Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line - For The Weekend

train ride to nowhere
relentlessly moving on
de vleigende hollander

memories of those rides
watching the lights whizzing by
clattering all night

the sad whistle like
a piercing cry of an owl
still haunts my dreams

Goodbye To Three Word Wednesday

3WW - memorise goodbye haphazard






we make haphazard connections with bloggers
visiting the same sites year in year out
we don't need to memorise the code
we never think it is going to end
and then like all things
it  finally does and we must say
GOODBYE





Thank you Thom

War And Peace

this epic novel
has been gracing my bookshelves
gathering dust for decades
when it is not used for propping up
a broken window in my study

there comes a time in a life
when one has to face up
to certain realities




it is unlikely that
i will ever dance
with gorgeous uniformed russians
named vronsky or alexei

it is unlikely that
i will ever attend a wedding
where the bridal waltz is shostakovitch

no one is ever going
to play the  balalaika  and sing  to me
in russian
or fix the window

'War and Peace'
will probably sit on my shelves
unopened
for at least another decade
and the window ?
maybe in another life



Midweek Motif - Poets United

Dame Edna

posture slovenly hereafter gladiola suffer
restaurant shake immure cloudburst radiate
MLMM  - Wordle 161





thank the hereafter
dame edna
of slovenly posture
shaking a gladiola
looking as if she has suffered
from decades of entombment
immured in a  melbourne restaurant
radiating a cloudburst of a  smile
has finally retired

Haiku Horizons

the passing of time
don't be sad- you're still cuddly
someone's warm teddy

Neil Young - Old Man

Dear
Success Stories From My Student Days

where are you now?
self assured long hair'd intellectual habitues
of inner city pubs and shared terraces
discussing free love existentialism
the price of hash and politics
watched shyly
by a wide eyed ingenue
straight from the convent
sitting in the corner
thinking you must be all geniuses


i see some of  you occasionally
now serious grey haired old men in suits
stalwart conservative establishment
being interviewed on tv
wondering how that happened
is that what growing up is?
i'm growing old
not growing up



Signed

a late bloomer
chook lover caught back flip
in arrested development
woudn't swap places for quids
Miss Brainless Big Heart

If a man is not a socialist by the age of 20 he has no heart. If  he is not a conservative by the age of 40, he has no brains - Winston Churchill

Yoga

the lotus position
padmasana
best for meditation
best pose to adopt
for a good death
they say



me
i prefer
the foetal position
under a big fur rug
in my comfy bed
best for everything
including
the long sleep

Midweek Motif - Poets United