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anthony Brady May 2020
Whatever distance
my mind and body
travels in time,  
journey’s end
is us united
in the same
sacred place.  
There, in our
loving hearts
where our eyes
magnetically met.
From here on,
our souls
twinned as one.
We fell  in love
far longer than
a lifetime’s span
forever bonded
fixed for eternity.

Osiris
anthony Brady May 2020
Whatever the distance
my mind and body
travels in time,  
journey’s end
is us united
in the same
sacred place
where it began.  
There, twinned
loving hearts
where our eyes
met magnetically.
From here on,
our souls are
twinned as one.
We fell  in love
destined to last
far longer than
a lifetime’s span.
Fixed for eternity.

Osiris
The love poems in the six book series -The Treasury of Twin Flame Poetry - are by the pen-named Isis and Osiris.  Published by tredition.com
anthony Brady Jul 2020
I imagine the sound of your
voice, the words you spoke
of love that linger  echoing
in my quiet corners of time.

I miss you in the sense
that separate from you
I am no longer whole:
only part of a poem
sketched in the sky, forming
for your eyes only to read.  

I am not of the passionate kind:
I love too softly, too shyly,
mostly a  little too deeply.
Still: soothed by touches of your
remote hands - I rest content.

Tobias
anthony Brady Apr 2018
When I arrive at The Pearly Gates,
I will still be troubled by
the one thing in life I never
really understood. I mean
the second Theory of Relativity.
My nightmare is that St. Peter
is not on duty the day I die
and I seek entry.
He will have, I hope, passed
on the usual questions....

...all of which I have sure-fire
prepared answers,
to one of his locum guardians.
Hope it’s not Albert Einstein.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Jun 2019
You are to me what
dreams are made of.
I dream of you in lots
of different ways.
For example:
touching stars,
flying angels,
riding on clouds,
making magic
seeing fairies
writing happy-
ever-after- tales.
I count the ways
I dream of you.
Best of all  
every dream
of you - just
as you  are -
came true.

Tobias
anthony Brady Mar 2019
I seek. I strive. My mind
is completely absorbed.
No hiatus between my
experience, knowledge
nor practice. No bounds
between means and end.

Or, between life, living
and the imagination.
Neither in and from all
the things in my being,  
mind, aims and learning.
Above all, no division, for:

“I am part of all
that I have met.”  (Tennyson)

Tobias
anthony Brady Apr 2015
A ticking clock.  Footsteps.  Wind.  Applause.
               Homeless:  after midnight.  Sheltered in this cold
               church  doorway.  I can hear a clock
               ticking  in  its tower.
               Rustling  leaves, tossed  along  wet pavement
                in a callous wind
                sound  like approaching footsteps.
                In  famished  sleep  I dream  of  former  glory.
                Me.  A celebrity. Yeah!  – big time.
                All I  have  now are  fading echoes
                of  cheering crowds. Some comfort.
                The applause dies.  I awake: alone with
                 sounds.  A  clock ticking.  Leaf  blown  footsteps.
                 A  cheerless wind.  
                                                                            
                  TOBIAS
anthony Brady Mar 2019
Goddess terrain: contoured
curves ***** gently down
to pale breast’s pointing

Cleft soft thighs dividing  
pink downy peaches
open to fern …

…fringed vale where a
secret orchid-shaped  
cave spreads wide…

…its probe luring
lips beyond
the folds of …

…Venus’ veils.
I gaze content
in  finding
*****’s
inviting petals.

Tobias
anthony Brady Mar 2018
I am made for you, woman
of substance: finest cut
sheer in silk to fit my
chic lady of style.

Short sleeves
or long:  
smooth me
press me
wear me.

In chill and cold
let me cling
around your
curvy contours
close and tight.

In noon-day heat
free me
unbuttoned
hanging loose
to cool you.

Drench me in  fragrance
caress my soft collar
then gently discard  me
plunging me deep
into soft soapy foam.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Aug 2019
To envisage You,
body, mind, soul,
in moods of longing
when all words fail
and language is lost
in the translation,
I lay down my pen.
Then trace your heart
in outline on my
canvas  of dreams.

Tobias
anthony Brady Jul 2019
There comes a woman
beautiful, so much
more lovely than
she would be on this
perfect day, because
her eyes are fixed
on me - a man alone.

She has the allurement
of a dream, a phantom
of desired delights...
...made for what only
thoughts acclaim and
fairest words describe:
this woman is a poem.

Tobias
anthony Brady Mar 2018
To
truly
Forgive
someone
who harmed
you, is to Forget
where you buried
the avenging hatchet.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Apr 2018
You are sunlight’s glow,
softly melting snow.
Awake from Winter ease.
You are the mild breeze
summoned up to tease  
Spring buds in hosts untold.
their shy blossoms to unfold:
reaching out to Summer’s face
forming fruit in weight apace.
Your escorts - butterfly and bee
silenced by Autumn - now flit
to bush and buzz to tree:
seeking out sunbeams befit
for You and Me.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Feb 2019
Lord. With your love and power
be always at her side.
Grudge not time nor the hour
to be her  hope and guide…

In sickness and thro’ sadness
still let her see Your face.
Bless her fleeting gladness
with Your all-protecting grace…

Fill with joyful clearness
her shadowed hours of sight.
Keep her safe in Your nearness
from Evening’s fall to Morning light.

Tobias
A life long companion is stricken with an inoperable brain tumour...
anthony Brady May 2019
I was alarmed as nobody
paid attention to me:
if there was a Plan B -
it was to die - dramatically.

A hangman’s halter I took to  swing
snapped and failed my neck to wring.
Then I drank of hemlock deep:
all it did was make me sleep.

Wide awake I’d somehow made it back
I laid me down  on a railway  track
Alas! never once was I alerted
all trains had been diverted.

It seemed a good idea to me
to drown myself in the Dead Sea:
buoyant in such drink, I did not think
no swimmer  there is known to sink

From a high rise parapet I dropped over
and landed in a cushioned bed of clover.
I tried to cut my jugulars  but By Heck!
the blade was blunt and just grazed my neck.

A contract killer - hired off the shelf -
took the money then shot himself
after stating though he’s willing
I was not worth the killing.

By now getting frantic
on the internet I met a tantric
guru whose advised me tarry
“All I needed was to marry…

…It is a kind of death, all  near
and dear pity you - but it’s clear
you get everybody’s attention
and in obituaries never a mention”.
.
Tobias
anthony Brady Apr 2018
“Attention! For those desiring body
Re-construction.  You can be on the
way to a new You. Now thanks to a
range of  cosmetic techniques,
your true beauty is unlocked”.
Dr. Hiram Shapemgood.

Take my mate’s girl friend - answered the advert:
she’s a cosmetic surgeon’s dream:
Botox rid the wrinkles round her eyes
and Lipo-Suction smoothed her cheeks.

Then the talk was all about
her saggy, thin lips: a  Trout Pout
soon  transformed them into
tasty,  luscious smackers.

She just had to get a Nose Job.
a Chin Lift followed that.
Neck Fat Transfer was a bargain
and banished unwanted floppy bulges.

For the sake of body proportion,
A **** Job next: had them reshaped:
made pert with silicon implants
firmer, fuller, lifted, enhanced.

As for her abdomen – The Tummy Tuck.
Buttocks augment? – The **** Lift,
Hips reshaped. Thighs trimmed.
Knees, calves, and ankles re-contoured.

She loves herself the way she is
and swears it’s all worthwhile.
As for him? She who once was toned, elastic,
he reckons might as well be Barbie Doll plastic.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Mar 2020
Au naturelle
You slip off all:
I imagine before
a full length mirror.
As silken top  slides
down your contours
to reveal all aspects
of your cool beauty
the possibilities
beguile me.
Your power to charm
is palpable:
a sight none but
I see released,
showing elements
of your alchemy,
your magic.
Thus you appear
adorable, mute
in music’s sound.
while memory
sketches in the
rest of you.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Mar 2018
Oh, Dear! What can the matter be?
Johnny Scarlotti is following me.
He won’t buy a trinket to please me
but with a smile would ease me
onto a slab at the morgue.

Oh, dear! What can the matter be?
Johnny's on his way from the fair.
He’s bringing me a basket of posies
a garland of lilies, a bunch of red roses
a wreath for where my body reposes.

