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My Monday Metrical Musings #238

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A to Z -- Alliterations Gone Loco! Acidic ArgumentsBombastic BombardmentsCataclysmic CatastrophesDevastating DestructionsErratic Elections Flame-throwing FanaticismGreedy GodpersonsHorrendous HolocaustsInane InjunctionsJokesters Jabbering Killing Kismet Licentious Lovers Madcap ManicsNarcissistic Neanderthals Obnoxious Ombudsmen Promiscuous PartnersQuixotic QueersRapacious RepugnantsSelf-serving SovereignsTariff-touting Tyrants Unleashed UltimatumsVicious VeteransWicked WhimpsXeric XenophobesYucky YoungstersZestful Zombies

My Monday Metrical Musings #237

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Rounding Corner 25 Before we both could blink our eyesWe’ve rounded Corner 25Who knew it took but a moment of time We’re here still walking this fine line Our lives so deeply intrinsically tied No way we could slip and slideYes of course we rose and fellThese lines and wrinkles, oh can't you tell? No … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #237

My Monday Metrical Musings #236

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I Suppose I... I suppose. I suppose Ishould put the books on my lapPick one up so it can be read I suppose Ishould resume my workingStop making excuses and stalling I suppose Ioughta plan for our dateThe all-important silver fate But surely no one'sGonna really mindIf I take some time off to unwind? Do … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #236

My Monday Metrical Musings #235

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Life In A Time Of Transit MovingDustingMoving Life in motionLife slipping out the doorLife that was once yours PackingWrappingPacking Life in big and small boxesLife in little packetsLife sealed tight in dockets SobbingBreathingSobbing Life under a different skyLife in suspended timeLife in turpentine SquattingLimberingSquatting Life in tiny goodbyesLife in constant exitLife in a time of … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #235

My Monday Metrical Musings #234

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In Time I Will Time to breathe deepTo slow downFeel my chest rise and fallShut the world out Need the spaceTo find it againSanityTranquilitySerendipity I can't be longAmong the articulateThe pompous and loudI need me my quiet Where can I go?Soon I'll be living in borrowed spaceAt the mercy of anotherWhere can I go? To … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #234

My Monday Metrical Musings #223

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Boxes of My Life Everywhere I turn nowI see boxes of my lifeSome my kids'. Some my wife's. Boxes that holdBooks. Memories. Photos. Treasuries. Boxes containing meaningsAt the seams near bursting.Nostalgias gleaming. My heart is also grievingAs I bid farewell to souvenirsIn boxes for disposing. Boxes of my lifeHolding joys and strife.Compartmentalised. BoxesBoxesBoxes Sealing my … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #223

My Monday Metrical Musings #222

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A Month To Say Goodbye The boxes scattered everywhereRemind me the time is nighDays go by so very fastWe're now a month to goodbye! Each box contains a memoryEvery one a piece of our past25 years we've lived hereWe thought it would last and last The books especially I long to keepEach one a special … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #222

My Monday Metrical Musings #221

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Of Turtles and Moving House Of late I've been dreamingAnd sleeping pretty bad I'm remembering insane dreamsOf large slimy turtles Swimming down mud streams Of rented apartments just before a classSo I can change and freshen upThese dreams make no sense(Then again, when have dreams ever?)I just know they've been more vividAnd they're stealing my … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #221

My Monday Metrical Musings #220

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Attention Stolen! Attention! Attention!We're not paying attentionTo the fact we're losing our attentionTo nefarious "focus thieves" out to stealAnd trade our attention Our times are being suckedInto an endless vortex of rushing Waves after waves spiralling spirallingWe've no time to pause and process what givesAnd what's being taken from each one of us Attention stolenConcentration … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #220

My Monday Metrical Musings #218

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He read The Ilyiad at 14 He read The Ilyiad at 14Not once but thrice I had to blinkI said that just ain't possibleWere you mad with nothing else offering? Surely there must have been otherEasier books to attemptLike Robinson Crusoe or Moby Dick?What?! You also read the Odyssey?!! And did you say The Old … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #218