With saltwater blood
The valiant mariners
Are bound to the sea
By unseen chains
And serve their
mistress
In sun and rain
But when gales blow
And storm and tempest
Batters and bloodies
They pray to the
master
To be carried to shore
And when land sits
Beneath their feet
They crave a deck
And a rolling sea
And are drawn back
To their mistress
In the autumn of my years
In the twilight of the
setting suns
Will I become that
which I despise?
A burden to my loved
ones
Darkness evades the light
It retreats into tight
corners
And hides just out of
reach
Where the light stops
short
And the darkness waits
Patiently biding its
time
As the day ebbs away
And the shadows
lengthen
Until the darkness
rules again
They’re the “in crowd”
The cool ones
The clique
Wearing the right
clothes
Saying the right
things
Defining cool
The un-cool sit
On the outside looking
in
Wishing to be “in”
They bully and barrack
And show off to the
crowd
The shallow crew
Sneering at cleverness
Shaming the boffins
In front of their
crowd
Soon they will know
They have no future
They’re the cool fools
Don’t be envious
Stay with your piers
Friendship rocks
Just stand fast
Stick with your
friends
That’s true cool
Bimbette texted Peaches "Windows
@ home, frozen - what should I do?"
Peaches texted back “use some de-icer
Or boiling water will probably do”
Bimbette “OK, computer went bang
And lights have fused
too"
After passing his driving test, a teenage boy,
Asked his dad if he
would buy him a car
Dad thought about it for
a while and replied
“If you do better at
school than you have so far,
Go to church every
Sunday without fail
And get a haircut. I
will buy you a car”
After a few months had
passed the boy
Asked his dad if he
would buy him a car
Dad thought about it
for a while and replied
“Well, you have
improved at school by far
And you’ve gone to
church every Sunday
But you still need a haircut,
so no car”
The boy replied,
“Since going to church
I have learned a very
great deal so far
Samson, John the
Baptist, Moses, and Jesus
All had long hair, so
we are on a par"
Dad smiled and said, “They may all have had
Long hair but none of
them had a car”
I knew the very moment that
The romance had died,
it was after
I drank from my wife’s
slipper
And almost choked on a
corn plaster
