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Are people starting sentences with "so" more frequently
than ever or are we just noticing it more?
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So! This is what I want to say

So! Much impact using so

So! Listen up ‘So!’ is my cue

So! That you know I’m in the know

So! When I’m being interviewed

So! To speak when on the spot

So! To underline the point I make
So! There you are that’s all I’ve got

One Sunday

 

I've brewed a Sunday cuppa 
Sitting pleasantly with sun
Sunday morning easy pace 
Until the doing nothing's done 

My tethered reins hang loosely

Distant clocks sing softly kind

Quiet shuffles of a passer-by

Who’s not paying any mind

All my purposes are held in check

Teacup messages drift in steam

The beauty of this priceless state

Is every painter’s private dream

Easter Parade

 

It's time to take the togs off

Those workman strides and boots

Put away our strings and toolbox things

Embrace more positive pursuits

We have an eye for getting there

Touring country vales and dales

A motorcar for icy weather

Protected warm in bracing gales

And then there is the motorbike

Our wheelie dream on better days 

With panniers and all the gear

To travel round in cheery haze

To go from here arriving anywhere

Enjoy exhilarating leisure

Around the fields and village mysteries

Day-tripper leagues of turn-up treasure

For this is what we strove to do

When called upon to do without

Those long hours worked we never shirked

Our choice all ours without a doubt

A Pint Sized Village

 

Small Brewery big products

Searching for a quench experience

Where sturdy barrels rugged kegs

Will enlighten tired taste buds

Of sitting sipping rested legs

At the New Inn close to Pickering

Where every tap can pour a draw

A positive pull in a beer glass full

Will have you pleading “just one more”

If you hanker for a tipple treat

May I suggest the brewery tour

If you must do lunch then evening meal

You can stay the night for sure

And if you do then all is well

Guzzling glugs in Madness jugs

Or pirouette a Tony Hadley set

Plus another one of Sugs

Barley water hops and malt

A baseline special mix

Taking pains with cereal grains

To make a mushing crushing fix

How great this Yorkshire Brewery

Near a homely cattle shed

Cropton on a moor side edge

To drink your fill and be well fed

On a weekend break recently we visited The New Inn And Cropton Brewery it was really good value and the beer was terrific. If you fancy checking it out the address is Cropton 
Pickering North Yorkshire  YO18 8HH

Almost There

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In our methods and routines

On the lookout for escapes

Being elsewhere in existence

Wherein campaigners traipse

 

Living in a numbers game

Where differences make sense

Lots of doing yet not doing

Where this reality is pretence

 

Wits about you is essential

Blinding lights to set you off

The battle weary lose their way

In a death invading trough

 

 

 

On Leave

We thought we'd take a holiday 

our dream to get away
escaping from the 'Rat-Race' 

and the hurly burly fray
a sunny place pedestrian pace 

with not too much to do
a little healthy exercise 

perhaps a drink or two 

We got there without hindrance

expectations running high
it seemed so transcendental 

beneath a bold blue summer sky
the town close by was beckoning

we gaily ventured out

every restaurant we passed 

was guarded by a Tout 

"Come in here and taste our stuff"

 everywhere we went
on every corner cads and knaves

and rogues to circumvent
Three card tricksters, 

counterfeiters, 

drunkards very many
philanderer's and blackguards

in pursuit of every penny
We ventured back with eyes alert

attuned to sound and smell
A haven break? 

Not sure my friend

to me it seemed like hell 

20th Verb Anniversary

 

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Out there daily strolling

At dawn break early hours

A poet sees the way of it

Inverting eyeful powers

A shadow innovator

Finds a hint in residue

Filling up the spaces

Identifies a hidden clue

Extended by projections

Gained in zany cracks

A sensing sign detector

Unravels inside tracks

Pond Life

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From the origin of origins
Began a life deep in a pond
Among the eating and the eaten
Without a prayer or magic wand
 
No blessed words or salutations
Large or small the fate of all
No rituals just victuals
No consecration shawl
 
Life with all its stages
There to share or disregard
Scrapbooks of partial images
Open space or locked backyard