Poetry is a bit like a fart...

[Redundant]

...it just has to come out:

It’s a sneaky insidious liar
There’s no grace to growing old
Just creaking bones
And aches and moans
And always feeling the cold

It rots your mind and steals your breath
This murderous traitorous age
Like your favourite toy
You had as a boy
That lies twisted and broken in rage

Lost, bemused and mostly bewildered
Our memories ransomed by mist
By carers we’re guarded
As hope is discarded
Until we cease to exist

[What?  They can't all be about love and sex]

[Diane CBPFC]

I thought you meant it was like a fart in that your own doesn't seem half so bad as other people's.

[Redundant]

I thought you meant it was like a fart in that your own doesn't seem half so bad as other people's.

Sadly I have distinct memories which entirely refute that particular urban legend 

[Diane CBPFC]

Mine, much like the Queen's, have always been silent and scentless. 

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Mine, much like the Queen's, have always been silent and scentless. 

Ah, but are they (as Billy Connolly once observed about Her Majesty) expelled through a small valve on one's pinky, as one performs the Royal Wave to the adoring masses from one's limousine window?

[Redundant]

We used to call them SBDs - "Silent But Deadly", lately it's become the cry "Release the Kraken!" [it's a small Island, there's not that much to do]

[Mince]

Redundant, I like your avatar - There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand BINARY and those who don't.

In the same vein, why is Halloween the same as Christmas?

[Redundant]

In the same vein, why is Halloween the same as Christmas?

Thanks Mince, because 25=31, octally speaking

[Redundant]

Topical!!!    [Is there no end to the lack of talent this man possesses?   Probably not]

Anti Semitics
And racist taunts
Echo in the hallways
That Labour now haunts

Why seek to recant
Heartfelt predilection
We didn't mean it
An apologists contradiction

Exile Jews to the States
In a final solution
It's not anti Jewish
Just a Jewish 'dissolution'

[Diane CBPFC]

Topical!!!    [Is there no end to the lack of talent this man possesses?   Probably not]

Anti Semitics
And racist taunts
Echo in the hallways
That Labour now haunts

Why seek to recant
Heartfelt predilection
We didn't mean it
An apologists contradiction

Exile Jews to the States
In a final solution
It's not anti Jewish
Just a Jewish 'dissolution'

Seriously Redundant, have you considered taking up interpretative dance?

[Redundant]

Seriously Redundant, have you considered taking up interpretative dance?

Is that because:

a) It's pretty difficult to post an "interpretative dance" in a forum or
b) a similar expression to "You do for poetry what Charles Manson does for Music?" or
c) you secretly want me to write another poem, but this time about Isadora Duncan?

[Mince]

Heartfelt predilection

I first heard that word when I saw Star Trek 2, and have loved it ever since.

BONES: Spock, you haven't changed a bit. You're just as warm and sociable as ever.

SPOCK: Nor have you, Doctor, as your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates.

[Redundant]

Heartfelt predilection

I first heard that word when I saw Star Trek 2, and have loved it ever since.

BONES: Spock, you haven't changed a bit. You're just as warm and sociable as ever.

SPOCK: Nor have you, Doctor, as your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates.

      Sadly, I remember that, and it could well be that's where my subconscious got it from.   It is a lovely word, glad I got to use it!

[Mince]

The music for this part of the film is my absolute favourite piece from the late and great James Horner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCpYqWAIwFA

[Redundant]

My wife wants me to redo the first poem and she's going to put it in a Birthday card for a friend of ours...I thought she liked him.   Apparently he will be so impressed I actually wrote it he will not notice what a depressing little dirge it is...like I said, it's a small Island, here this is called entertainment...