Life can be a bore at times
feel the need for a change
away in the country with fresh air
maybe near a village with no stairs
There's a little place in the English Lakes
down in South Lakes, Grange-over-Sands
so quiet and peaceful, a real delight
love it there, it makes me a real fan
Sitting on the coast with lovely views
such stirring walks to keep fit
such quietness brings such peace
watch the ducks there as I sit
My cottage suits me fine
love its divine location
relax on the front veranda
read poetry for particular occasions
Dialogue 1
Plato: Dog one, did you know that the moon you see is not the perfect moon?
Diogenes: The moon shines or shies away, twice a month. What a wonderful clock!
Dialogue 2
Plato: A perfect city exists where human perfection is achieved.
Diogenes: I am still looking for one good man. The forest suits me fine.
Dialogue 3
Plato: Dog one, come and join us in drink and merriment.
Diogenes: The fields are in bloom.
Dialogue 4
Plato: Precisely, man is a featherless biped being.
Diogenes: Here is this plucked chicken; your man.
I am not getting any younger
Yes I already lived my
Younger days
A long time ago
Now I am already
An elderly man
I live a very simple life
That my Father gave to me
Many years ago
The simple life suits me fine
I'm senile, demented, a has been, a dud,
At least that's the story, the Republican fad,
Yet little they know in their haste to throw dirt,
That they're helping my cause with their views so absurd.
Each arrow they fly with anger and speed
Is akin to a child that as yet doesn't read,
It has no direction it lands off its mark,
Its aim misaligned, a shot in the dark.
But let them continue, this path suits me fine,
For while they're distracted I follow my line
Of making great changes, passing new laws,
Pushing them through despite the known flaws.
My ace up the sleeve I've yet to pull out,
The one that will make my enemies shout,
Trump’s just my ticket to another 4 years
Flooding Republicans in a torrent of tears.
So let him continue to posture and shout,
Instilling in voters that lingering doubt,
The choice never clearer between him and me
And just like the last time I’ll win out you'll see.
Happy Yalda,
longest night of year
just suits me fine, in no mood
for the sun today that intrudes
on my darkness, spreading its eagle wings
like a shadowy figure, watching the
bonfire by the beach with
impudent curiosity.
May good time comes to all
every day!
I can’t see my dentist and I’ve got dire halitosis,
with distancing I hope that nobody will notice!
When we're outdoors we must keep 2 meters apart,
this suits me fine when I drop a huge smelly fart!
At the supermarket there’s an enormous queue,
I hope the queue's much shorter for the ladies loo!
Bert's eating through his large pasta mountain
he stockpiled so much of that there’s no doubtin!
Bert’s barber’s closed, now he resembles a yeti,
entangled in his beard is meat and spaghetti!
Fred’s wife made him a mask from her old bra,
She’s 46 double d, I think she’s gone a little too far!
I’m fed up of constant repeats on the tv
especially as I pay a huge tv licence fee!
Sal's so sad she can't go to the gym
she now has 'sexercise' thrice daily with Jim
Jim's delighted with this state of play
He's praying for the lockdown to stay!
05/07/20
My home is neon-friend to the idiocy degree.
I am sure when people barge in, they think me mad.
Which suits me fine
For there will be less barging.
They need to stay on their side of the river.
If I need them, I will pick up the phone and call.
If they need me, they had better think hard about it.
For my phone is off unless I want to make a call, which is seldom.
Many homes are feuillemort. Dull orange, dull brown, duller yellow.
This is not my home.
My home lights up like New Year's Eve's Madison Square Garden.
My home is neon-friendly to the idiocy degree.
I could not live here if it were any other way.
I could not live anywhere if I could not take my neons with me.
I certainly could not live in an old folk's home.
I consider them social clubs for the non-private ones.
death shall have no dominion
Dominion of Canada
Canada goose
goose egg
egg salad
salad days
days of our lives
lives in the balance
balance the budget
budget rent a car
karmaloop
loopmasters
Masters of the Universe
universal love
love and hate
hate your guts
guts but no brains
brains blown out
out of our minds
mindset
set your watch
watch TV
vegan pizza
pizza crust
crust of bread
bread and water
water bottle
bottle of beer
beer Vikings
Viking invasion
invasion of privacy
sea to shining sea
Seattle, Washington
washing clothes
clothes make the man
maneater
eater of flesh
fleshtone
tone it down
down the drain
drain clog
clogged sink
sink or swim
swimsuits
suits me fine
fine dining
dining out
outcast
cast a shadow
shadow
cast
Tell
me not
how to think
Above all else
don't attempt to make
me conform to the 'norm'
I won't perform in your form
For individuality
is my strength and customary song
Freedom suits me fine. It's where I belong.
I never want to be ninety,
forty two suits me fine,
but I guess i'll feel quite different
when I am eighty nine.
My hanging-‘round-the-house attire
Is comfy, loose and old.
When wearing it, I’m not the most
Attractive to behold.
Yet when I’m settled for the day
To laze or do some chores,
My clothes are those that I would never
Wear when I’m outdoors.
These outfits once were new and of
A certain year’s design,
But they’ve been put to pasture and
Their new life suits me fine!
Oh troubled girl
who hides her face,
beneath the trouble
she can’t erase.
She stands alone
almost with distaste,
at the others
her gender based.
I feel not woman
if that what woman be,
I am not a man
I must be a tree.
A tree I am
without a doubt,
these knots and twists
in side me shout.
My skin is bark
and hardend that
within, the sap
can flow about.
Though graceful branches
the wind will blow,
my feet seem fixed
to the earth below.
A tree has no face
to look upon,
That suits me fine
my face is gone.
I need not hide
from troubled tout,
a faceless tree
a face without
I have a ridiculously large head,
I think I’d opt for a smaller one instead.
Oh, sure, you say that it suits me fine,
That’s because yours isn’t near as big as mine.
I bet that it weights at least thirty pounds,
It looks even bigger than it sounds.
When I lay it down on my waterbed,
A tsunami rises so my wife has said.
When I go to try on winter hats,
The clerk gives me ones with ventilation slats,
That way when it’s not on sitting my dome,
It can be used as a guest room for my home.
My giant head is entirely too big,
Someday archeologists will venture on dig,
They’ll think that I came from the highland,
On the west end of Easter Island.
Little kids stare up at my noggin,
They think it could be used for a toboggan.
Or a shed to hold random hodgepodge,
That clutters things up in their dad’s garage.
Don’t tell me that it’s due to my intellect,
It makes your judgment sound suspect.
It’s because my brain is fashioned like a brick,
And my skull is so very, very thick.
Prayer
Subtle Lord I ask for me,
That I should be reborn for eternity,
resurrection, suits me fine, any color any clime,
on me death bed set me free,
jerk my spirit out of me,
agree I do, to come again,
poor old memory gone and then,
baby mullet swimming see,
baby Johnson is it he,
then there I be.
Sponsor frank herrera
Contest Name Compose a Prayer
I float up in the airway up high
It’s like a drug and I’m always high
I don’t want to come down can’t you see
I enjoy it too much I’m in ecstasy
Your love makes me fly and it suits me fine
I here with you but I’m always on cloud nine
I live in the atmosphere looking down on earth
Some people find it strange but to me its all the worth
I don’t need wings to move around
Just one kiss from you and it makes me bound
Your love makes me fly and it suits me fine
I here with you but I’m always on cloud nine
One hug from you sets me free
Beyond this world into far off galaxy
One word from you or even a verse
Will send me in orbit traveling the universe
Your love makes me fly and it suits me fine
I here with you but I’m always on cloud nine
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