Friday, 16 April 2021

LOST SOULS

 

The selfish

Self-deluding

Act of release

At the end

The point of serenity

Marking an end

And a beginning

For the one

Peace

A perfect painless peace

An end of heart ache

Physical pain

Emotional sorrow

Loneliness perhaps

For those remaining

Pain begins

Picking up threads

Of a self-extinguished life

Tying loose ends

Cleaning up the mess

Hating them

While mourning them

Loving them

While despising them

Coming to terms

With the loss

DAME THORA HIRD

 

It was on the news that I heard

About the loss of dame Thora Hird

She died at the age of ninety-one

She always reminded me of my mum

I will really miss dear Thora Hird

She was ordinary, yes that’s the word

Thora Hird was down to earth I’d say

The lass who came from Morecambe bay

She trod the boards since a babe in arms

But no pomposity was one of her charms

With a glint in her eye, she would say

In that warm and conspiratorial way

The best thing to come out of Yorkshire

Was the road to her beloved Lancashire

SPLITTING UP

 

In Norwich at my local pub, I sat

After a pint and a couple of gins

And contemplated relationships

With my muckers for their sins

“I’m divorcing my sweetheart

And soul mate” I tell my friends

“There will be no animosity” I add

“And we will always stay cousins”

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957)

 

“An Affair to Remember” is a classic romantic drama Directed and written by Leo McCarey.

A French playboy Nickie Ferrante (Cary Grant) full of continental charm and an American, former nightclub singer, Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) meet aboard a ship.

She sees him as just another playboy and he sees her as stand-offish, but inevitably they fall in love.

After visiting his Grandmother (Cathleen Nesbitt) on the island of Madeira he planned to travel to New York to marry a rich heiress, which has been well publicized, as have his many antics and affairs, and Terry was returning home to her long-time boyfriend Kenneth Bradley (Richard Denning).

However on the crossing their plans change, but he has a poor track record relationship wise and no history of working for a living so in order to give him the chance to earn an honest living and prove himself, which would also give them time to deal with their current relationships.

So, they agree to distance themselves but arrange to reunite six months later on top of the Empire State building.

In the meantime, he returns to painting and is reasonably successful at it and she becomes a music teacher.

On the agreed date, Nickie is waiting patiently for Terry, who is racing to join him however fate intervenes resulting in misunderstanding and heartbreak and only fate can correct its intervention to save their relationship.

WHATS IN A NAME (1)

Does anyone know does Robin Cook?

Did anyone see what Barry Took?

Does anyone listen to John Peel?

Did anyone else see David Steel?

SHAKESPEARE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING, ANTHONY

What Elvis Presley did lives after him

The king is now interred with his tones

So let it be from Caesar’s

In notorious Vegas

Were Elvis the king was tremendous

HAMLET’S ANAGRAM – TO BE OR NOT TO BE # 1

In one of the Bard's

Best thought of tragedies

Our insistent hero

Hamlet

Queries on two fronts

About how life turns rotten