I could say flying cranes look like dancers
Like runners, like swimmers, a horse's mane
They start a symbol of desolation
But ballet teams, not in isolation
After we've done our best to protect and protest
A fresh word and image brings peace, consolation
The day you're born, it must truly be said
Mothers spend sleeping, or screaming, in bed
When you reach one, you don't know what it means
But when you're ten, you've got big group gift schemes
When you are twenty, you party plenty
But when thirty, you wish you were twenty
When you're forty, you wish you were thirty
Settled, or make up time being noughty
When you're forty, you wish you were thirty
When asked your age, you lie, or get shirty
When you're fifty, you wish you were forty
You feel old, even if you're still nifty
When you are sixty, it's time to retire
Wages are dwindling, ages grow higher
When you're severnty, you envy sixties
Youngsters are giants, friends are deaf pixies
When you're near eighty, tired, ready to drop
When somebody's thirty, you ask, care to swap?.
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All the lines have ten syllables.
I saved a syllable several ties by changing you are to you're. I saved a syllable by changing nearing to near. I saved a syllable by changing soebody to someone.
Can you remember the first time we kissed
No, I can't dear, but if you say so, it was bliss
Can you remember our first meal together -
Was it a moonlit night? No - I recall rainy weather
'Can you remember your funny little car?'
'Yes it broke down (in our road) we didn't get far
The door closed, key jammed, climbed through the roof
We had to go out and home on the hoof.'
'Remember our famous friend?'
'Do you mean Philip Klein?
'I Praised their floor cushions, instead of sofas, didn't realise they were poor
When we left they gave a V sign - never saw them any more.'
'You had a lovely ginger friend. Slim and so well dressed
What became of her? Did she marry?' "No. She died.
Yes. Very pretty. But silent. And depressed.
Long aftewards I read that she'd committed suicide.'
'While it's nice to think we had fun when we were young
I lost all my teeth at seven, I was a pimpy teen
We worried about our past and what was to come
There's no point in hankering for what we could have been
'Let's have some food and drink today The past is the past
All the old times are gone, let's put them away
The good times didn't last but the bad times didn't last
I have got you here and now so let's enjoy today.'
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It's not just luck to see a duck
You can keep one as a pet
I bet they make a lot of muck
I haven't tried it yet.
If you want to be sure to see
One, try Peabody Hotel, USA
One day I think I'll drive that way
See ducks for free and make my day.
French restaurants mean you eat well
But duck's not served in this hotel.
Their ducks are there for meeting and greeting
But the hotel ducks are not for eating.
Duck a lorange is everywhere
Except Peabody, it's not there
After your visit, I'm sure, my dear
You won't eat duck, until next year.
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Should I end with the words next year or New Year?
You can see a series of pictures in Wikipedia and on the hotel's website. The Peabody Ducks live on the roof of the hotel. Every day they parade down the red caret to music and end up in the hotel fountain for a few hours of the afternoon, until they ceremoniously return.
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Also in Memphis
Riverboat Cruise
Sun City Music Centre (where Elvis recorded)
Chines and Jewish museum
More galleries than Jewish ones and lots of Jade to see.
You miht like to read about quirky visits and cautionary tales on my travel blog, travelwithAgela Lansbury.
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I can see why
Teachers are cross
At AI work
The pupil's loss
When work's returned
The task not read
No facts instilled
In pupil's head
The same is said
Of contest rules
Or prizes go
To AI fools
AI is new
To our culture
But I believe
It's our future
When I'm alone
It saves me time
Like alarm clocks
More time is mine
You only have
To simply ask
AI will do
The routine task
It's like mother
It's like teacher
Judge and jury
God and preacher
Soon it will make
Our life go round
And be a help
With lost and found
All the new things
Cause rejection
Later, are kept
On inspection
Sewing machines
Can save us time
A Coravin
Saves opened wine
When you are old
Drivrless cars
When this world dies
We'll live on Mars
Drones deliver
A rocket bus
Think how much more
It'll do for us
Babysitter
Sits beside her
Makes up her milk
And moves the spider
It cooks breakfast
And cleans the house
Travel online
It moves the mouse
End depression
And pessisim
AI will send
Just optimism
One day we'll find
It sorts all mess
We'll say AI
Thank you, God bless.
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AI generated watercolour of Van Gogh
Illustrations and sources of illustrations from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
The word mouse is abiguous.\
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Yesterday, dears
One small green bird
Dropped in for tea
We saw and heard
And that small bird
Reminded me
Of red robin
Which came to tea
Maybe to see
Just you or me.
I said hello
It blinked one eye
I wondered why
It didn't fly
I'll tell you why
I think I know
Some birds don't speak
No goodbye. Go.
They perch and peek
They have a cheek
Season't harvest
Gone in a week.
I eat my lunch
And then they come
Ready to pounce
On delicious crumbs
Birds grab a crumb
In their sharp beak
Though small, not weak
Find what they seek
I fondly think
I've found a friend
But food, not friends
Seems their whole end
Yet that green bird
Has made me think
When it stopped by
To eat or drink
I'm sorry when
It flew away
That charming bird
Had made my day
A cat's around -
The singing's stopped
I'll just listen
To my bird clock.
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