The Wispy Spirit Waited
He was sucked into the nasty Australian air
purifier in the living room of 67 Oak Street, Elmwood. To him, that wasn’t at all fair!
For Halloween night,
he’d planned to haunt the furrowed asleep.
In the filter, with not much sight,
he moaned, ‘I should’ve entered with a creep.
I should've gone through the bathroom window
or maybe through the bedroom window!'
So, he waited and waited
and waited.
He couldn’t move a metre
He couldn’t move a centimetre.
A week later, the owner emptied the filter out the
window, and the spirit went into the
mouth of a man-eater
who was a wife cheater.
A hair about a centimetre long!
Was it an eyelash
or a tiny piece of nasal ornamentation
in this library book?
Was it left here by the last borrower?
Or has she - or he -
found it, known it was from
the previous borrower, and ignored it?
How long could eyelash
or nasal hair
remain here on page sixty-five
almost defying its removal?
Or will a librarian happen across this souvenir,
blow it away
before returning the book
to its place on the shelf?
(2 Oct 2023)
At Wimbledon, you must wear white
To play upon the courts
And that includes your sneakers, visors,
T-shirts, socks and shorts.
The colour police do not allow
Off-white, ecru or cream
And sneaker soles and laces
Should be white enough to gleam.
A single trim of colour
May adorn your neck or cuff,
No wider than one centimetre,
Which should be enough.
These rules apply to underwear
As well, and all obey.
How shocking it would be
If some black lace were on display!
In other tennis venues
Players’ fashions may beguile
But at Wimbledon, these regulations
Cramp some people’s style.
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Varied species of the kingdom
Across our earthly home
From sponges to the octopus
Without a backbone
Laying small eggs
Or a centimetre long
Astounding invertebrates
There outer skin is strong
Upon an organism
There they choose to lay
Eggs for a food source
Paralyse their prey
As the insect grows
So rapidly within
A time of which to moult
Remove their outer skin
The expanding colony
Survival of the team
Young bees evolving
From a single queen
Shed their exoskeleton
Insect crawling out
Expansion of their wings
Body drying out
Beginning as larvae
From the eggs they hatch
Dramatic transformation
Metamorphosis match
Written by Geraldine Taylor ©
Ye might be feather light, lean or leafy,
You scarce can a spot kiss in a jiffy,
Till a bird be of flight
That flies faster than light,
Jiffy is a birdie a bit iffy.
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Jiffy is equal to about 33.3504 picoseconds (one trillionth of a second). Now, to reach anywhere in a jiffy one must travel one centimetre faster than the speed of light. Can you?
Tongue-in-cheek | 13.03.2017 | humour
Synchronised zephyrs are holidaying in giant zones. It is interesting to note that this experience is not an easy excursion. For such weight is waving and waving is not a noted duty for any passing shoal of cuttlefish appearing on a highway. To watch a duck eating a four course dinner and drinks is often an enlightening experience. But exploding beach balls can make quite a large amount of mess. Measure messages metrically. And so the talking tiger traverses a roped bridge bringing the lively little cakes. A centimetre chats to a kilometer. And static sailors are looking at the peas. Take no silvery signal box to a five star hotel. Ok then. Wear a silky suit then. Good. That should please a pantry pickle. Hahaha waving washing machine passing. Xxxx Broomfield brook xxxx dodecahedron zzzz
The monopolistic idea of a ninety centimetre circus tent is a mere chamber of commerce in a tea cup. Tea cups hold many cakes but cannot yet manufacture great pies or quiches. Whichever the way is the home? Whichever way the bell rings. Ding dong then. Run run run. Supper is being served. One crumb and a sliver of cheese. Great. Now sweep. Eating ecstatically every even effort. And a large dollup of tea swings from the high branches at this time of here. Thud then. Monarchial moons move. And a dish of sour cream claps. Good. Now that was the latest from the p y q reporting from zone r. Z
Situations stirring like a great big bee. Finishing annihilation aimed at a tree. Forty-six fishes means a great big line. And a pool of senses is neither a slime nor a faith. In a nine centimetre goblet there is existing a catacomb of unauthorized doctrines who seek to revoke a planetarium alignment at six o'clock and a wide rancid frog belching in a corner is merely akin to a large box of chocolates waltzing on a plate. But at the high speed cycle of a washing machine there cab exist 200 drones, a purple nightie, a silver molested glove, ten drawn swords and a sparkly dagger. Omit no orbic residue from a tidally induced flood. And a flour is not a flower it is not a baking in a two foot garden. Hahahahah synergistic syndrome symmetrically symbolised stirring sap syrup. And a giant horn of a herd rising and raising a radioactive beam. Oh prison not a prism. Pickle no paint. And curve no charisma. Hahahaha to it all. Ho how much you can do that for the purpose. And a dove. Dancing. With a curvaceous cabbage. Dawn that then demon. And chop. Chip. Xxxxx gravitational gibbons giving gratification xxxx hahahahah plaid pig pointing posts. Xxxxx cinematography z
