Memetics!

MEMETICS!

Richard Dawkins, eat your heart out 

(Him wot invented memes)!

For now your invention's being used 

In all sorts of harebrained schemes!

Take the Blogs for instance; there, every day, appears,

A little meme of some sort to settle between my ears.

I feel a sort of compulsion to do my very best!

I've simply got to write something. It's rather like a test!

But, in the immediate future, I just won't have the time

To fiddle about with silly little nonsenses in rhyme.

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Malcolm's coming up for eighty; there are parties to be planned.

Jottings from on-line recipe books lie round on every hand.

Then the melodramas are active, three shows coming up quite soon,

Plus concerts by the choir at which I try to sing in tune. 

Furthermore, we're going to Sydney for three days on the town

Expending lots of energy just wandering up and down.

All in all, I'll have a busy time, with activities and schemes.

So, I repeat, I'm weaning myself away from those wretched memes!

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But

I can't quite go cold turkey; the attraction still persists.

The shock of a no-meme fortnight might make me slash my wrists!

So here they are, my entries for next week, abbreviated,

Hoping that, in this way, my frustration's eliminated!

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BLUE MONDAY

http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Harry swims very well now, but here he is at the start.

A Blue Boy in blue water warms the cockles of my heart!

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MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

http://mellowyellowmonday.blogspot.com/

Rather a starling warning to those who might happen to be

A little bit closer than they should be to electricity!

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RUBY TUESDAY

http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/

Here's the proverbial 'red rag', coloured red to hide the blood!

And here's the proverbial Matador landing in the mud!

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MAXINE ON SATURDAY 
http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/

I'd love to write in Upper Case, if Net Etiquette allowed!

Because I'm that sort of person, inclined to be QUITE LOUD!

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COLOR CARNIVAL 
http://colorcarnivalmeme.blogspot.com/

Fifty little cupcakes for the birthday of a friend.

I thought that they were rather cute and sure to start a trend!

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SKYWATCH

http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Photographed in South Africa, the famous Table Cloth cloud,

Which hovers over the mountain like a white and filmy shroud.

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REFLECTIONS

http://newtowndailyphoto.blogspot.com/

A fund-raising Pink Party in aid of charity.

The reflections in the pink balloons were beautiful to see.

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TUESDAY TRIVIA

http://i-refuse-to-recede.blogspot.com/2010/03/tuesday-trivia-tie-in-4.html

Seen in a display window, always there on view,

Aussie uniforms from past wars, chiefly World War Two.

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MOTION THURSDAY

http://motionthursday.wordpress.com/

Blake at an earlier age leaping in and out of the sea.

A picture of tremendous joy, or so it seems to me.

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WATERY WEDNESDAY

http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/

I was visiting The Japanese Gardens when I saw these colourful pike.

Swimming up for titbits was what they seemed to like.

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SHADOW SHOT

The steps leading down to the Ocean Baths are nearly worn away,

But a shadow seems to soften them on a lovely sunny day.

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THAT'S MY WORLD

http://showyourworld.blogspot.com/

The Hunter Valley vineyards stretch greenly to the hills.

A visit to those vineyards seems a cure for all life's ills!

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So there! I'm done and dusted! The weeks that lies ahead

Can be faced with equanimity, not meme-deprivation dread!

So I'll hie me to the recipe books and packing for my trip,

Knowing that a week of memes  hasn't given me the slip!

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