Smile ~ it's contagious and fun.
Friends get together for a good laugh.
Life's meant to be enjoyed !
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 3rd place 2025
I have become a moaner,
Huffing, puffing, growling, groaner
I find it hard to bend and stretch
My dog is too old to 'Go fetch'
'You fetch yourself.' my old pooch said.
As he snuggled up in his doggy bed.
I totter outside to get the paper,
That's lying on the lawn
It's poured with rain, the newspaper is wet,
Dirty, tattered and torn,
It was beyond redemption
Too far gone to read
Another bone of contention
Just what I need.
I can hear the telephone ringing,
From inside the house
My ears are stinging
Where is my spouse?
I try my best to hurry,
To answer the phone
If someone doesn't answer it,
They will think we are not home.
It is no use calling my husband,
Because he is stone deaf.
Not only is he deaf, he is losing his mind,
If truth be told, we are two of a kind.
I must try not to grumble, mutter and complain,
I must get more positive if I want to stay in the game.
Life is what you make it. I understand why that is so,
To look on the bright side is the best way to go.
When the kids are complaining
'cause it won't stop raining,
To be stuck indoors just sucks.
Don't let them pout,
Instead point out,
It's lovely weather for ducks!
When you're feeling blue
'cause your bills are due,
And you've got more checks than bucks,
Don't take to drink,
Count to ten and think,
It's lovely weather for ducks!
When you've burned the toast
And ruined the roast
'cause you just can't cook for shucks,
Lift up your chin
And order in,
It's lovely weather for ducks!
When your spirit's poor
'cause your job's a bore,
Your career is at its crux,
Just smile and shrug,
Lots of dough in drugs,
But before your self-esteem self-destructs,
Please remember this bit,
Not all drugs are legit,
And besides that's a business for schmucks.
So stay on the right side,
And look on the bright side,
Somewhere,
It's lovely weather for ducks!
A loveable man was Janitor Stan
Ever willing to help to give and serve
A gentle man of modest plan
With never a protest, frown or reserve
Always saw the brighter side of life
Though his cards were not dealt from the top of the pile
In that testing game of blood and strife
Played them with a cheerful acceptance and smile
When his ship foundered in the South China Sea
Then held guest by the Empire of the Sun
With hosts of stern hospitality
He confronted his fate ‘til the contest was won
Later asked about pain and hardship faced
His reply: “it was a beautiful place”
L-ook on the bright side
E-liminating the darkness;
D-ay twenty-first October
E-rases the evening's mess.
L-ook on the bright side,
Y-es, on the positive result;
N-ot on the mistake, not on the wrong or fault.
D-ark side causes chaos,
U-sing its deceptive lies;
N-ight shadows bring doubt,
G-iving blindness to the eyes.
H-ow happy and nice to see
A-ll of the things that guide;
O-pen your eyes to sunrise, look on the bright side.
It's a wonder how we get through life's start
with tears flowing from the first depart
but still we take that breath and bravely forge ahead,
wondering what we could have done instead.
We cry, we shudder and we laugh,
we eat, we grow and pass a little gas;
we study and we learn then easily forget
just what the purpose of it all was, and yet -
we search for it, hold it briefly in our hands
grasping for love to be near where we stand;
but so quickly does the time flow steal it all away
and the past seems nothing but a game we played.
Hold on tight, you never know what is to come
perhaps the journey's just begun.
It's the only way to, you know!
My favorite funny reality song of all time.
Monty Python's Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_-q9xeOgG4
Sad beyond compare
I have no life to share
I walk this lonely road
Carrying a heavy load
Feeling all depress
I live with constant stress
Trying to do my best
Living in regress
Pain in my heart
Never feeling apart
Left out of the game
I have no name
As my dreams fade away
I exist in chains
In a burning home
All alone
I’m going blind
All the time
Light-headed and dizzy
Staying busy
The light of the day
Makes me pray
For the comforts of darkness
From the heartless
Maybe it just me
Trying to be
Someone free
Of falling debris
Burning eyes, weary heart
Waiting in part
To share the love
From God above
It’s hard to see
I can’t believe
This world can be
Such a beast
The rain taps on the window, the sky is dead and grey,
I explain to my children that we can't go out today,
No walking to the local shop to buy the boring food
the co-op where it's overpriced and all the staff are rude,
The t.v's on a children's show and out the music blares,
we have this on so often that we should have bought some shares
I change the childrens nappies and then I get them dressed
the youngest is quite willing though the eldest not impressed
the fire burns in the fireplace and the lamp lights up the room
a bright and cheery setting like a beacon in the gloom
I look around at my kids, playing and squealing with glee
and despite all the rain of the miserable day, there's no place I'd rather be!!
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