Oh, Dear! What can the matter be?
Johnny Scarlotti is following me....

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Mar 2018
She
wore
only
her
fragrance.
He
watched
her
slip
between
satin
sheet's,
leaving
everything
to
his
imagination.  

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Sep 2019
Goblins, gremlins, ghosts, galore
tricksters,  treaters: not anymore.
Parties, parades, toffees, galore
masks, costumes, gowns to adore.
My black teeth sharp anticipating gore
I’m up on a chair behind the door
wielding something special in store.
So whatever you do, I implore
don’t you dare enter my yard
since you won’t leave unscarred.
Hee. Hee. Hey! ******! ******!
Whatever neat and clever your riddle
my axe will split you down the middle.
Though you scream, squirm and squeal
You kids will be my very next meal.

Tobias
A grateful nod to Christopher P. Wyman and other Halloween themed poems by HP poets.
anthony Brady May 2019
The secret’s out – Hip! Hip! Horray!
Meghan Markle has had her way:
no papparazzi just a note to state..
..gold framed upon the palace gate..
a baby born to her and Prince Harry.

It was a very private affair - narry
a Home Secretary  was there to see
the birth - a custom ended by decree:
though historically meant as inclusion
t’was deemed at last a male intrusion.

Now in an age where all is bi-
ethnic black and white tie
parently neat and true
with the royal blood line’s
red, white,  and blue.

By George! To Will and Kate
in poetry  - I must relate
there is no comparison
other than that word
rhymes with Harrison.

Hey. Nonny. Nay.
Alack a day -
I must away,
for this verse done and said
I could withall lose my head.

Tobias
anthony Brady Mar 2018
Mine host in a B&B on the coast,
excelled in the making of toast,
But one morning - half awake -
he made this mistake:
instead of bread
he toasted his head.
I assure you, no take-on
his patrons thought it was bacon.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Mar 2018
The last time
I was in Italy
I went into a
Florence barber's
shop for a shampoo.
The assistant enquired
where I came from?
I told him - “Ireland.”
When he  asked me
for my name?
I said "Tim O'Taye."

“Prega signor,
Tell me yours!”
I asked.
He replied -
"Alberto Balsam!"

TOBIAS
anthony Brady May 2018
Within me is a heart
pleading and true:
a man forced apart
willing to free you.

Remembering our life,
recalling fifty years
as man and wife
eroding in tears..

From this illness
turn from pain:
you to stillness
revived again.

Bring your mind
home - a release
safe once more
in Hearts-ease.

TOBIAS

Definition of Hearts-Ease in
the language of flowers: Peace of mind.
Altzeimers - the living death in dementia
anthony Brady Jun 2019
The travelling President called Trump
showed he's a twittering insensitive lump:
though visiting as an all-American dude
about the Mayor of London he was rude.
Soon the Trump tour lost its sparkle
when he slagged-off Meghan Markle
And showed he’s no gent - just a chump.


Tobias
anthony Brady Apr 2019
On a sound route map of the ‘70s,
his church-trained tenor voice
verging at times on falsetto
led  hordes of people to go on
holiday to Greece and Spain.
It was romantic, Mediterranean,
a perfect music background to sea,
“The morning sun”, ouzo and sangria.
Beverley, in the play  Abigail’s Party
voiced devotion to Demis Roussos
in her opinion: “He doesn’t sound fat.”
Kaftan-clad flowing black hair:
Demis was called “The Singing Tent”
Such poetry in song will last forever.  
Sing it again Demis.  

Tobias

“He had a superb voice. He was an
artist, a friend. I hope he is in a better world.”    
Nana Mouskouri.

