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by Gyppo
Wed Jul 05, 2023 2:17 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Garden Tour
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

Re: Garden Tour

It's like the Halloween pumpkin lamps still rotting and oozing on doorsteps a week after the event.  Do these things become invisible to the owner?

I always take down my May Day votive offering  at the end of the day.  Leaving it up overnight seems wrong.

Gyppo 
by Gyppo
Wed Jul 05, 2023 2:10 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Some Mornings
Replies: 8
Views: 13039

Re: Some Mornings

I love this description, can sense the brooding potential in the supposedly extinct volcano. Quote:   Some days the silence is palpable. Like the silence which can suddenly descend in a previously noisy pub when someone asks, very quietly, very calmly, "Would you care to repeat that?" Nice one, Inda...
by Gyppo
Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:52 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Garden Tour
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

Re: Garden Tour

Indar. The ornaments get more and more tacky each year.  There's a house not far from me where they have some very poor Christmas ornaments they set up about five years ago, and they just sit there, in very slowly decaying plastic glory, al year around.  The sun has bleached most of the colour out o...
by Gyppo
Mon Jul 03, 2023 3:33 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Garden Tour
Replies: 9
Views: 11100

Re: Garden Tour

A wry comment on many aspects of modern life not just garden globes.  A fine picture, showing what's missing.

Gyppo
by Gyppo
Sun Jun 18, 2023 3:43 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: When I Was
Replies: 8
Views: 10048

Re: When I Was

I like that ;-)

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by Gyppo
Sun Jun 18, 2023 12:17 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: When I Was
Replies: 8
Views: 10048

Re: When I Was

Being irreligious shouldn't automatically be seen as  being an enemy of religion.  Just that you don't want to live your life by that particular narrow set of rules .  There may be another path which suits, rather than full on atheism. Dad was brought up as a Baptist, but he never 'banged on' about ...
by Gyppo
Sun Jun 18, 2023 5:15 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: When I Was
Replies: 8
Views: 10048

Re: When I Was

A fine musing, Indar.  Thoroughly enjoyed the imagery as well, picturing the small child huddled in the 'safer' end of her bed, reaching out for something she desperately wanted to be there. And the adult version, still clearly spiritual in the presence of nature, ticking off one more thing on what ...
by Gyppo
Sat Jun 17, 2023 3:18 am
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic:  Well Scuff My Shoes!
Replies: 9
Views: 9181

Re:  Well Scuff My Shoes!

Since bankers wear ties and those wankers went to schools with school uniforms, called suits when you are an adult, and so many of those bankers are screwign us right left and centre, the only just intelligent conclusion anyone could come to is 'Never trust a man in a suit.' Dad always said you sho...
by Gyppo
Sun Jun 11, 2023 4:10 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Quantum Physicists at a Bar discussing the Multiverse.
Replies: 8
Views: 9463

Re: Quantum Physicists at a Bar discussing the Multiverse.

My neighbours must wonder why I'm laughing out loud at 11 pm.

A fine romp through language and concepts.

Multiverse indeed.

Maybe seminal instead of seminol?

Gyppo
by Gyppo
Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:34 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Rock Climber's Hands
Replies: 3
Views: 5085

Re: Rock Climber's Hands

It's certainly helped. I'm more upright than I was yesterday.  Before the treatment I looked as if I'd been kicked in on my right hand side.  My Grandaughter said I looked like a letter 'C'.  She offered to 'kick me in' from the other side to see if it would straighten me up. ;-) The Chiro Lady warn...