After many hiccups along the way,
My faith in flying cars has been rewarded,
The promises given in the sixties,
That got buried alive in the seventies,
That almost ran out of air in the eighties,
That got dug up in the nineties,
That got left behind at the dawn of the twenty first century,
That were rediscovered a decade ago,
Have now been given the green light.
Now all we need to do is embrace them,
As a means to save the planet,
And kiss goodbye to the need for even more roads to nowhere,
At a cost to economies everywhere.
Categories:
rewarded, beauty, blessing, celebration, christmas,
Form: Burlesque
For two weeks my wife has nagged
at me to mow the grass.
“Two weeks!” I said, “That can’t be right,”
but time does quickly pass.
So to get back in her good books,
I had to make a solemn vow,
that I will mow the grass tomorrow,
because I’m watching telly now.
She mumbled something ‘neath her breath
like I’ve often heard her do,
and I gather that she called me lazy
between the odd choice word or two.
But a bloke is entitled to unwind
by relaxing with the TV.
I just wish she’d get up off her backside
and start preparing me tea.
To drop a hint I pushed on the remote,
flicked the telly on to S-B-S,
because I know the programs on there
to the wife don’t really impress.
But the program that’s currently aired,
is deemed as a medical show
where the patients are on life support …
kept alive and don’t even know.
I said to me dear darling wife
indicating on to the screen,
“I don’t want to live in a vegetable state,
dependent upon a machine.”
So without one word she stood up.
I thought she was gunna get tea,
but she walked the opposite way,
and unplugged the bloody TV.
Categories:
rewarded, humor,
Form: Rhyme
slow slide into love
loneliness is forgotten
happiness now rules
melancholy abandoned
patience fully rewarded
Categories:
rewarded, happiness, love,
Form: Tanka
Categories:
rewarded, faith,
Form: Free verse