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 Mar 2022 Sheila Haskins
Zywa
Clothes in the colour

of my skin, I do not dare --


even on the beach.
Collection "The drama"
She is 82,
Mark the date
No family left to celebrate,
Just a son who seldom calls
"2 years he hasn't remembered at all"
"It doesn't matter, his job is hard",
Sometime this month she'll get a card,
signed with love and sealed with a kiss
It reminds her she's old,
and of the day he missed
This is one of my dearest friends. Not all children are blessings, not all birthdays are happy
The first lesson is to be still
the next is to wait
while you look long
and listen deep
that you might love all the more.
'There's only one lesson in painting, and that is to look." Louis Wain.  
In life, the lesson is similar.
The company you sleep with
is the company you keep with
when the wolves are bearing down,

at the risk of boring London town
Her Majesty will wear a crown
and a full crown, not
a half a crown
because?
well fiddlesticks,
a half a crown is only two and six
and she's worth more than that.

Also, while I'm still a subject,
she rejected my invitation
to meet at Carnforth railway station
for a
'Brief Encounter'
told me she was seeing
Trevor.


I hate Trevor.
all about the references
Ironic
The ones that trend
Never feel like
The best I’ve penned
Maybe mediocrity
Is what makes things
So trendy
If anything was ever funct it's now become defunct,

I'm aware that funct isn't recognised as a real word
but we're not living in a real world are we?

funct should be the new curse word
as in 'get funct'

of course, it'll never catch on
never be put in the Oxford,
but I'll be funct if I'm going
to change it.
when the shadows creep away
at the ending of the day,

she's gone and yet she has not
she's still pottering about and
watching out for her family,

as her spirit takes wing and flies
she finds the time to wipe the tears
from our eyes,

at the ending of the day
when the shadows creep away
she keeps watch.
Flip flops and jim jams,
I'll have to dress
can't stay like this all day
what would Mother say?

And I thought I'd taken my temperature
it said I was six feet three, then
realised I'd used the measuring stick
silly, silly me.
Happy Sunday, Summer is almost here
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