Lyrics
Ever and ever, forever and ever you'll be the one
That shines in me like the morning sun
Ever and ever, forever and ever you'll be my spring
My rainbow's end and the song I sing
Take me far beyond imagination
You're my dream come true, my consolation
you'll be my dream
My symphony, my own lover's theme
(Ever and ever forever and ever) my destiny
Will follow you eternally
Take me far beyond imagination
You're my dream come true, my consolation
you'll be the one
That shines in me like the morning sun
(Ever and ever, forever and ever) my destiny
Will follow you eternally

Songwriters: Robert Constandinos / Stylianos Vlavianos
anthony Brady Jun 2019
Liberty. Equality. Fraternity.
I followed those signs
to a wayside chapel
of no denomination.
I lit a candle there
more in hope
than certainty.
My prayer was:
May its light
be ever bright
and show that
democracy is
a living reality,
a shining promise,
a brilliant ideal,
with many faces,
and always an
eternal perpetual
work in progress.

tobias
anthony Brady Oct 2018
Waiter? There is a hair
in my soup - right there!
Take it back to the Chef.
I demand an explanation!
               ------
Sorry Sir! The Chef sends
a replacement in amends,
though it is not his habit,
it wasn't hare but rabbit.

Tobias
anthony Brady Oct 2019
Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
in all the places you can,
at all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can.

John Wesley
anthony Brady Jun 2018
You were never in
a foreign land to me,
but more like home:
a place where I am
meant to be.

I found that sacred path
the one that we were meant to
walk together forever - My Love.
Right up to your open door…
all distances diminished.

Now each day passes
where yesterday is
forever  gone while
tomorrow we will let
take care of itself.

For the only thing
that really matters
is this moment:
here so quickly
gone as quickly.

Still in a very
real and good
sense this is the
the one sure
place to live.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Oct 2019
Does love have a shelf life?
“A best before date?”
All I know is it lasts,
does exactly what it
states on the tin,
on the package,
where the labels say:
Love Poetry and Prose:
use as soon as possible.

tobias
anthony Brady Nov 2018
Your love is Spring’s first breath
fragrant on gentle healing hands,
gifting me energy: the will to live.
Your kisses upon my lips are feathery
as leaves drifting in late Autumn.
Your love enfolds my heart
like dew in crystal cascades.
Winter reflects in your eyes,
snowflakes melt on your face.
Your skin is warm
like the Summer sun,
and when you touch me,
new ardours flare.
The moon pulls us together
thrusting away tensions,
moving energy as waves
of emotion through our veins.
You are the breath of Spring.
The kisses of Autumn.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Mar 2018
C'est un trou de verdure, où chante une riviere
Accrochant follement aux herbes des haillons
D'argent, où le soleil, de la montagne fière,
Luit:  c'est un petit val qui mousse de rayons.
Un soldat jeune, bouche ouverte, tête nue
Et la nuque baignant dans le frais cresson bleu,
Dort; il est étendu dans 1'herbe, sous la nue,
Pâle dans son lit vert où la lumiere pleut.
Les pieds dans les glaïeuls, il dort.  Souriant comme
Sourirait un enfant malade, il fait un somme.
Nature, berce-le chaudement:  il a froid!
Les parfums ne font pas frissonner sa narine;
II dort dans le soleil, la main stir sa poitrine,
Tranquille. Il a deux trous rouges au côté droit.

Arthur Rimbaud,  Oeuvres

translation:

THE VALLEY SLEEPER

It's a green vale where a river runs
clawing madly at silver herbs that toss
shade, while from proud mountain the sun's
rays fall on a crater foaming with moss.

A young soldier, mouth open, head bare,
neck nape bathed in blue water cress
sleeps; white faced, of clouds unaware
and in green bed, the light's caress.

Feet in gladioli, smiling, dozing, still
as a sick child smiles, he is taking a rest.
His nostrils uncloyed by scents,
he sleeps in the sun, hand on chest,
In his right side are two red rents.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady May 2019
I could be a Titian
but can’t even draw
a straight line,
not least create
a masterpiece.
Is that Pablo,
Vincent and Rodin
giggling somewhere
at my useless doodles?
            2
You could be a Degas
dancer that’s what:
me, avoiding your toes
holding you with
my nervous shake
all out  of rhythm
and pace. My sweaty
palms on your bare back,
my apologies –Ma Cherie!

            3
My poems may
not make wine
out of water.
But I can try
to dance on cue.
As for my canvases
I will paint you
in every colour
including blue.

