May your coming Year, by Neil Gaiman.

“May your coming year

be filled with

magic

and

dreams

and

good madness.

I hope you read

some fine books

and kiss someone who

thinks you’re

and don’t forget

to make some

art --

write or draw

or build or sing

or live as only you can.

and I hope,

somewhere in the next year,

You surprise yourself".

Neil Gaiman.

The Advertising Blurb by marge.

The Hotel is the biggest place

       We could have ever stayed in

The Hotel offers its guests

       Everything they could ever need.

The Hotel is a “Dream Palace”

       An object of everyone’s fantasies.

The Hotel boasts of eight swimming pools

       Offering “watery delights” for all.

The Hotel has five sumptuous Dining Rooms,

       Catering for all appetites.

The Hotel has an Entertainments Programme,

       Giving endless fun for all ages.

The Hotel in its exotic location,

       Is beyond the pocket of most people.

The Hotel will have to stay in

       The Brochure and my imagination,

       Or, until I win the Lottery!

© Marjorie Lacy.

I am not doing what I should be doing by marge.

Each morning, I tell myself

The list of things to do today.

Things I like to do, want to do

Should do, the minutia of life.

Every day about five o clock

I evaluate my list, what can I

Tick off - the answer is none.

I have not vacuumed the carpets,

Or planted out some plants,

What have I done?

It is wet and windy today

The weather forecast is for worse,

I have made soup, written a poem

Written Christmas Cards,

Washed the clothes and dishes.

I have sat in my chair,

Looking at Facebook, writing comments,

Answered comments and emails.

I have communicated.

Surely that is good,?

My brain is working.

For tomorrow Sunday, the weather will

Be worse, I ask myself,

What will I not do? What surprising

Things will I do instead?

I know I will write, I do every day.

Maybe I will read, with a blanket

Over my knees.

© Marjorie Lacy.

Short Verses on theme of BELIEVE by marge

BELIEVE  -   Acrostic.  

Believe -  Believing - Believed

Excite - Exciting - Excited

Laugh - Laughing - Laughed

Interest - Interesting - Interested

Exhaust - Exhausting - Exhausted

Vouch - Vouching - Vouched

Enjoy - Enjoying - Enjoyed.

Believe in yourself

Excite yourself

Laugh at yourself

Interest yourself

Exhaust yourself

Vouch for your good name

Enjoy yourself.

Every day I believe I will wake up

Every morning I know I will find excitement

Somewhere in the day, I will laugh happily

There will be something interesting to do

I have to exhaust myself so that I can sleep

It is my hope that people will vouch for my good name

When I go to bed I will know I have enjoyed my day.

Believe HAIKU.

Believe in happiness

The sun will rise in the sky

Your day will be good

©Marjorie Lacy. 2018.

Refuge by Stephen Boyce.

What washes up in the forest is no less

a wonder that the flotsam of oceans.

Take this skeleton of an upturned ark

stranded among a reach of ash trees,

beached in leaf litter, its ribs and spars

secured by a rigging of twiggy larch,

tangles of plaited honeysuckle, all

leaning in as though wanting to give ear

to silence, breath the wood's cool must.

Some Crusoe surely built this, laid limbs

against a fallen ridgepole, woven vines

and brushwood spread out a bed of brash,

learned how stillness is a state of mind,

here where things slither, drip and flinch.

Changes by marge.

    

At New Year, we ring out the old

And ring in the new.

Do we change on 1st January?

We may wake up with a hangover

We may wake up with a Resolution

That we may keep or maybe not.

We resolve to change our weight,

To eat less, exercise more. Do we?

We go to the hairdressers and change our hair.

But it does not really change the person.

For a change, we go to another country for our holidays,

But we choose to find the English Bar then Fish and Chips.

There are the internal changes, we grow up - we age

Adolescence makes the teenage years difficult.

For women, the aptly named  ‘Change’

Does change us from confidence to nervousness

For men, they get their change, their mid-life crisis:

Which can have consequences as they try to regain youth?

And then, just for a change, I can mention the change

In your pocket…….

©  Marjorie Lacy.

I Got Weighed Today 11.12.18. By marge.

I weigh myself every Tuesday,

“Just monitoring”, I say

I’m not obsessed you know,

I just need the scales to show.

That I have lost a little bit

BUT, the Scales show some wit

saying I have lost a stone,

But NO, they have no heart,

Its, them that do not do their part.

BUT, I have found a way,

To make them say

I have lost a pound this week,

It is to do with where I place my feet.

Feet apart, I am nine stone three

If I rush to the loo and have a wee.

Back on the scales, feet to the middle.

It tells me I am nine stone two.

Now you know, just like me

To lose weight, you have to see

Where you should place your feet

On the scales, keep them straight

Pointing out or to the middle

BUT,  you also need, It is a riddle,

Is it that rush for the wee?

© Marjorie Lacy Dec. 2018.

Pomfret by John Lund. 1726-1788

Pomfret,     by John Lund, 1726-1788.

If situation hath a power to please

If air salubrious can give ease,

If spacious streets and handsome houses join’d,

Can satisfaction raise within his mind, -

If noble ruins mouldering with rust,

Where ancient monarchs mingle with the dust.

If gardens all around can please the eyes,

Embellished o’re with Flora’s painted dyes, -

If peace and plenty, which doth here abide.

(laying all pique and prejudice aside,)

If charms are these worthy of my song,

Come here, ye grave, ye gay, ye old and young,

Come here and view the subject of my theme,

Confess that Pomfret’s worthy of my esteem.

NOTE: Pomfret is the ancient name for

Pontefract, West Yorkshire, U.K.

Two men looked through Prison Bars by marge.

“Two men looked out through prison bars,

One saw mud the other saw stars”.

This has been something I have lived by

since I was 16 years old, I saw it in a

Readers Digest.

I liked the idea to look up to the stars

not only are they pretty to look at

they light up the night sky.

Astronomers study them, take them

seriously. Lovers gaze at them.

Promising their promises

You can find where the “Dark Sky”

places are, there to lay on your

back and look up and see

the Milky Way.

What a brilliant way

to end your day.

Seeing stars by the million...

Where ever you are,

whatever you do

remember to look up

and see the stars.

It’s good for you!!

©   Marjorie Lacy Dec. 2018.

Mount Teide, Tenerife, Espana by marge.

Mount Teide, Tenerife, Espana.

I stand where I have stood for millennia,

I look down and see, not my own people

Strangers called tourists, pale beings.

Whose aim is to look like a boiled lobster.

How I despair, you people do not care

You leave your litter everywhere.

I look down and see, your rubbish on my slopes.

You, tourists, come and take but, not to give

Is this really the way to live?

For years they have said as a volcano an

Eruption is due, shall I do it,  blow my top?

Make all and everything turn to stew?

How I despair, that people do not care.

I stand. I will stand, for yet more millennia.

Marjorie Lacy.

I heard a Bird Sing by Oliver Hereford.

I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. 

A magical thing. And sweet to remember. 

We are nearer to Spring than we were in September.

I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.

Oliver Herford