POEMS - With Tongue In Cheek

[maxine]

We had no Sun today.................just Cloudy skies all day

Oh dear Robert ..quite often i text my cousin who is in Halifax ..high on a hill ....and more often than not....they have cloud ....

[maxine]

May day sun is hot and bright here and bad for my allergies. We are in the upper 90's. There are various fires in Los Angeles at the moment and they are hard to contain because of the Sta. Ana winds. Yet really glad that it's a sunny day for my Dad's 83rd and brother's 53rd birthday today. Wish I could send you all some of this sunshine and heat!!!

Sorry missed this Eman!!! Hope they had a fab day!!! ...we have loads of May birthdays ...hubby 21 on the 10th ......it must be weird sharing the same day But then they don't know any different

...did the sun shine for them?

[ROBERT M.]

We had no Sun today.................just Cloudy skies all day

Oh dear Robert ..quite often i text my cousin who is in Halifax ..high on a hill ....and more often than not....they have cloud ....

We are on low ground Maxine ..............but we are too close to the East Coast, when there is an easterly flow the weather comes in from the North Sea.............which isn't the warmest of places .....................Eman, please sent some of your warmth in our direction

[maxine]

We had no Sun today.................just Cloudy skies all day

Oh dear Robert ..quite often i text my cousin who is in Halifax ..high on a hill ....and more often than not....they have cloud ....

We are on low ground Maxine ..............but we are too close to the East Coast, when there is an easterly flow the weather comes in from the North Sea.............which isn't the warmest of places .....................Eman, please sent some of your warmth in our direction

I think they might move south ...he is Kentish but family Yorkshire ..his son was born in Essex but they moved yorks when he was a baby ....and all my dad's family Yorkshire so all my cousins are from Yorkshire apart from Howard! ...

[keithgood838]

I remember seeing a photo, from Michele's picture library,
of her wearing a tee-shirt emblazoned with the self-deprecating
message: Monro is an anagram of moron.
It put me in mind of equally self-effacing lines by our stalwart,
shrinking-violet friend, Anon:

See the happy moron
He doesn't give a damn,
I wish I were a moron
My God, perhaps I am.

[Eman]

LOL Keith!!! Love it!!

[keithgood838]

We strive to titillate your literary taste buds, Eman.
I wonder what you will make of the following:

WEB of INTRIQUE
(In homage to the Bard)

Old internet is nothing like the sun,
keeping a slack rein on his satellites;
his extreme mavericks the Wild West run
and bring shame on his stalwart acolytes.
Trolls with impunity dispense their bile
on poor uncomprehending cyberspace,
while scammers employing credible guile
fleece prey then Trojan horse another place.
As heavy doors to education's vaults
swing open to instant information,
young minds are poisoned by odious faults
of porn sites and degrading predation.
If this be error and upon me proved,
no scribe to satirise was ever moved.

Keith Good

[Eman]

Ha Keith, very very true and captures the internet experience to a tee!!

[maxine]

it certainly does ...a great verse again Keith

[keithgood838]

Thank you Eman and Maxine. I have adapted the opening line
of sonnet 130 and the last two lines of sonnet 116. However
I'm sure both of you know that.
Keith

[keithgood838]

Most of us think of Shakespeare in the context of serious writing,
yet threads of humour embroider his work: Much Ado About Nothing
is very funny and A Comedy Of Errors is a farce about two male sets
of twins, separated at birth, turning up in the same city on the same
with hilarious results. The following comic verse is from The Tempest:

A SEA SONG

The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
The gunner and his mate,
Loved Mall, Meg, and Marian and Margery,
But none of us cared for Kate;
For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sailor, 'Go hang!'
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:
Then to sea boys, and let her go hang.

William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)

[Eman]

LOL, Keith in college our English professor told us to search for the humour in Shakespeare's work and we were dumbfounded when he pointed out the same examples you did. We all thought that Shakespeare was a serious guy only to find he had a sense of humour. Thanks for reminding me!!

[keithgood838]

Hi Eman. Today England is in the grip of election fever, though at my local
polling station it was more like a slight sniffle. We are choosing new local
councillors and members of the European parliament.
I am reminded of the lines by your American compatriot poet:

THE POOR VOTER ON ELECTION DAY

The proudest now is but my peer,
The highest not more high,
Today, of all the weary year,
A king of men am I.
Today alike are great and small,
The nameless and the known,
My palace is the people's hall,
The ballot box my throne.

John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807-1892)

[maxine]

Love it Keith ......Shakespeare it seems was an ordinary fella with a fab talent

[keithgood838]

Maxine, 154 love sonnets, a most restrictive verse form; as you know
the sonnet comprises 14 lines of 10 syllables in iambic pentameter.
Quite apart from the magical plays.
If this isn't at genius at work I don't know what is.