Wax stick, with wick.
Gives light at night.
Put out with finger lick.
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Candle
Tag Archives: Fun
Fleeced
Mary had a little lamb
‘Cause prices are so steep
She got it from a butcher
Averse to selling cheap
She cooked a feeble dinner
From that pathetic sheep
The moral of the story:
As ye shop, so shall ye reap
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Punctuation
The world of litigation
Knows the worth of punctuation
Many a misplaced comma
Results in courtroom drama
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Alternative?
Let’s forget alternatives:
if it’s not one thing, it’s another.
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Yoohoo!
my computer’s back
it was badly missed
I was champing at the bits
under anxiety attacks
became a dipsomaniac
for all my fluff
in files were stuffed
seething in the black
folders where they lie
waiting
pulsating
agitating to be heard
for even silly words
need liberating
from time to time
that’s why you get so many of mine
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Sorry I was gone so long. When computers die, a little piece of my soul goes with them (and a huge piece of my back catalogue: thankfully, all recovered).
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Apologies
I’m not out of town:
my computer broke down
so my blog posts I’m shirking
while it’s not working.
Complaint
I must get this off my chest:
German markets have been cursed.
They sell such smelly sausages.
But I suppose it could be wurst.
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Romantic Trope
The poor but plucky heroine
meets a sexy billionaire.
It began with one Miss Scarlett
and her, Well, I do declare!
Read of many lively ladies
in bonkbusters everywhere.
But now new scribes forego the drapes
and lose the underwear.
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Turd Central
Old dogs:
Incontinent, until they pop their clogs.
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In Praise of my New Hat
I have a hat
It is divine
I love that hat
Because it’s mine
The felt is blue
The brim turned up
The band is full
Of silly stuff
I wear it on
A special day
Because I need
To indicate
I’m there to teach
And create fun
That’s why my Writing Hat is on
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Chatting to a colleague about the difficulties of getting people in the local community centre to engage with writing, I said, ‘The problem is, people don’t know when I’ve got my writing hat on…I should get a hat.’
And I did!
I debuted it last Friday and it was a big success because, even as short as I am (though not as short as I was: see Identity Crisis for details) no one could miss me.
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Poetry Fluff 