            4
I’m an art lover:
that much I
know is true,
with brushes,
words to share,
hold it right there
just let me
show you.

Tobias
anthony Brady Mar 2018
Life is an advance:
what you borrow is Time,
no limit it seems, at the start.
Silver in months, years are in Gold

Life is a lease:
its terms inflexible
locked in from day one.
Silver in seasons, ages in Gold

Love is a lending:
that seeks no return
the interest compounded each day.
Silver in reasons and values in Gold

Death is a debt
a bond that is broken
no interest in life from the start.
Pay-off in sorrows - heartbreak untold.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Oct 2018
They married in the merry month of May
at Windsor Castle  - Hey Noney Ney!
So, Meghan and Prince Harry
decided not to tarry.
Now a baby’s on the way.
next Spring - they say..
The Queen’s amused
The Duke’s bemused
Prince Charles enthused:
saying to Duchess Camilla,
“A Jolly Good Show! Oh Joy!”
Said she: “A girl or boy?”
Said HRH "Don't tease.  
One or the other -
no transgender if you please,
nor talk of Succession
to threaten my Accession.”

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Jul 2019
On frozen heights
I had searched
anew for you
close to sunlit
clouds, the stars..

…between dreams,
romantic fantasies,
on paths of verse
laid down for me
landmarks set out
as passion’s trails.

Just out of reach
but always there,
to find at last
you in solitude.

Alone, I traced your
steps, followed all
imprinted on pristine
snows of memory.

tobias
anthony Brady Nov 2018
While walking in the jungle
I saw a monkey peeling
a banana and holding
a tin opener. I guess
not needed for
the banana. So
it must have
been for the
custard.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Feb 2019
The words "I love you"
can - through repetition -
sound and  seem shallow,
when compared with the
immensity of your caring,
for the one you love...

Words can sometimes
fail and actions deceive:
so all is best expressed
in sharing between each
your devoted loving trust.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Apr 2018
It was the dawn’s first song
sung  upon a dormer sill:
that euphoric  sound
from orange beak
trilling  his sweet
notes all around.

Along
with others
soon joining in,
all thought of work
was forgotten with a smile
Caruso entertained me for a while.

Not the singer of former age
in concert hall on global stage:
to mention Enrico by name and fame.
Only an urban  blackbird among a throng
of birds in carefree chorus of morning song.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Mar 2018
Enchanting You:
beautiful,
more lovely,
than a Spring
morning sunrise.

Or, rainfall on
a Summer day
as leaves filter sunbeams
dappling the vacant  sky
in screens  of shade and light.

Alluring You:
a flower that
steals through cracked
stones in an Autumn garden,
revealing shy beauty there.

Inspiring You:
more magical than
fresh Winter snow.
Mentor for lines
that formed this poem.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Mar 2020
My wishes are: that they will
convey  comfort in trying times.
Smiles where sadness intrudes.
Rainbows to melt dark clouds.
Laughter as kisses on parched lips.
Sunsets to warm all hearts.
Hugs when spirits are low.
Amity to brighten their being.

A Muse to inspire them.
Faith in which to believe
in Poetry's possibilities.
Courage to know themselves.
Confidence when in doubt.

Good health and the patience
to accept what is - that they
can go on to live a long
and fulfilling happy life .
Above all I wish them
more Inspiration - less
Perspiration in their writing:
moreover boundless creativity.

Tobias
anthony Brady May 2019
Even if I feel alone
I'm not alone:
my love is close,
ever beside me.
Even when
I'm far away
She is here
next to me
sharing love.

Even when her eyes
are closed and she
dreams in her night
I am here in my way
holding her.
And even if
it looks like
we are apart,
we are never
separated.

Tobias
anthony Brady Feb 2019
What was that haunting sound
outside in the gathering gloom?
Its mournful tones rang round
the pale moonlit silent  room.
No spectre, ghost nor ghoul,
but only a wandering owl
that had lately left its lair
to sit high in an oak tree bare
of leaves. While from nearby,
feathers unruffled wide of eye,
it cast a shadow from its head,
as I lay only half-asleep in bed.
Counting each and every breath.
Its presence “a harbinger of death”
often in fables told and legendary.
Was there an omen in its elegy?
For this listener, blanketed prone
in fearful darkness, still as stone.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Mar 2019
I think on you when the dark hours arise,
You appear before me, invoking Paradise,
arousing  Eros the whole night through:
moonglow revealing our passions so true.

