when we get a tempest in Canada
it is usually in the form of a snow blizzard
the winds are strong
at times gale force
howling and
prolonged
the snow falling heavy
and sustained
with deep snowdrifts
driving is dangerous
walking unsafe
stay home we are told
keep flashlights and candles on hand
incase of power failure . . .
there is an uproar outside my window today
my world is in chaos
trees are bending
window panes are rattling
oh, what an upheaval
but .... I am warm and cozy
with my cat purring on my knee
and a fireplace cracking and flickering
and a nice hot cup of tea
and there is no way I am going out there . . .
a photo moment for the pretty blonde singer
she is hustled into a tent with soldiers who pretend to be happy
this is Viet Nam 1969
They have seen many young men killed and maimed
But at this moment they paste on smiles
pretending all is well
incase their loved ones see this photo
knowing it might be the last time they might see them in any photo
the pretty blonde singer stands sassily in her white gogo boots
knowing nothing of the horrors these men have seen
she is hustled out as fast as she was hustled in
a five-minute photo op
propaganda to try to pretend it was not as bad as it was
If you were to ask me
Be the one to catch me, before i take the fall
You'd be the only one waiting, afterall
For whence i open my mouth and
Spill a sea of pills tinged with reddened liquor
I think you'd listen, then
If i took advice from any voice, it'd say 'give up'
But then again the only advice i ever took was the gurgles from down below
Onwards, outwards, suck inwards and hollow
If i gouged the gurgles, they'd say 'continue'
They'd count on me as i count every zero
They'd hold onto my head while i clutch the bottle
But, you'd catch me.
Incase i couldn't catch me
You'd advise me to give up
But i'd have fallen from your grasp
Onwards, downwards, i'd ignore the numbers from the liquor
For they'd spill from my mouth ever quicker
I'd have lost count, either way.
Hey, what did you want to say?
It's always a battle,
Everyday is,
Always a battle,
Between life and death,
I forgot something,
I didn't check before leaving,
I didn't look before going,
Everyday's like this,
I didn't eat,I overeat,
I overslept, I under slept,
I haven't moved, yet I'm so tired,
Always like this, everyday is,
Incase you're asking,
What depression looks like,
It is like this,
Everyday is,
Laura is a shopkeeper
Who’s selling many things
From a plastic dovalacky
To brilliant diamond rings
She’ll unload on anyone
Just anything that’s handy
An umbrella coloured blue
Or sticky sugar candy
Incase your feeling teary
Hankies you can buy
Or maybe feeling hungry,
Ham sandwich she’ll supply
Looking for one item?
Coming out with more?
Probably now you’re penniless
From entering Laura’s store
Ugly cement gray howling city wolves
More dangerous than their county cousins
Tearing families apart with contracts
Filling office workers up with impossible tasks
Tearing heads off colleagues during appointments
Ugly cement gray howling city wolves
Running city blocks to work in tennis shoes
Keeping shiny Florsheim in their desk drawers
a loaded derringer bouncing in their pocket
Incase an indigent asks them for money
Ugly cement gray howling city wolves
In San Francisco, New York, and Chicago
Mobbing, killing, raping the innocents
Not seeing people, no hellos on the street
More dangerous than their country cousins
Why this is my tale
Of my family tree and roots
The what and where
My Gaelic Celtic
Surname origins came
Straight out of my Liverpool home
Retracing my heritage right back to
The emerald island of Eire
Galway Bay
And the Wild Atlantic Way
Which paved the way
Where the
Ferocious O'Flaherty
Clan initially began and surname came
To Aughnanure Castle
On the shores of the Drimneen river
Where I myself have never previously been
Which I aim to put right and address
Because as they say and it's said
In order to know where you are going
You need at 1st to know
There fom whence you came
If no other reason
Apart from maybe just incase
In death you may well be returned
Indexed alphabetically under ones surname
Mine begining with the letter
" F '"
Moto and Meaning
Fortune Favors the Brave
Bright Rulers
Ferocious in both
Spirit and namesake
Hitherto
Giving and receiving
Advice
In regards to life Excetera
This may actually help and be of use
And the most crucial and important of all
Try your best to be comfortable in your
own skin and company
So you aren't afraid of being alone
And are then able to wait for the right
One or person to come along
So you don't end up rushing into
And making rash judgements
When it comes to your love life
Just incase you end up with someone
Who may not in fact love you back
And had no intention of staying with you
And it eventually ends up with you
In the family way
Having a child with them
With them being your child's other half
And you having to co - parent
And trying your level best to get along
Because you have no other choice
If only for your child's sake
Who you now unfortunately
Have come to regret
And now wished you had never ever met
And wonder what on earth you were thinking
Or possessed you to go out with them
Or found attractive about them in the 1st place
Least of all their personality
Or lack thereof
*To Her*
I haven't told you yet
How much you mean to me
How much i admire you
I haven't told you yet
About all the happiness you bring
About all your beauty
I haven't told you yet
That you are the love of my life
That you mean the world to me
Just incase i do
I want you to know that
You are the best thing
That ever happened to me
I love,adore and treasure you
You are the source of my joy
The shadow of my heart
Note this, you are really
The strength and power of my soul
Till the grave claims its rights.
