Varied View

REFLECTIONS

VARIED VIEW

The reflections are all of a jumble

Architecture is the cause;

Panes of glass resemble windows

But these are internal doors

So a little of the outside's captured

And I'm viewing the internal scene,

But I'm standing in the sunroom

Which is sort of like a space between.

So cushions are jumbled with garden

And a picture is mixed with a tree,

And there, to the left, with my camera 

Is little old mixed-up me!

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THE PINCH OF SALT!

Take everything with a pinch of salt;

Then you're not disappointed

When considering our leaders,

Those whom 'the lord's anointed'!

Sometimes they believe, themselves,

The whoppers that they're speaking,

And cannot really understand

The havoc that they're wreaking!

They're just as surprised as we are

When the flying carpet drops,

And pie-in-the-sky just stays up there,

And the great idea just flops!

But some there are who know full well

That they're telling great big lies

And yet they've learned to gaze at us

With soulful, truthful eyes!

Out from the TV screens they gaze

With 'honesty' and passion,

They never even seem to twitch

In the well-known guilty fashion!

Better far to doubt it all,

Every message that arises,

Hoping, against all hope it seems

For 'he-told-the-truth!' surprises!

Your cause is hopeless, dear Maxine!

You're crying for the moon!

I hope the genuine article

Turns up somewhere soon!

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