sisters,

are still there.And your children.

What remains   for any of us?

Flow of words

logorrhea log-uh-RI-uh, n an excessive flow of words, prolixity [Gr logos word + roia flow, stream]

We assume that words are used to communicate but when we are with someone who never stops talking we realise it is not communication in the usual sense..Usually there is an interchange,a sharing of thoughts but I knew one person who drowned one in her words.I believe then it is,ironically, a way of keeping people at a distance.I found it wearing.

Have you ever met loghorrea?

Which is rather like diarrhea.

It’s a long stream of words

With no end ,till absurd.

So if you have it then please keep well clear.

 

It may be a type of desperation;

An error in fruitful communication

A fundamental disorder;

A horse with no ride

Alas,utter demonisation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It rankles within

We try to forget those who harm

With words which cause us alarm..

For it rankles within,

May even cause sin.

Like a snake which may bite or may charm.

 

A festering wound must be cleaned

The poison is otherwise a fiend.

The cut may give pain,

But while pus remains

Septicaemia  lurks unredeemed.

 

And as with the body,the soul

Poison will spoil thus the whole.

We must loosen our hold;

Our resentments unfold.

To  perceive all, we must become bold

 

 

 

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Rankle

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

March 9

rankle audio pron   \RANK-ul\

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Definition
verb
1 :
to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness in
2 :
to feel anger and irritation

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Examples
The ongoing roadwork has begun to rankle local owners who worry that the closed-off streets are hurting their businesses.
“That goal should sit well with many neighborhood residents—but it might rankle some landlords.” — Avery Wilks and Sarah Ellis, The State(Columbia, South Carolina), 26 Sept. 2015dots
Did You Know?
The history of today’s word is something of a sore subject. When rankle was first used in English, it meant “to fester,” and that meaning is linked to the word’s Old French ancestor—the noun raoncle or draoncle, which meant “festering sore.” Etymologists think this Old French word was derived from the Latin dracunculus, a diminutive form of draco, which means “serpent” and which is the source of the English word dragon. The transition from serpents to sores apparently occurred because people thought certain ulcers or tumors looked like small serpents.

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Ruthless foreigners

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The New Yotker

Famous novels to re-read

 

Don Risotto

Dead on the Nail

Far From the Shabby Cloud.

Oliver wished.

Anne of Green Fables

Pilgrims’ Coatless

Robinson’s views are?

Gulliver Unravels

Tom Moans

Do you miss/kiss  her?

Trysts with  Brandy

 The  Quorum

Lemma

Frank with Wine.

The Green Light.

The Bed on the Screen.

The Life of   Bath.

Where Angels Fear to Wed.

Not Anger,Abby.

In  The Middle Grease.

England’s Rabid

 

 

 

 

 

Charms like a bee

abstract summer

I was un-ready for anything,
with no charms, like a bee.
Each fresh day is torture..
When you don’t hate me.

I was as tame as a mango,
I was alright in my mind.
Each night was  a daydream
Where you were  so kind.

I was harmed by your molars.
They were sharper than whales.
Each claw brought the moon out.
As you cut your nails.

Rolling stones gathered
Your heart is not mine.
I’ll give you what you wish for.
It ‘s a half  true design .
.
As long as the clock speaks
As long as the rose.
As long as the bike pumps..
I’ll remember your nose.

As long as my patterns;
As brief as they are;
As long as my brain’s dead…
I shall parsnip a star.

I love a good proverb.
I love no cliches.
When you find some Wisdom
Do not never pay.

Justice long as a ruler,
Sharpened to a screw.
When you are more kind,then
I may leak what I brew
.
As long as the flat Earth
As wise as it’s broad.
The moon in the water
Heard the crow caw.

Please hear my tall story
Sing  with my cello.
I may fail at  the Wife Class
But I can  still say,Oh,no!

I went to the Church belle,
And asked for a clue.
The finger on the dial
Keeps pointing at you.

The music of laughter,
The joy of details,
I went by the river
But the moon never paled
I know the  sky’ s tilted
My muse is in me.
Don’t sting like a daisy
Nor  wail  like  the sea.