Show Yourself!



POETRY TOW-TRUCK
http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/
suggests talking to someone who can't answer-back.

SHOW YOURSELF!

(Not written from experience!)

Where are you hiding, honey?

(No, that's not a sign of affection.)

Are you lurking behind the mayonnaise,

Leering in my direction?

Oh. here's that left-over potato

From the day before yesterday;

I'll eat it while I'm hunting;

Oh no it's turned all grey!

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Where are you hiding, honey?

On the top or bottom shelf?

"A place for everything", Mother said.

Come on! Show yourself!

What's this in the blue container?

The remains of some Peking Duck!

I'll take a little look at it.

Open the lid a bit.........Yuk!

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Where are you hiding , honey?

You've made me knock over the cream!

My toast's getting cold on the table!

In a second I'm going to scream.

All I ask is a spoonful of honey

Of the Julie Andrew's type.

Oooh! What's this blob in the corner?

It certainly smells pretty ripe!

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Oh there you are, stupid honey'

I've discovered where you are.

Now I'll continue my breakfast.

Oh no! It's an empty jar!

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Great Zimbabwe

ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwe? It's surely a country or state?

Why should a ruin be known as 'Great'?

What's the significance of this

Strange, unusual edifice?

First the name....it means, they say,

'Large Building' said the Shona way.

These ruins are ancient; a thousand years old,

But no-one's sure what they used to hold.

Thousands of Africans may have existed

Within these walls, now heritage listed.

What we see is only the heart

Of extensive buildings, a tiny part,

For Great Zimbabwe at one time covered

Hundreds of miles, as they've now discovered.

Between the Limpopo and Zambezi

Finding gold was very easy,

So the founders of Great Zimbabwe, for sure,

Were very rich, with gold in store.

The Europeans, when they arrived,

Doubted that Africans had contrived

To build such a solid monument;

They said Africans were too indolent.

'Surely' they said 'Only men of our race

Could have built such a very important place!'

But, as has been proved by carbon dating,

Zimbabwe is old, as some had been stating.

When old 'Rhodesia' at last became free

The Africans thought what its name could be

And 'Zimbabwe!' they shouted with one voice,

It was nearly everybody's choice.

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