Clocks, Locks And Socks comical poem 663 by Angela Lansbury Copyright

Watch to watch. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. 

 Clocks, Locks And Socks comical poem 66 by Angela Lansbury

I yawn - put clock faces away

I'll treat late afternoon like night

I shrug, put watch and phone away

Later I'll turn night into day

Forced to get up when nature calls

I see it's three, it's not yet light

That's how I guess that it's still night

Don't turn on lights, just hold the walls

I feel awake, go back to bed

Silk pillow's waiting for my head

I yawn and sigh, kick off my socks

I know it's night, I don't need clocks

I yawn and sigh and sigh and yawn

Can't sleep - yet suddenly it's dawn

I turn over, then check the clocks

I've overslept, that is a shock

I hear the bell, I hear loud knocks

I find my shoes, hunt, seek my socks

Unlock, Parcels. I sign, re-lock

Not yet mid-day! Good news from clocks!

It's getting late, I'm short of time

Sorry, I must re-use old rhyme

No-one's ignored me if they mock

I've won more time, beaten the clock.

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The Speaker's Confession (Comic poem 134)

A Speaker's Club's President wears many hats

Getting speakers to speak free's as hard as herding cats

'I'm working late, again,' they say, 'I really have to work, 

I know you are important, and - I do not mean to shirk ...'

If you go online you can see me everywhere

You'll be shocked that I'm prepared to speak - although I'm not prepared

If another speaker disappears, at first it seems a pain

But I get one more chance to speak, that's why it's me again!

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Angela Lansbury in orange wig with puppet. Selfie photo by Angela Lansbury.

Yesterday's Rain Again Pain - Wiped By The Blessing Of Amnesia

Angela with silver-lined umbrella. Photo by Trevor Sharot, edited and cropped by Angela.

The blue sky said no umbrella
I strolled off in strong sunshine
All day long it's bright, no change
Except the gradual drip of time

The day's blue sky a fading dream
When I reached the edge of town
The path looked like a river
The rain was pouring, pounding down

Then when I left the station
I faced a dreadful shock
The clouds had emptied bucketloads
To drench each road and rock and block

The morning's sunshine haunts me
A dream I can't forget.
My sandals slosh through water
I hop from dry through swirling wet

The water's wet and dirty black
The only way's uphill and on
There's no point turning back
Just think, next year, this will be gone

What blessings come from water?
This monsoon could go on for days
It must make the flowers and trees grow
I hope the mist dispels the haze

My clothes cling wet, my hair hangs wet
I look like a half-drowned rat
I'm half way home, but not there yet
Rain cares not if you're thin or fat

I should have left home earlier

I should have packed spare socks

I should have done a hundred things

Not biked uphill past riverside rocks

My umbrella is far too small

The cloud is far too big

I should have worn a sombrero

Wellingtons and a wig

A journey of ten minutes
An obstacle race, takes half an hour
Strangers make friends, we share this war
They advise me, 'Have a hot shower!'

                

 ***

Next day by the pool, in sun again
Where the elderly can't remember
That yesterday it poured with rain
Their mind's in life's dead December.

The advantage of amnesia
Is that you forget bad days
If you suffer from dementia
You forget rain, complaints and praise

'It rained,' I say, 'it poured last night
That thunderstorm - you must have heard?
The sun, then rain?' I'll save such scenes
Preserve wet weather with wise words

I can move the memory away

My words paint over yesterday

And warm the world with what I say:

'Today's a lovely sunny day!'

Angela Lansbury

Revised Monday March 7th 2022. Copyright