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You Silly Goose

What folly is fancy free and footloose
Please don't be fooled, tis but a ruse
If you think about it you will deduce
Freedom's never free, you silly goose

Fancy free beneath a flag of truce?
Cling to liberties while still profuse
Avoid the ropes hanging from a spruce
Those knotted and dangling in a noose 

Stay clear of those who tout fancy-free
and the falsehoods in what they decree
They complain and whine like a banshee
with an attitude to stubbornly disagree

You can take your Debbie Downer attitude
stuff it if you think you've been screwed
Don't enter contests. You're not pursued
to write if you don't have the apptitude.

Copyright © Lin Lane | Year Posted 2017

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Meymei Rose Date: 5/26/2017 9:05:00 AM I love the essence of this poem Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 5/26/2017 10:13:00 AM Thank you, Meymei.

Darren White Date: 5/16/2017 12:41:00 PM Lots of wonderful alliteration. Plus I feel a rant was needed in the form of a poem.... This feeling got stronger after I googled who the heck Debbie Downer is :) Love the poem! Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 5/16/2017 1:09:00 PM LOL Darren, you needed only to ask and I would've gladly told you. You're quite perceptive in the course of this one. I'm glad you like it so well. Thanks!

Eye Truth-Teller Date: 5/15/2017 4:34:00 PM Funny poet Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 5/15/2017 4:55:00 PM I can be funny...I can be serious. Thanks for reading me and leaving a comment.

Emile Pinet Date: 5/15/2017 2:58:00 PM This is good, done with superb yet subtle imagery, while the sincerity and simplicity of the words, grab you from the start and never lets go. Your word choice is good and the message sent (although not conventional), is strong and emotional. Emile. #7 Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 5/15/2017 4:54:00 PM I appreciate such detailed comments on what started out to be a fluff piece, but sometimes a poem takes us where it leads. Thanks so much for your compliments, Emile.

Connie Marcum Wong Date: 5/14/2017 10:05:00 PM Wow Lin, that last line is a zinger! But appropriate! : ) I call people silly goose when they are acting like one....wonder if that is a Midwestern/southerly thing? Love this! 7 ; ) Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 5/15/2017 7:12:00 AM Hi, Connie. Thank you. I'm not sure where the expression originated, but it certainly fits many.

Winged Warrior Date: 5/14/2017 10:18:00 AM You Silly Goose you lol...a laughable write Lin...Happy moms day...^WW^ Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 5/14/2017 10:52:00 AM Oh, I can be such a silly goose! Thanks for the comment and the Mother's Day wishes.

Tim Smith Date: 5/14/2017 10:13:00 AM Funny Lin...is this for a contest? Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 5/14/2017 10:51:00 AM Not for a contest...just having a say. Thanks, Tim.

Jan Allison Date: 5/14/2017 9:59:00 AM ha ha ha ha ha oh Lin I love this on SO many levels lol:-) hugs Jan xx Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 5/14/2017 10:50:00 AM Thanks, Jan. I thought you'd appreciate it. Hugs.

Daniel Turner Date: 5/14/2017 9:56:00 AM Happy Mother's Day Lin. Sending love your way:) Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 5/14/2017 10:50:00 AM Thank you very much, Danny. Hugs to you sweet friend.