The government say isolate stay inside don't go out your gate.
Cannot go shopping or into the street stay away from family and friends that you meet.
So I sit alone and stare at the floor what should I do if there's a knock on the door.
Whith all these thoughts going around in my head would it be worth getting up
Out of bed.
Thay say we can go out now but I think I will wait just incase I have to
Re isolate.
Your mother must be ohh so proud
of you
Of all the complex things and thoughts
you have to say
Choose to write down and post
Oh how I bet she must share them
with all the other countless mother
stork's
Have them printed and placed above
her fireplace in gothic crucifix frames
Just incase the devil pop's in for
afternoon tea and a good old catch
up and chinwag
Again just to see how his number 1
little so and so is doing
In regards to how it's going stirring
the pot and raising temperature's up
He's even brought a few golden stars
just for you
If you have been a very , very bad boy
and your numbers are up
And if they aren't I have even brought a
list of suggestions of other stupid
offensive things
That should work as well
Last night a great heaviness
fell through the roof
dropping like a boat anchor into my dreaming mind.
It was sentient,
a being as hard as steel and massively stupid.
I felt its dumb confusion, its awkward alarm,
I winced as it lumbered around my head-space
crashing into my own startled thoughts
though I realized on some level of awareness
that I was still living in a bad dream.
The brutishly bulky being wanted answers,
I wanted answers, the dream had no answers.
Eventually that solid hulking creature gave up
turning my inner-state over and smashing
my neuronal workings over its big stony head.
Oblivion took us both.
When daylight unveiled the long night
I looked about me
the bedroom was not ransacked
but my brain was blinking on ‘check engine’ light,
and something was still asleep
on the backseat of my mind.
Tonight I will take a strong drink and 2 Ambien
incase its guttural snoring, or its chaotic dreams
wakes me up again.
Why do Ghosts never seem to smile
In picture framed tributes encased
hanging on display front and center
on a living room wall
Is it just incase the outward glass
facade crack's and break's
Or makes the frame from whatsoever
bound it to the wall in the first place
Until it is eventually nothing more than
a black and white picture entombed in
broken glass and frame
Clinging helplessly onto a bare wall
not even hung up straight
Is that why perhaps maybe ghosts
don't ever seem to smile
As they know exactly what the future
holds in store for everyone long after
death is through with all of us
And unfortunately fair warning there
is really not a single thing worth cracking
or smiling about to say in regards to that
Apart from never being able even once
dead
To hang or ever mend a broken frame or
cracked glass again
So as to put a smile back on a Ghost
from future past
( To be sang to the tune of - " If You're Happy and You
Know It... " )
Here's a fun little fact you'll find quite cute,
Some nuts that we call, " Nuts" are really fruit!
The Pistachio, Cashew
Almonds, Walnuts, Pecans too
Are some nuts that we call, " Nuts " - but they are fruit!
And these nuts that we call, " Nuts " - though they are fruit
Are not the only ones that leave us duped.
Peanuts are culprits too!
What we eat, we have no clue.
And in Botany these nutty fruits are Drupes.
Though these fruits hold on to their nutty veneer,
There are genuine Nuts out there, have no fear!
True Nuts, it may sound odd
Are protective, hard shelled pods
Containing fruit and seed of plants that hold them dear.
And just incase you're not confused enough,
Let me fill you in about the Coconut...
It's a seed, a fruit, a nut
Also healthy for the gut
So not all foods that are called, " nut " are really Nuts!
Written 25th January 2023
Use your pain or it will use you
Make your pain your best friend
Don't see them as an enemy
It got need
You are responsible to feed them
Else they will feed you
And if they do
Then you got your self to blame
When you catch the feeling
Use your pain or it will use you
Don't isolate your pain
Take them In yes
Accept their part
Cos it will not last forever
Soon it will go
But never forget it experience
Never forget the lesson it taught you
Never forget how it got into you
Never forget how you felt
Use this to your advantage
Use it as a power shield
This is life
Incase you chose to remain stronger
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