When I'm looking for a good friend
I think, 'Am I a useful friend?;
When I am looking at myself
I check my words show mental health
When I visit a friend for tea
When a friend comes to visit me
When I'm asked around for dinners
Host and guest, are we both winners?
We take our child around to play
Don't want sad tales of yesterday
We want to eat today, and more
Not tears about hunger before
We're ill and call a hospital
We want to meet a smiling nurse
Not one in tears about a death -
An ambulance, and not a hearse
As parent, nurse, doctor, teacher
Writer, author, mentor, preacher
Our job is to give out good news
Not dwell on the unlucky few
If you call me to call today
My reply reflects what you say
If I can hear your smiling face
I'll rush my smiles round to your place.
-ends-
The numbers on my comical poem posts are useful in several ways.
1 They enable me, and you, to find a poem even if I changed the title.
2 They enable me to search for a recent or early poems.
3 I can compare styles and themes of early and late poems.
4 I can keep numerical track of proportions of themes, eg 20 out of 100 poems are on a particular.
subject.
5 I can see whether I can publish all my poems in one book, or if a book is 100 poems, or 50, or 25, or 250, or a bumper 500, how many books can I publish, taking into account the printer's limit on pages, the cost to me as self-publisher, and the cost to potential buyers. Am I better off publishing an e-book?
6 I can work out how long it would take to read all my poems to select some for a book, the best ones, or those on a particular theme, assuming a theme is easier to sell.
