Showing posts with label Satnav. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Satnav. Show all posts

Friday, November 21, 2025

Teeth And More comical poem 689 by Angela Lansbury

 


Thank God for whitening tootbpaste

For vaseline and vapour

Thank God for supermarkets

Thank God for soft toilet paper


Thank God for Satnav

For lawn mowers and combs

For cameras and waste disposal

For Zoom and mobile phones


Thank God for palm trees

Deck chairs, hammocks, sandy beaches

Dates and figs and kiwi fruit

Bananas and soft peaches  


Thank God for the internet

For pets, bushes and bones

For pens and pencils

So you'll never be alone


Thank God for history

About the bad old days

For the weather forecast

For seasons change to sunny days


Thank God for newspapers

And AI to solve all mystery

Thank God that after tragedy

We can turn to comedy


Thank God when I'm old or tired

The country has young leaders

Thank God for writers

Poets, printers and readers.

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Friday, February 21, 2025

Two Lime Green Cars comic poem 519 by Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury with her lime green car. Photo by Trevor Sharot. 


 My lime green car looks smart,  brand new

Drivers wave if they have one, too

Though really a very old car

Reliable, it takss me far


My speed's a conservative pace

An old car but with low mileage

I loved the zipped  parcel shelf space

Its small boot takes too much luggage


Alas one day on the M4

A car behind like tanks in war

Rear-ended me, (no rain to blame)

Hit barrier, stopped in fast lane


A lorry driver ran to help

I gasped, 'I'm ok,  block this lane!'

He turned his truck diagonally

Seen for miles, so no added pain


My car had spun right around

And scattered green metal on the ground

And there I stopped

My fault? It was not


My husband still says

It was your fault, driving too slow

He wants to share, but wasn't there

So he could not know


The AA drove me to the station

I was glad to hear what they thought

A car behind must leave room to stop

So the car behind - it's their fault


We looked for a new old car

we looked high and low

On the intenet

And, what do you know?


My husband says lime's a darker hue

I should call mine pistacchio

Just imagine a luminous green

Mine was the cleanest car you've ever seen


We found a newer old car in lime - or pistacchio

A BBC voice tells we where to go

I do not use the zip up space for maps

I use Satnav or google apps


It's another car, but looks just the same

Every day I feel like I've won life's game.

The colour still thrills me, I don't have to drive

Just looking at my green car makes me feel alive.


When you lose something, what to do?

Soemtimes a chance to try what's new

Sometimes, you'll find you don't complain

If you replace it with the same.

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Lorry is British English and truck is American English but truck is recognized.

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