A flea in a bag is not akin to a farmers market on a window sill but wide angled mirrors breathe many a basket bomb into a woven template if a footstool. Perching by a bathroom crevasse one ponders the many insecurities of a passing flying snail. For to shell is not to show. And shelter is decorated in a mindfully placed swirl. Bracket not a bucket. And brake no gear. It is an impossible wonder of a mile long coin that enters the golden highway at a junction aforementioned in a style magazine. Oh fabulous the floors will be nice and clean today for the mops are arriving in great multitude on many landing strips of lino,carpet, and laminate flooring too. A pretty cat sighs. For intrusive interrupted snoozing is not pleasant for a snoring meow. But mowing an eleven acre lawn is best performed with a five centimetre pair of scissors. Hahahahah silvery shrouds seeking secrecy hahahahaha moon painted boil xxxxx fastidiousness Z
Over six tons of gorilla shrapnel is the same gesture as throwing ten ton whales into a puddle. Wisely wary. Be not only a segment be a slice. And sluice dumps never chatter obscenities so never throw an ashtray in the air. Expected are the alternators arriving in horse drawn ships. Shooting shaping striving singing Singhalese singularly. And a plate balancing on a two centimetre tea cup in a unique dolls house. Rifle not a t-shirt. Purple berry holding hands with a dewberry then roll roll in the mighty surf. A sure way of finding a horseshoe in a rainbow arch then. Archetypical archaic antiquities. With an amphibian laugh. Shut all the doors. And ceilings. And do not bang into an open cupboard. For to look within a cupboard is to see and hear the shells. Cantering carnage coming. And a large baked bread kneeling by a pool. Pretty is not the writhing of a torso ripped in half. Nor is it the antics of a lemon lipped lady. Statement striving show. And a steamed lobster. Calibrate that. No. Militarisation
Oh how remarkable there is a milky star waving at us from the top left corner of the field. But templates are for idiots cried the ten centimetre bullock. Merely an eyed tooth. A sage. A mystic nightingale in a purple cloak. Don't be so pompous cried the dish of fried egg. I am a great wonder. A mish mashed assortment of yellow hue. In a flurry then. Flightless birds will and can soar. As to create is to design so don't argue with a culinary alchemist in a kiln. Breakfasts. Baskets. Ball. Ballooning. And breathe. One two three. In tutus in lines. On beaches. Draped. Draperies. Down. Downing. During. Coniferous. ***
Interesting scenic sway on swabs of society.
Portrayal of high fashion. Obs and such ilk have no place in the vista of kaleidoscopic train. Of amplified sexual sway.
Changing by the eras.
What would the eighteenth century say to such displays of flesh and loutish behaviours?
At this stage in humaity peasants rule the displays of street.
Oh such rancid awe. Chewing rat nails on a sluice dump.
Oh how enticing the aroma of bin.
With a deodorant of smog the land does smile under indoctrinated senses. Whilst the ten centimetre fat black and white bug plays a happy tune and the window shines its foreboding omen to the people of Seth.
It is possible to repair seams with the water from a washed up milk glass.
Oh how the frogs laugh and party under duvets of champion cabbages. Once they swirled to the ballroom bang.
EATEN.EGG.EXTRA.ENTWINNING.ENTER.ENTOMBED.ENERGY.ENSLAVED.ENCAPTURED.ENIGMATIC.ELITE.
Jack took Jill up the hill
To give O’ Jill a thrill
He put it in
She started to sing
Take it out; I’m not yet on the pill
Jack said, “I know what to do,”
“We’ll go to town and I’ll buy them for you.”
Twas around dawn
They saw a boy blowing a cow in the corn
It was, yes, bricky bad boy blue
Boy blue moved in a flash
And Blue and Jack met in a clash
Hit jack with a pale
Boy, did Jack yell and wail
His forehead had a 3 centimetre gash
Jack held his crown
As he fled away from the town
He bled from the head
And thought he was dead
He fainted on a hill which he came rolling down.
Blue and Jill got the pills not long after
She swallowed it down with some water
Blue and Jill did the biz
Jill’s hair was in a frizz
Her little secret was exposed by a laughter
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