Thursday 6 October 2011

A poem for National Poetry Day


 First, some provenance:-  
Today on Facebook
 First post- 12hours ago
I might try to write a poem for National Poetry Day. Don't hold your breath- current ETA is 11.59pm..............
 
·  update: 11 hours ago
Got notebook, searching for favourite pencil.


  
· update: 9 hours ago
checking Twitter for inspiration.



· update: 8 hours ago
Jeremy Kyle on ITV2



· update: 7 hours ago
think I might pop to the corner shop for some chocolate......



· update: 6 hours ago
my legs need shaving



· update: 5 hours ago
why are my socks all similar but none of them actually seem to match? I'd better get the sock drawer sorted..........



· update: 4 hours ago
making progress. Well, started. Had a good idea, anyway. Now need to leave it for a bit to take our mother for her birthday chinese all-you-can-eat treat. May be some time.






· update: 22 minutes ago
back home now. After we got back to our mother's from the chinese all-you-can-eat we had a lovely chat and she read out her funeral plan to me. Now I'll get on with it before National Poetry Day actually ends.



· update: 20 minutes ago
I'll get on with it as soon as the Taylor/Nicholson darts match is finished




Update: 2 minutes ago
Done! Before the estimated ETA as well. Sharing link to blog post in a few minutes. Well, I hope it was worth the wait. Hello? Where is everybody? Anyone there? Oh no! Don’t say they got fed up of waiting. Bloody Hell, I’ve spent ALL DAY working on this......



Oh well .......



National Poetry Day 
 

For me it’s a whole day off work day
A winnie-the-pooh style of blustery day
It’s a rag-and-bone man in the street day
A bit weird being home in mid-week day


Its goodbye to ‘Palin for President’ day
And a good-riddance-too-we-all-say day
Ninety-nine percent march in New York day
And the media tries to ignore (again) day


It’s the rich buggers making a mint day
and pay off your debts (though you’re skint) day
It’s Cameron being a (k)nob day
Oh hang on that’s actually every day


It’s writing a poem for National Poetry Day day
An I-don’t-think-that-that-really-scanned day
A not going quite as I’d planned day
And a hope-that-you’ll-all-understand day


It’s May in a flap with a cat day
A ‘tear up the Human Right’s Act’ day
A loan sharks and crooks “let-us-prey” day
The long march from Jarrow again day



It’s a Middle East peace is a myth day
Another if-only/what-if day
It’s a what was I trying to say? day
Is it really that time of the day? day



A “hang on while I just feed the fish” day
An everything’s-starting-to-drift day
It’s our mother’s birthday (hooray) day
A 'big hug for the people we love' day



It’s RIP Apple’s Steve Jobs day
And thank you for all the iPods day
His advice- live as if it’s your last day, so
Be bold and creative and happy- today.



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