Road Rage

ABC WEDNESDAY

ROAD RAGE
(An Acrostic)

Ridiculous behaviour! Thoughtless and obscene!

Only an idiot would rage, if you know what I mean.

As though we can't cooperate and use the roads together

Decently taking heed of special needs and tricky weather.

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Rude gestures never ever help they only make us mad

As for fights, there's not a one that isn't really bad!

Get wise, you drivers! Learn to share the only roads we've got!

Ending as a statistic doesn't help an awful lot!

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LEFT BEHIND

I am not prone to nightmares but one lingers in my mind,

It involves being with people and being left behind.

As a child there were always railings that inhabited my dream;

I touched a railing, stuck to it and couldn't even scream.

And my mother and her friend just kept on walking on and on!

They didn't even look around to see where I had gone!

And the scream I made was in my head; I didn't make a sound,

And there was nothing I could do to make them look around.

I remember my mother chatting with her usual animation,

With absolutely no concern for my dreadful situation.

I can't remember how it ended; I suppose I just awoke

And, in the morning sunlight the whole thing seemed a joke.

This photograph has captured the nightmare I recall.

That sense of being Left Behind that can assail us all.

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PS

Especially for Mike and Joy, two people I know look-in regularly. We performed 'Tiddly Pom' again yesterday evening, for a Church Group. This was the first time since last February. Unfortunately, I forgot to hand-over my camera to someone in the audience to take pictures, so I just took a few while we were having snacks afterwards. It was a very successful evening.

Here is Joy herself, with our mutual friend, Jill.

Here we have Yvonne, Pam and Shirley, with another Pam at far right. The jazzy-looking one is still dressed as the Chief Bridesmaid.

This photo is hopelessly out of focus but I quite like it of Malcolm and me.