Slowly, scenes I dreamed of appear as real,
desires tempt my thoughts but cannot steal
your arms  drawing  my body close to yours.
Fantasy's keys unlock Venus's secret doors.

A healing tenderness flows from your hands,
complete is my submission to Love's demands;
Your sweet breath on my face is a sealing kiss,
O, what ecstasies we enjoy in hours of bliss!

No sense of guilt intrudes, it lacks the power
to deny this rapture, or vandalize each hour;
so we revel in rhapsody - 'til dawn opens its door
to let daytime sun rays  awaken us once more.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Apr 2018
Pastoral peace pervades fields and dells:
on boughs, in hedges, birds rehearse
their euphoric trills - each note tells
of will to mate in tones desiring, terse.
Sun rays filter through April showers
tinting daffodils with yellow  gold
coaxing to bloom perennial flowers.
Easter lambs bleat from sheltered fold,
eager to stray and play by rising streams
winding over meadows to mill ponds
where moorhens nest and idle angler dreams.
Rabbits appear from cover of ferny fronds.
while in the trees countless leafy voices
sigh soothingly as all of Nature rejoices.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Sep 2019
Picture a candlelit bathroom:
I was deep in a hot bath  of
scents  and oil - reading
a book of lyrical  poetry.
Nothing out of the ordinary.

You were reading too:
I  rested my head on
your foamy *******.
Looking up at you
I saw love in your eyes

You kissed my forehead.
We both went back
to  reading poetry.
Such sweet repose.
Nothing out of the ordinary.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Mar 2018
Royal baby Charlotte! Why the fuss?
What’s she ever done for us?
Half the nation’s  overweight.  Zounds!
She’s already piling on the pounds.

Alas!  Great-Grand-Queen-Mother Lizzie,
is not around to order up  the fizzie.
Hushabye!  Like RIP Backstairs Billy, true,
Nanny will be always there for you.  

Food banks you will never know.
Nor will you shop in Lidl or Tesco.
Still, there will always be a queue
of eager suitors lining up for you.

So sleep pretty  babe - don’t frown,
in future you might wear a crown.
But, just for now, a wee white bonnet:
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS  knitted  neatly on it.

TOBIAS
anthony Brady Jan 2020
Master, of all without and within
inspire me with the need to pray;
keep me, my Guide, from every sin
and temptations not only for today.

Help me both to diligently heed
the call to work and play:
make me kind in word and deed,
rather more than just today.

Let me be slow to command,
prompt me quickly to obey;
Help me meet every demand
for  self-denial sacrifices today.

Let me no hurtful quips
in spite unthinking say;
set thou a seal upon my lips
throughout all of today.

Help me now to know my place,
but still with a leading role to play:
let me be grateful for thy grace,
Dear Master,  not only for today.

Should by night this life of mine
decline and ebb away,
bear me aloft to heaven divine,
redeemed forever there to stay.

But if in Purgatory I am to lie
brief must be my stay;
I trust  if I am judged today
in Hell I shall not fry.

As for what awaits beyond today
I do not care nor need to pray:
all I hope is that you may
close beside me ever stay.

tobias
This is a remake of a traditional  hymn: Lord, for tomorrow and it needs - I do not pray. I was taught to sing it by nuns who ran the 1940's orphanage that contained me as a child. It petitions for a range of pieties with the refrain "Just for today." A beautiful hymn set to sacred music dating from 1818. It has become for me increasingly uncomfortable as Goodness/Humanity should be for every day and not just for today.
anthony Brady Apr 2018
Daffodils?
Wordsworth’s waved and danced:
mine just bend, bow and nod,
in a sight, densely displayed
upon a mossy bank.

No lake there, nor cloud
in the sky,neither am I lonely.
I'm here with a girl called April.
Counting those yellow heads
is easy: sixty, if I’m not mistaken.

How William “...saw ten thousand
at a glance..” from a closet, baffles me.
It seems daffodils make you gay
and sprightly dance - jocund too -
at least they made him so.

Now supine upon my comfy couch
I lie - in breezy mood of parody,
it transports me off to Holland.
where  in Amsterdam counting tulips,
Naughty Weekend April is beside me.

TOBIAS
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