Rudy the Runaway Reindeer comical poem 696 by Angela Lansbury

 

Rudy the Runaway Reindeer

took off on a wet winter's day

It's family all called, 'Wish you were here

Stay here,' - but he sauntered away.

Everyone was out looking

The police did a search with a drone

The coastguard, even the Royal Marines

All wanted to help Rudy home

A thermal heat-seeking picture

Revealed where our lad fell asleep

He was over the moon, asleep by a dune

Thank God not lost in the deep

They escorted him safely home

An end to our worry and fears

As for Rudy, he'll tell his tale

Of his travel for many years.

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Empty Calendar poem number 695 by Angela

 Poe number 695

On the first day of the year

I have a new calendar

More than three hundred days to fill

I can do anything I will

To fill the year, if you are bored

There's a card for every season

A food, a dress, which more or less

At one time had a reason

Fashion will find new colours

And shops will find new goods

New flowers, leaves, trees and birds

In each city, river, or wood

Stealing An hour poem 694

My bedcover, red with white birds flying. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

 I know I ought to go to bed

When night time cleaners clear my head

Yet every night I stay up late

I've thoughts to write which cannot wait

I'm trying to give life meaning

I love the quiet of the night

Protect laughter, stop life's screaming

Postpone facing traffic noise, light

And yet I know that I'm stealing

Hours which belong to tomorrow

Like taking two biscuits, chocolates

Means less later, to my sorrow

Some say you steal from life's end

If in your youth sleep hours you spend

Who knows what fate will throw my way

I'll grab another hour today.

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Things We Didn't Do This Year comical Poem 693 by Angela Lansbury

We sent a lot of emails iyt

We no longer send out faxes

We filled up a long tax return

Then paid all our bills and taxes

We  researched buying a big fridge

Sorted our books on playing bridge

Replaced a fence, rebuilt a wall

We haven't done a lot at all

People say I'm very lucky

That my husband is a keen cook

I'm an ex teacher, wrote a book

He too, wrote and printed a book

We had a lot of Covid jabs, not flu jabs

Lucky, didn't get the flu

My goodness, what a lot we've done

And so much more to do

My book came out a month ago

No time to write an ad

I'm busy wiring my next book

Do you think that I am mad?

We picked apples, not made cider

Got phyloxera on vines

We have not committed murder, stole, robbed banks

Just didn't have the time.

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The Prolific Poet comical poem 692 by Angela Lansbury

 Some people struggle to write a poem

I write many, like a shop of hats

Poems pour our of me incessantly

Like drops from a dripping tap - sorting words is like herding cats

Poems pour out of my poised pen

I'm running chased by words like rain

Oh, no, here comes another one

Like buses, three more stop again - I diet, but my poem's fat.

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Our Lovely World comical poem 691 by Angela Lansbury

 We all live in a lovely world

If we never speak nor read news

If we just think what good we've done

Ignoring lists of what to do

If we admire fine, grand houses

And don't wish that big one was mine

If we ignore old and new wars

But enjoy views, enthuse, 'I'm fine'

The doctor asked me, 'How are you?'

'My mind's fine, thanks - my body's not,

I've got titinitus, hammer toes, 

Strange pains, and tunes play in my heart.'

I don't weep for distant victims

Rant about fireworks, nor bombing.

See - no ants, butterflies nearby

Squirrels share their sense of belonging

I relax in isolation

People watch passers-by in crowds

When single, that was my problems

Couples kid's problems? I'd laugh loud

My bird clock. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

When flower perfume pleases us

And each musical bird or tune's pleasure

Breathing fresh air, glad we're alive

Our smiling face in a mirror's our treasure

When we're filled, fulfilled with wonder

The ocean's calm, and blue and deep

If we yawn but gladly to be awake

But prepare to have a good sleep

If we love drinking pure water

As much as Champagne or sweet wine

If we're glad happy with friends or alone

We do live in the perfect time.

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The Butterfly Effect Changing The Universe's Revolution comical poem 690 by Angela Lansbury

 

Butterfly in Changi Airport's Butterfly Garden.

We know the butterfly effect

Can bring results you don't expect

Where am I in the universe?

I don't think I'm here to rehearse

My time in judgement on a cloud

A balcony seat, to laugh out loud

At all mistakes made down below

Whilst I in limbo cease to grow

But if each thing's done for a reason

And there is good in each bad season

And there is good in plague and drought

You simply have to find it out

A million years of history

Weren't all designed for making me!

Why was I born? Do not ask why

Yet maybe I'm a butterfly!

Now that I'm here

Actions bring results. That's clear.

Something I do, and don't forget

Could have a big, beautiful effect

Maybe one smile, or just two tears

Will change the next three million years!

So it's important what you say

Your simple word could change my day

Did you like this? I'll try to guess

You'll change my world by saying yes!

Time's like trains on a railway line

We travel though light years of time.

If circles, not straight lines, believe

Resurrect, return to Adam and Eve

In heaven it's strange if all will change

Maybe all things will stay the same

Winners will always win the game

A rose by any other name

We might as well go with the flow

We all progress, and grow, we know

In sunlight, moonlight, candle glow -

Reach the same place with yes or no?

Now do I see the same as you?

Do you see green and call it blue?

Do you see blue but call it green?

Yet we both know what we both mean

Let's think and talk till we agree

I think like you, you think like me

We'll work hard to make others see

That I'm like you and you're like me

And we're both like a butterfly

Lives short, perfect, in time's jigsaw sky..

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Revised November 24th 2025

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