840 - Odd Loose Ends

Odd Loose Ends

(Tune : Auld Lang Syne)

The year is coming to a close,

It’s time to make amends;

Time to bring some order to

The odd loose ends.

Chorus:

The odd loose ends must go, I fear,

The odd loose ends;

We’ll take the trimming shears

To odd loose ends.

Life is better when it’s neat,

Trimmed of what offends,

The first things you must offload are

The odd loose ends.

Chorus.

The camel knew than the single straw

Gives a back that bends,

They build up upon each other,

The odd loose ends.

Chorus.

Acquaintances are both well and fine 

But nothing beats good friends,

Make more room by discarding

The odd loose ends.

Chorus.

New projects will bring you joy,

With happy dividends,

Close the book on lost causes

And odd loose ends.

Chorus.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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839 - Operation Manual

Mad Kane has a weekly limerick challenge.

She provides the rhyme word, the rest is up to us.

This week the word is ‘lewd’, bless her.

Operation Manual

The Karma Sutra is frequently viewed

As wicked, licentious and lewd.

But it’s simply recounting

How a consensual mounting,

Should start, progress and conclude.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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838 - Stony Indifference

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

to use the three words of the week in a composition.

The words this week are: savage, vengeful and tense

Stony Indifference

The planet is most bountiful

And so sustains its riders.

As it has done, age to age,

A generous provider.

Diverse, its passengers

Pillage their most generous host;

Destroying what is beautiful

In a race to own the most.

And what will they have got?

Carnage, in the most tragic sense

If we do not act respectful,

The future is past tense.

And yet we must not forget,

Savage, though scrupulously fair,

A planet cannot be vengeful,

It doesn’t even care.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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837 Lackadaisical Sunday

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

to use the three words of the week in a composition.

The words this week are: lackadaisical, makeshift, and nude.

Plus a bonus extra.

Apologies, by the way.

Haven't written much lately.

Been doing stained glass work.

Lackadaisical Sunday

Lackadaisical

There is nothing wrong with that:

It’s time to think.

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A woman who hated folk nude

Found the modern-day fashions too crude

But beneath all her clothes

Where no-one else goes,

She was as naked as those she eschewed.

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We plan our future.

The future has other plans.

They can overlap.

It’s a makeshift life.

All the plans of yesterday

Are just a guideline.

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There once was a fellow called Dave,

Who lathered his balls for a shave.

But an unsteady hand

Had an result, unplanned—

No children to mourn at his grave.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015

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