Tuesday, 23 January 2024

Aconitum








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Josie Weiss on Unsplash

Desirability of deep colour

Natures remedies infuse

Steering senses in the wilderness

In the melancholy blues

 

Cobalt glowed between them

Luscious violet vivid green

Shaping blue in driving forces

Beheld astoundingly serene

 

Blanket blues in covering shades

Teardrop feelings of emotion

Alluring petals of aconitum 

Give blue warnings of their potion

Monday, 22 January 2024

I and I Alone





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My unseen prowler constantly

For convenience, I call ‘I’

Overtakes my consciousness

Where surface tensions underlie 

 

This impatient interrupter

Unashamedly shows up

Then just as easily snubs me

Like a dry bone empty cup

 

Often pleasantly bestowing gifts

From where I struggle to surmise

A curved ball at a tangent

Which I catch to my surprise

 

My ‘I’ a fleeting visitor

Frustrating dream invader

Calls me to my table notebook

This huge idea crusader

Saturday, 20 January 2024

Surrounded

 Zuck Zuckerberg GIF

Social media has got us nailed

Obsessed to use their sites

Controlling much of waking hours

Forestalling dreamy nights

 

Disrespectful with our data

Which they distribute for cash

Enriching exponentially

Piling high their mammoth stash

 

They do not need a war machine

A rebellion or a coup

Merely saturate our biases

Manipulating what we do.

Friday, 19 January 2024

Only A Click Away

No Iphone Sad GIF

The Screen Eyed promenaders
Finger-tapping worlds away
No longer live outside the box
In their almost light of day 

In small groups, they click restricted

Scrolling at a rate of knots

Searching for what’s happening

In their slim, connected slots

 

Sending icons of their feelings

Hoping someone understands

Sharing likes and laughing loudly

Thumbs and fingers tap offhand 

Saturday, 13 January 2024

Proud Marnie






Photo by Daniela Castro on Unsplash

 

With overstated sense of self

She wore a smirk with style

As though she knew the answer

To everything worthwhile

 

Betrayed by body language

Overbearing self-assured

spreading frosty distances

On all connections unsecured

 

Unconvincing inconsistent

Maintaining permanence in rifts

Estimating scanty packages

As little more than worthless gifts

 

 

Wednesday, 10 January 2024

Shades of Deception (The politics of ambiguity)

Its A Game Of Bluff Hatrixx GIF


Fudging hedging fibbing

A politician’s self defence

Disparate views intentionally

Sitting smugly on the fence

 

Impersonates authority

With flimflam drivel bluff

Bland misunderstandings

Full of nonsense laden guff

 

Politics that govern us

Expect adherence to the law

Yet all along they’re perpetrating
A never-ending flaw 

Monday, 8 January 2024

The Forgotten Lot

Travolta Parking GIF

 

In the car park spread immense

Among the rows I wonder

Struggle to unknot my parking spot

Denying my parking blunder

 

Was it by the entrance or exit

My memory has slipped my place

Secretly scanning left and right

Doing my best to not lose face

 

Round and round I continue to roam

Bewildered beginning to dread

Then just in time I feign recall

On how I left it there instead

 

Sunday, 7 January 2024

Unveiling the Shadows

Angry Season 2 GIF by The Office

 

The boss with vested interest

With both eyes on the ball

A need to nab and greedy grab

The largest share of all

 

Rapaciously insatiable

Incessant cash collector

In charge of reining others in

Unimpeachable collector

 

Not answering to anyone

Head honcho of the sting

Without a check did break the necks

And watched the blameless swing



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Between 2000 and 2014, the Post Office prosecuted 701 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses based on information from the faulty computer system. 

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Life in a Rhyme

Cool Running GIF

The meaning of life is in eating
All living creatures must eat
Including the humanoid omnivore
Chewing plants mushrooms and meat

The meaning of life is continuing

By the reproduction of others

Generally, very effective

In procreation of sisters and brothers

 

The meaning of life is surviving

Defending one’s friends against foes

Living together in whatever weather

Not treading on each other’s toes

 

The meaning of life is evolving

Increasing the test on the rest

Little by little new forms will whittle

Forever and ever coalesced


Meaning of life, a question profound,

To love and be loved, to learn and grow,

It's in the moments, that joy is found.

To find our passion, and let it show.

 

The meaning of life is respectful

Doing the best one can do

A game of reiterating

With only one chance being you

Saturday, 6 January 2024

Imitative

 Agotado Profesor Utonio GIF

Slamming deep exciting sounds

Like crash bang wallop bumping

Twanging harps and trumpet parps

Cymbal smash drum thumping

 

Clip clop hooves unstable

Lumpy knocking in the yard

Neigh, neigh, neigh on rainy days

Smashing splashing disregard

 

Awoke to front door banging

Dying echoes ringing ears

Onomatopoeic bumbling

Scrunchy meshing all my gears

Friday, 5 January 2024

Stripping Down Reality

3suite Mobius GIF 

Looking into probabilities

Which may or may not be located

With my thinking loop gone Möbius

Two sides at once both allocated

 

On the one hand I am riding high

At the same time running low

Briefly in a well-known place

Or just as quickly get to go

 

The state of my momentum

Where I finally departed

On the other side returning

Once again from where I started

 

Imagine waves and particles

Instantaneously here and there

Wrapped in packets disappearing

Then back again with some to spare

 

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Thursday, 4 January 2024

Simply Be

Sunrise Fortpierce GIF 

Write me a sweet melodious song

I couldn’t resist her request

Nothing raucous hard or sharp

I pledged to do my best

 

Nothing too mushy or lovey-dovey

More, like a wispy forest scene

A delight in the light of serenity

Lapping babblings upstream

 

A song to sing bring restfulness

In the light of something new

Make music full of gliding notes

Where harmonies imbue

 

Monday, 1 January 2024

Hung Over

Im Never Drinking Again Pinocchio GIF

 

The cold light of New Year’s day

Brings lethargic heads to bear

Kick starting dry hard January

Suffering livers in repair

 

Not a thought for money matters

With one more gay abandon drink

Such frittering on drenching debt

Begins returning to the brink

 

Loudly happy singing out of tune

Party swigging life and souls

The piper waits outside your drum

As the ragged doorbell tolls