05-01-2014, 02:17 AM
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Maudlin ...So I sit here wondering so many things, about my life in general
Why do I get so maudlin at times, as if awaiting my funeral?
Deja vu plagues me, eating away at my weakening exterior
Everything I do now seems oh so familiar
Why, also, does booze cause my melancholy reflections?
Underneath it all then are there underlying conditions?
If I'm this way now at 56 how then will be in just a few years time?
Struggling to find my way in life - without excitement - surely a depressing crime?
Why should I give in to old age and become acceptable to all?
Surely I have energy left to focus on me, me in total?
05-01-2014, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by MKJ
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Maudlin ...So I sit here wondering so many things, about my life in general
Why do I get so maudlin at times, as if awaiting my funeral?
Deja vu plagues me, eating away at my weakening exterior
Everything I do now seems oh so familiar
Why, also, does booze cause my melancholy reflections?
Underneath it all then are there underlying conditions?
If I'm this way now at 56 how then will be in just a few years time?
Struggling to find my way in life - without excitement - surely a depressing crime?
Why should I give in to old age and become acceptable to all?
Surely I have energy left to focus on me, me in total?
Your 5th line down is your biggest clue
There lies the cause of what happens to you
If worry & booze is not what you sought
Why do you do it - Life is too short.
No peace of mind can do us much harm
Yet you have us believe you're all wit and charm,
But cheer up Mark, you're still fairly young (ish)
Give up on despair - life's barely begun.
09-01-2014, 11:08 PM
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The Night of the Silent Pen.Twas a few nights after the New Year
When I noticed no verse did appear
Has the well run dry
Has the poet gone shy
Tis love caused it all I fear.
Methinks Lourve is in the air, cheer up Mark, love is a many splendored thing, so they say.
09-01-2014, 11:21 PM
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2 bites of toast and that was allShould she sleep with it under her pillow ?
The alternative is to frame the thing
And exhibit it as a 'piece of Art'
She contemplates .... absently eats a corner
Oh dear ! the shape has altered somewhat
Is it now 'ART' or something alien
Has she destroyed its very being
Or turned it into a worthy exhibit
Valued by all the critics viewing ?
09-01-2014, 11:37 PM
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One could always preserve it in clear varnish, it is unique after all, never again will there be a piece of toast like that.I knew a chap years ago and he would read your fortune from the froth left in your glass after a pint of Guinness, just like the tealeaf readers, he seldom got it right but he was unique non the less, I have never seen anybody do it since he died.
09-01-2014, 11:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Jem
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One could always preserve it in clear varnish, it is unique after all, never again will there be a piece of toast like that.I knew a chap years ago and he would read your fortune from the froth left in your glass after a pint of Guinness, just like the tealeaf readers, he seldom got it right but he was unique non the less, I have never seen anybody do it since he died.
'ere' that doesn't rhyme
, anyway the thread says prose too.
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