INTROSPECTION

(Alex knows first amendment by above)

  • If you’ve done the deed
  • And for self examination you feel the need
  • Then at your poetry take a look
  • For it can read you like a book
  • But if doubts thought too profound
  • Within your mind they still abound
  • Thinking poem never written never found
  • Then write it now for just with your question
  • An honest life shows that verse prewritten

A Sad Grey





  • A SAD GREY
  • Having been away from home on a 3 month stint I discovered that all colours except Black and White had disappeared. All shades were gone. This appeared to my eye to provide a dingy outlook while this pallete was used. The implied cry to ” come in the waters fine” was to my mind not helpful. The particular waters at the time being distinctly undesirable.
  • It caused me to question. “If colour be only skin deep then why too near the bone to mention”
  • Might be in deep water here thinks Smith

Single Word Stuff (i)

  • a)    “Parapluie” Impression/feeling obtained when spoken by a French child or young woman it is rain rather than hail.
  • b)   “Zeit” When spoken by middle aged male Swiss railway porter. The soft” t” in front is essential for the full impression (rather than expression).
  • c)   “    别客气 or Bié kèqì “   becomes “bekootzee” in the smith phonetic. Truly subjective this one. Its use illustrates my wider definition of alliteration into correlation not just of spoken word but also of the  word to ideas, visualised impressions etc. For me it brings to mind the many smiling faces of friends Julie and I made in China and in particular the workers in the Quinsho factory acknowledging my response, whether appropriate or not, to whatever they said, or did, as they helped me in my work there. This one word plus some of the numbering remans my sole Chinese vocabulary.
  • d) (i) Mantequilla This gets butter really well when spoken at speed amid other words by soft voiced, slightly older, Spanish waitress. Must have made an impression on me since I got the spelling right first time ¿
  • e)  Somnolent Dead right for a sad faced lion, (Stanley Hollaway)

 

“US”

  • I was “inspired” to envisage this after I had just seen a commemorative program on Ken Dodd. It described a wonderful person well liked by any he met, providing enjoyment to many. It occurred to me that if his life were to be reported on by a journalist today some failure would be sought to provide interest, rather than simply reporting on this as a fine example of goodness in humanity. It is for this reason that “Us” is pronounced with a Liverpudlian accent without trace of sarcastic hoot.
  • The Us philosophy allows no “them” or “they” living on this world just Us. If they have landed then please refer to Roddenberry
  • For persons of my age race was used in words such as racism but the main thrust of it related to the human race. Thus I have the world of Us populated by tribes large and small, multitribal and so on. Therefore to me such words as racism etc belie the purpose for which they were formed. They are devisive whereas “the evil side of tribalism” is more inclusive and useful for Us.
  • Younger of Us would have the world populated by a species Human comprising many races, This still allows the “Us” since any philosophy incapable of improvement lies dead on the ground into which it was supposed to be planted. The common  “words” of Us are the feelings in all of the individuals of Us and the aspirations to do good for the tribe, race, specie etc The printed word can have whatever some of Us like to ascribe as to the meaning  but Us can always sense a feeling that is common to all
  • Us is then a theory which has to be useful at the time for its purpose quite capable of, and essentially requiring, change to increase its usefulness. Since it deals with Us it will never become the axiom.
  • When referring to Us always treat it in the singular indicative. I have not made a grammatical mistake when one appears to have happened. Rather it appears in my text to cause an itch that calls for the scratch of the posterior rather than the tearing of lumps. The anatomical reference takes in the different time zones of the Us, and repiaces that which is usual. It might also result in the irregular irregular becoming a positive food for thought. This treatment of the old adage emphasises the need to consider the languages used by the Us concerned and perhaps look for a common language when addressing Us. The usual is perfectly acceptable in the U,S and yet was considered course or rude in the U K.
  • Looking for Smith to give sensible illustration it might be worthwhile to consider the following jotting and thought
  • ONE FOR THE TEAM
  • Smith recent is strolling along with grandson on his shoulder It is a home match and he is an avid West Ham supporter hoping that the lad he is carrying will follow in his footsteps. As they approach the road a west ham supporter throws the half empty can at the Tottenham team coach “Its people like that who make us ashamed of ourselves he remarks”
  • Now moving somewhat forward to the away gane a similar situation developes. once again the home side supporter baptises the away team’s coach, But who is riding on the shoulder as a grandad inflicts yet anther pearl of wisdom, “Its people like that who make Us ashamed of ourselves he remarks”.
  • Optimistic, tortoise like, the grandson of the original carried is favoured by Smith.
  • A SAD GREY
  • Having been away from home on a 3 month stint I discovered that all colours except Black and White had disappeared. All shades were gone. This appeared to my eye to provide a dingy outlook while this pallete was used. The implied cry to” come in the waters fine” was to my mind not helpful. The particular waters at the time being distinctly undesirable. It caused me to question.
  • “If colour be only skin deep then why to near the bone to mention”
  • Might be in deep water here thinks Smith”
  • One final observation.
  • Since closing time approaches (for me at any rate). In repeated intelligence  tests I have been informed that I closely approach the upper quartile. I was quite pleased at first as I considered these results proffered  by kindly  examiners.  Later of course I was led to consider that,, due to the plausibly indolent life style led by the 25% of world population above me, it was likely that not only the opinions would carry considerable weight.  I would therefore be better out from under from these discussions striving to help Us as Us tribes,, races etc get increasingly sqeezed by climate change and increasing populations. I have therefore made my decision.
  • Since Us, rather than a bill of rights, has the more stringent list of obligations, I will seek to find the right questions of the much maligned intellectual  elite. They only require these to give them the best chance of solving Us problems if only like others I have the wit to ask them.
  • Thus the wrinkly’s rant completes.

Climatic Poetic

As gyroscope I do spin
Mass outside
Magna within
If top should melt before the bottom
And cause a wobble
Or all melting
Cause of topple
Then far more than cattle fart 
Let no plane fly
Let no car start
Better far crash economic
Than result so catastrophic
But if this thought be ignorant and enigmatic
By careless thought to cause a panic
Then of course let discussion flow
But please not by interests held ready now
Best those who by intellect the facts can know

Elusive prey

On tow path take no high dudgeon
As Sunday walkers rough and ruddy of complexion
Approach, curse, dodge the tackle and walk on
Or canoeist’s to the pub do race
Not knowing drowsy anticipation
Of catching
Or harp on steady pull of stretched elastic
Or follow those caught rotating plastic
If both fresh and salt are all.
Then to the kin of this colour
Add one spirit as with another
This one fresh medium not of rhyming hue
But both unlike the rest
With Sino twice mentioned do attest
One game and no need of lying
When too large for pan frying
Two that rout any with the tackle
Succumbing gently to the tickle
or some like wheels turn and wriggle
Two with sea rod initially and singly link
Sounds transposed with mineral and sino link
You must not total net for satisfaction
But with malaprop or craft ensure deduction
So all that give us so such pleasure
The elusive number to ensure
for crossword puzzlers get number