Saturday, September 13, 2025

Time To Diet - A Distraction comical poem 662 by Angela Lansbury


First thing - I ought to weigh myself

It's up to me it's my own health

My buttons burst, I've split my skirt

I must admit it's me I've hurt


I know when I'm on a diet

Don't tell your friends, best keep quiet

Eat half or whole? You're in control

When faced with breafast's brown seed roll


 Is time an enemy or friend?

It warns, bad start, good - break time ends

The one thing dieters can't stop

Is time's march like a ticking clock




I have a hunch it's time for lunch

To chew, to chomp, swallow and munch

At waiting I'm still a beginner

I struggle to wait for dinner


If I can't wait I'll take a date

Next time my loot's a piece of fruit

A glass of water helps me wait

Weigh myself in my birthday suit


Open the fridge, I look for tea

A host of food is calling me

Until I see the warning clock

Slam the fridge door, this search must stop


Postpone pleasure, postpone sorrow

Once more, diet starts tomorrow

Once a sinner, now a winner

Just say 'no seconds' at dinner


Old friends praise me, "You look thinner!"

I've a secret, I won't keep it

Avoid trouble, don't eat double

Snacks?  Half a chocolate biscuit.


Brain and tummy, like dad and mummy

Fight over who will win this time

Wine? Just one sip, Water first. Win!

Let's fight off hunger writing rhyme.



-ends-

Version one of thi poem read I gihgt off hunger writing rhyme. I thought that was a surprise. I changed it to let's fight off hunger writing rhyme. More inclusive of the reader. A message. Now I'm wondering if the first version was more original. I have left the second version but added this note, so leave it to the poem reader or poem performer to choose.

Let's fight off hunger writing rhyme is also an instruction to yself in the future. Distraction. Distraction activity. 

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