Money Secrets Revealed: comical poem 730 by Angela Lansbury

New hats and clothes give us a thrill

Our heart sinks when we see the bill

Money comes in, quickly goes out

Like sweet honey, won't hang about 

Window cleaners give house a fizz

No point in taking references

On every count they're bound to fail

They gladly tell shock tales of gaol

The government and common man

All follow one same simple plan

Here's a clue into what they do

Spend! Me first, family - last you

Glum accountants keep our accounts

Warns we, and they, spent large amounts

'The world's debts will end in sorrow.' 

'Spend today - we'll die tomorrow!'

-ends-

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Today's Tomorrow comic poem by Angel Lansbury number .474..

 I had such a delightful day 

With family, old and new friends

Sweet food and good thoughts flowed my way

Who'd want such a sweet day to end

But when with shock I saw the clock

Careless joy was turned to sorrow

What I thought was early today

Already early tomorrow 

I must protect body and head

Be good always do the right thing

Tiptoe to welcome soft-hard bed

Remove glittery rhinestone rings

Green fish ring. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I let myself sink in a dream

Where soothing nonsense words are heard 

Where mud seem to be bright and clean

Magic glamour of the absurd

All jumbled up was my whole week

I'd fallen in a coffee cup

Maybe my toe caught in the sheet

Over sugar rocks, I climbed up

In dreams I'm young and I am bold

Although my right leg's feeling cold

And I forget I'm getting old

Tomorrow will be good I'm told

I happily made my escape

Out of my bed, grab, I'm falling

The light told me it was daybreak

Hot breakfast croissant was calling

Well, life moves on, what can I say

Tomorrow now is yesterday

'though its tomorrow's now today

Hurray, future's still far away.

-ends- 

The title is ambiguous. It could mean the tomorrow of today, or the tomorrow is today.

I need to protect my body and head - more than my eight syllable pattern, I must protect body and head - that's eight syllables.

Bedtime Story - Home and Away Day Post 451b revision of comic poem 451 by Angela Lansbury

 Life's more fun when you're big, and three

Climb stairs, stand on chairs, feel at home

Open the top fridge on your own

You can reach strawberries for tea!

She likes to eat a blueberry

For breakfast, lunch, dinner and tea

She eats a stoned olive, takes two

Frowns, thinks of handing one to you

Her little shoes are on the floor

A pair beside the big front door

We ask her, 'Dear, whose are these shoes?

These pretty shoes, reds, pinks and blues?'

She picks up a shoe, she smiles and says

'This shoe is mine!' That shoe is mine!'

She opens the door. Weather's fine

Ready!. Let's go . Have a good time

 

Her favourite outing's a nearby park

She loves swings, ropes and the long slide

We leave to get home before it's dark

Then she sleeps on a short car ride (possible ending at bedtime!)

Little Ava has lots of friends

With birthday parties most weekends

But when she has a day that's free

She goes out with her family

She likes to eat with family

Sit on sofas to watch TV

Twice small Ava rode on a boat

Her life jacket can float, on sea

Child wearing life jacket. Photo from Sharot Family. Copyright.

 Little Ava has lots of friends

With birthday parties most weekends

But when she has a day that's free

She's out, or in, with family.

-ends-

The Little Summer Swimmer

The Little Summer Swimmer
by Hazel Nutter

Every morning you can see me take my early morning swim
Later in the grassy shadow, larking in my improvised gym

My family is large - half a dozen brothers and sisters
So when one of them went missing, when young, we hardly missed her

You may sit watching, glad you're human, from your carved and painted log
But I think I'm the lucky one, having been born a frog.
-ends-
2018 MAY 3RD
Hazel Nutter also known as (H) Angela Lansbury

My Funny Family (version 7) poem by Angela Lansbury

My Funny Family
by Angela Lansbury

My family is very strange
But they are extremely funny
Some of them are obscenely rich
Won't help us who beg for money

My mother talked for twenty years
But never stopped to pause for breath
Father always smiled and nodded
Nobody noticed he was deaf

Dear Mum didn't think it mattered
After we lost my mother, dear
I asked my widowed Dad, 'Tea? Tea?"
And realised he could not hear.

My uncle played the violin
Better than all, than me or you
Won scholarships, played on cruise ships
A fine player, but stone deaf, too!

Played for radio, BBC
A fine player, not one wrong note
He left me books on lip-reading
He'd been deaf as an old, dead goat.

Poor Uncle's toilet filled with weed
He had no cash for a plumber
Instead he taught one the trumpet
Yet the toilets stank all summer

My son says, "You're the weirdest one
'Cos you write comic poetry!"
I can't see why he thinks I'm odd
My family's more strange than me.

-ends.

 Copyright Angela Lansbury, May 12 2017.

Grammatically it should end more strange than I am but me rhymes. Poet's license.

Travellers Searching

Travellers Searching

by Angela Lansbury

I was always looking for another

I was searching for the perfect lover

Somebody else, that special somebody

But the secret of joy was down to me

My parents let me go said they were glad

I’d travel and see things they never had

Things were better when I wrote a letter

Only later I knew that they’d been sad

I thought that I had found the perfect lover

He said he’d leave his family for me

I promised I’d stay friends right to the end

But first I’d go home to my family

I knew my childhood home was the winner

I arrived just in time, one last dinner

My lover wasn’t cold but soon sick and old

My dreams of a new home were not to be

My childhood’s in this faded photograph

My parents are happy and we all laugh

I know that happiness is home all the while

So I smile at small children, wave and smile,

I sit contented in my rocking chair

I’m just happy to know carers are there

Work and the world’s riches don’t worry me

I’m happy with my friends and family..

Alternative ending

I chant, sing and rock endless in my chair

I gratefully grab carers who stand there

Work, rain and riches no longer knock me

My lottery win's friends and family.

-ends-

Copyright Angela Lansbury

2016 March 23rd

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