24-04-2013, 11:39 AM
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A true story - I trained in the early years with a good mate - a yorkshire lad who's father wrote jokes for Morecambe and Wise. We both married and went our separate ways but occasionally met until he emigrate to OZ in the 70's and I stayed for another decade. Then I also emigrated and we caught up again - this time he was separated and drinking heavily and finally died of choking during 'status epilepticus'As soon as one met him he was smiling and grinning - perhaps the smiling depression amongst us. I still see his ex and married kids and so this was my tribute to him in poem:
The first time that I met you
You impressed me with your smile
It started off your laughter
That still echoes in my mind
But it wasn’t just the laughter
Nor the smile that held my gaze
It was the sparkle in your eyes
That said “these may be crazy days”
Your laughing gaze could penetrate
The coldest of our stares
And you challenged us to see the fun
Hinting “he will win who dares”
Just for that briefest moment
Before commitment comes
You shared ‘genetic humor’
From the father to the son
And then you’d gone; departed
Marriage, family, kids and wife
Perhaps your dreams got buried
In the career, mortgage, life?
The next time that I saw your smile
Some ten years down the track
It looked the same; just aged a bit
Wrinkled, waned and waxed
The laughter still hung in the air
Punctured with a cough
But heh! That twinkled eye was there
You could still pull it off
I can’t tell when the fire burnt out
It must have been one spring
The twinkle in the eyes grown dull
But the laughter still could sing
I put it down to just old age
It catches up with all
What I hadn’t realized this time
Was you’d given it your all
The show goes on; the lights must burn
Regardless of the soul
We watched your lights keep shining
Even though your heart was cold
Who knows when we’ve had enough
It’s just hard to say goodbye
Especially when your master card
Was that twinkle in your eye
We stood around your grave that day
Confused, withdrawn and mad
You’d smiled and grinned and laughed a lot
But we’d never seen you sad
They say that memories fade with time
Well maybe yours; but sure not mine
When people say your name out loud
I see your face in any crowd
You may have left this mortal coil
But you’ve left some remnants of your toil
A laugh from generations down
Can still be heard when guards are down
From father, Son and Holy Ghost
The laughter echoes through our hosts
You still are missed at special times
I hope you smile and laugh sometimes.
25-04-2013, 12:45 AM
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The Tummy Bug That Met It's Match
The gypsy had a tummy bug; it hugged her oh so tight
she said it was a nasty one; that kept her up all night
it stopped her socializing; and getting out each day
it used to swirl around her; and have its evil way
now not satisfied with having ;her own true tummy bug
she passed it onto others; through the well known gypsy hug
and now we are all writhing; around the net with pain
I do hope in the future;her bugs drive her insane!
AND THEN I INTERVIEWED THE BUG!
I twas goin about me business; one fine and sunny day
moving around the universe; BUG visits I do pay
I chanced to come upon a gypsy in the woods
and when I got inside her I wondered at the goods
she had a modest stomach well lined. mucosa skin
but it's what she kept inside it that made me think agin
there was half eaten butties with egg and bacon rind
some half chewed chipolatas swilling in the cheap red wine
and the noise itself was deafening it built up with low growl
and then it thundered 'round and 'round
and shot out through her bowel!~
there was nothing to hang onto as I swirled around the mess
and just as I thought I'd made it down came the very best
ten pints of tennants beer poured down the wee small gullet
and it swept me off me BUG feet like a fast tsunami bullet
I'm out of here I thought out loud; I've been in some vast caverns
but there's nought like gypsy's stomach to beat a beer soaked tavern!
25-04-2013, 01:47 AM
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"Secluded Glades"
He struggled with the words as they tumbled in his head
they made perfect sense whilst up there
but once on paper bled
His world seemed purrfectcally sane
but then the white men came again
and said he'd stayed away to long
his tranquilizer home had gone
but I feel so normal now he shrieked
and my poetry is just so neat
just let me stay an eon more
and let this insane world hear more!
we understand your plaintive cry
they whispered as they began to tie
the straight jacket 'round and 'round
now just relax, don't make a sound
when you return to "secluded glades"
with all your friends in unmarked graves
they'll understand your splintered views
and welcome you and all your news
so leave behind this greying world
where people work and drink and shirk
and let your fertile mind flow free
as you embrace you, I and me!
27-04-2013, 04:42 AM
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Loves Won and Lost
I chanced upon her on a greying autumn day
She smiled just briefly, then pressed on; was I just in the way?
I thought there was a flicker there, a glance that stayed just longer
And as our paths crossed more that year that flickering glance grew stronger
I'm not sure when we crossed that line that said this is forbidden
But by then the die had been cast down our passions wildly driven
We grasped at every moment like it was the last on earth
We laughed and cried and held onto that love for all its worth
I guess we knew that we were heading for a cliff top like decision
That would test us to the very core, cloud even loves clear vision
We skirted round that fatal day, Still talked about tomorrows
Said we would work it out somehow despite surrounding sorrows
We went our separate ways again promising not for ever
We phoned, we wrote and tried to meet but the demons were too clever
With broken hearts and heavy steps we trudged our separate paths
As as the time grew longer, our souls were all but trashed
I guess it finished on a 'high' of love and pain and longing
You get on with your life and find some more belonging
We wrote much later in the years and reminisced like lovers
We thought the painting would not dry but the laquer tears had covered
As I look back on all my paths ours was the brightest moment
Just for a while time did stand still and give us joys enthronement
I think I met an angel then sent down to test and steal me
And whisper "love that can't be shared is counterfeit believe me"
29-04-2013, 08:34 AM
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A Lonely Valentine
I used to visit once a week
From "community friends who care"
they said that her need for love
was as longing as her stare
so I just sat and chatted
as she looked through wooded gloom
she seemed to be oblivious
of the din around her room
I told her of my childhood
my loves and lost ones too
what the world was up to
and how the years just flew
then one week out of the blue
I mentioned Valentine
Said 'I wonder how I'll do this year'?
just to pass the time
the muscles in her cheeks grew taut
and her eyes closed narrower still
"I've never had a valentine-
And guess I never will"
the words hung in the moment
and the silence deafened me
I think I fumbled some response
and took my leave to flee
I thought about those words all night
they burrowed in my head
a lost soul had just cried out
and all I'd done was fled
my visits ceased for several weeks
as I went about my life
and then one frosty snow clad day
I returned, my step was light
as I entered through the hall that day
I was called aside to hear
'your lady passed away last night -
no pain - no longer cared'
I walked across to where she'd sat
a card lay on the ground
I picked it up and read the verse
it spoke of loves lost and found
but underneath in shaky hand
a message had been left
you always were my valentine
and always were the best!
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