Thank you all you lovely people for your kind comments and encouragement on my articles. One such from Audrey’s Daughter using the phrase – A way with words has given me the opportunity to air one of my scribbles which I have been itching to use sometime:
ASPIRATIONS AND INSPIRATIONS
The aspiring playwright paced pensively, but a title for his new play
just would not come.
Hopeless, he sighed, hopeless.
Never mind love said his darling wife Anne: I believe in you. You hath a way with
words, and, besides, the plays by other writers seem so much ado about nothing
We all have leanings towards various areas, mine just happen to be poetry and songs, both of which should tell a story in a succinct manner. I have written many poems: my most fertile years were early to mid 90s. From time to time I pen something new but it is sporadic and usually a result of some life event. I also have a lot of scribbled notes with ideas and phrases hoping one day to have the time to make something of them; also to retype them all in a common typeface and layout.
I was always top in English at grammar school and am an avid reader, I was called a bookworm when very young. Words, I love ‘em.
Thank you Heavy Weather for reminding us that there is a third verse to’In Flanders Field’ – I did not have a printed copy to hand when I composed the last Words so I Googled it and obviously picked the wrong site, forgetting there were three. My bad.
I have collected some great poems from current era writers and really must pursue this problem of copyright, they deserve wider exposure.
Was going through the comments earlier and enjoyed listening to the Bee Gees. Then listened to my favourite female singer Judith Durham, singing The Carnival is Over at the final Seekers concert. Always brings a lump to my throat, gets a bit dusty too.
I am getting to the point where I will try to ignore commenting on this omnishambles of a government. Their doings speak for themselves, but of course a large part of the population have no great interest in understanding what is really happening. Can it get any worse? Athough I do like the latest idea mooted – to abolish Police commissioners. That really is a waste of resources and money but will it happen? Aye, there’s the rub.
We are lucky to have contributions from the likes of Claudio Grass and Godfrey Bloom to put into context some of the financial shenanigans happening today. My lowly A Level in Economics and Public affairs helps but did not equip me to make sense of today’s faux prosperity.
I certainly think the idea of stock piling food and drink is worthwhile and I would like to go and bury my head somewhere fairly remote and let the rest of the world go by. I sometimes fear a great reduction in state pensions and the loss of other pensions and have been forecasting civil war for years.
In my local surgery I have now come across three doctors from the mid-east and Pakistan,one male. The lady a couple of days ago appeared very young and to me, not helped by my dicky hearing, was almost incomprehensible. Whose massive intellect decided (long ago) that we could ship in foreigners rather than train our own?
However there is a great deal still in this World to wonder at, to laugh at, to discuss with like-minded people.
One of my great joys as I am up and about is seeing the toddlers with their parents, wondering at the passing of the days, trusting and reliant on the big ones. Look after your family and enjoy the sunrise and the sunset. Remember the refrain from the old song : ‘Enjoy yourselves, it’s later than you think. Enjoy yourself, while you’re still in the pink. The days go by, as quickly as a wink, enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think! And I think to myself, what a wonderful world…….
© Gillygangle 2025
