A chap said with rather a smirk,
Go out if at home you can’t work –
Ride buses and planes,
Even bug-ridden trains …
Everyone thinks he’s a berk!
image: Dreamstime.com
source: agree from https://randomwordgenerator.com
Tag: humour
Nine Lives
Inspired by a reply to my previous post, I resolved to write an acrostic verse with just one word per line. Here is Michael Halliwell’s succinct poem, itself inspired by this charming photo:
Picture
Us
Sleepily
Surveying
You –
Come
And
Tickle
Purr-fect, isn’t it?
I think the art is in its simplicity. Often harder than it looks to marry grammatical sense and apt comedy in a few words!
So when I hit https://randomwordgenerator.com and got discovery, well, my quill wilted. So to speak. It’s not a very funny word.
But then again, just now, it’s not a very funny world.
I try to be hopeful, of course. But in case hope should fall short, this post ends with another cat picture.
Dare I suggest a caption competition? Or even some more one-word-per-line acrostic poems?
disaster
is
sudden
creation
of
variable
economic
responses
yesterday
images: Pamper My Pet and Reddit
no hiding place
going the rounds online game somebody outed sudden shame it bites back pursuit of fame
image: http://www.waitsel.com
source: gossip from https://randomwordgenerator.com
Too True!
So tell us the answer,
oh please
let us know –
unless it’s
too leftfield,
in which case, please go –
or else find a
new one that won’t stop the show!
And that would have been that if I hadn’t seen the news photos of empty supermarket shelves that used to stock toilet rolls and found a new solution acrostic coming to mind:
sometimes there’s a problem
of such magnitude that
little folks like
us must put our heads
together to
investigate a way
out and
not race one another to the, er, bottom …
images: betanews.com and Forbes
source: solution from https://randomwordgenerator.com
Noblesse Oblige?
In a mood to speak out – particularly after my previous post on pressure to remain silent in the unfair face of social repression – I paid a visit to https://randomwordgenerator.com and was pleased to see understand.
Big words call for big ideas, I reckon, even if they’re a little obvious …
ups and downs are necessaries –
no progress without contraries –
damn the pampered rich from birth
expecting as of right that Earth
reward their unearned cash with more
so deftly lifted from the poor –
try harder says the worklife coach
and should you pick the right approach
no ceiling keeps you from the stars –
drones nod smiley heads in borrowed cars
image: www.dailymail.co.uk
The Ones that Got Away!
A glance through thickened glass reveals Queer creatures drifting sadly by. Up and down they trail in shoals, As if they're here but don't know why. Ray, my flatmate, thinks they're lost - It seems they crawled from sea to sand - Underwater life they loved but Maybe not so good on land?
images: Dissolve and Flickr
source: aquarium from https://randomwordgenerator.com
Chemistry Lesson
Word Generator: Your word today is glue. Me: Urgh, sticky! WG: You don't have to interpret it literally, you know ... Me: Hunh? WG: Could be, say, the glue that holds a top band together. Me: You mean a contract? WG: Philistine! No, I mean the musical telepathy that distinguishes great bands from merely good ones! Me: Oh yeah, I know, that's when the band actually start looking around to see if there's a fifth member playing with them! WG: Not if they're a trio ... Me: Hey, I do the funny stuff! WG: Well, get on with it then!
going solo – fed the ego
lit the halo – lost the mojo
up & down – career a yoyo
ever after – just a sideshow
