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Harry the Heathen Haddock

[A couple… ONLY TWO?… of you have wondered about my recent absence from Soup. I’m on a personal challenge to write 52 poems for kiddies… maybe, only maybe, to put a booklet together. My mind doesn’t naturally do ‘kiddy think’ so it’s stretching me a bit. This little ode, I felt was too grown up for kiddies, but I rather like it so I thought I’d share it with you lot ;-) ] Harry the haddock swam proud in the sea He said there is no fish that looks down on me I told him of one and he looked at me odd And said I’m not sure that there’s really a Cod

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Rico Leffanta

Date: 4/15/2022 11:26:00 AM

Cod-awful close! Aloha!

Terry Flood
Date: 4/16/2022 3:11:00 PM

Hi, Rico. I actually like this tge more I read it… just wasn’t sure a child would get it. Cheers bud.

Deb M

Date: 4/14/2022 4:20:00 PM

I am so glad to see you back Terry!! Are you staying?? Such a cute poem! Debx

Deb M
Date: 4/14/2022 5:02:00 PM

Well good luck with your project completion. Debx

Terry Flood
Date: 4/14/2022 4:50:00 PM

Am I staying? Hmmm… my nature is such that I have to finish what I start. I’d read a bad book to the end in case it got better, I’d watch a bad movie right through for the same reason… my kiddie poems are doing my head in… but I just gotta finish them. Only then will my brain let me think anew. So I will be back, I hope it’s soon. Glad you enjoyed this one, Deb. Terry x

Terry Flood
Date: 4/14/2022 4:44:00 PM

Posted this in response to your and Angela’s enquiries. One of a few that seemed slightly too mature for kiddies. Good job really… otherwise I’d have to draw a haddock! Ha ha… Terry

Tom Cunningham

Date: 4/14/2022 2:34:00 PM

Lol a fishy tail, you've been missed Terry, glad everything is well with you. Tom

Terry Flood
Date: 4/14/2022 4:38:00 PM

Just between you and me and the gatepost, Tom, I find myself wondering if sitting back and watching a slaughter is sapping my humour… is it? I don’t know… but not much seems funny right now. Is my ‘project’ an escape? I don’t know. I suspect that a bullet hole in Putin’s head would flick my funny switch… here’s hoping. I am well and I am engrossed in ‘stuff’ but sooner or later I’ll get the ‘funny’ back… you have been warned! Cheers. Terry

Gary Radice

Date: 4/14/2022 1:02:00 PM

Pardon the pun Terry but..Brill! :) Harry's Highway Cod. Love it! Great work Terry! :) Cheers - Gary

Terry Flood
Date: 4/14/2022 4:29:00 PM

Glad you liked this, Gary. Trying to second guess a child’s mind isn’t my forte, but this kinda tickled me. Cheers. Terry