I don't care if it's Photo-Shopped!
I don't care if it's merged and cropped!
I don't care if it's quite unreal!
The image has a magical feel.
In unison, the little red feet
Perform this quite amazing feat!
Asiatics are represented
As people who are regimented!
We picture the ultimate precision,
The mind-over-matter firm decision,
The power to spring up and obey
In a very, very un-Western way.
In the West, a spring like this
Would be a matter of hit or miss.
Some little girls would be seen mid-leap,
And three or four would be fast asleep!
Some would be looking to left or right;
Some would be at a too-high height!
In the West we muddle-through;
Apart from the stunning one or two
Who actually achieve perfection
While the rest of us look in another direction.
But I always picture the youth of China.....
Every one a toe-the-liner,
Submitting to discipline night and day
Leaping in a concerted way!
O.K.! It's probably Photo-Shopped!
And maybe such trickery should be stopped!
But this to me looks very Chinese!
Don't try to disenchant me, please!
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CAMOUFLAGE!
I'm an alligator off to a party
Camouflaged as a tree!
If you saw me in the grey-green water
You never would recognise me!
I think it's a wonderful costume!
It'll fool you on closer inspection!
I look quite harmless, don't I,
Swimming in your direction!
Just your normal funny old tree-trunk.
How could that ever do any harm?
But, on my way to the party,
I might bite off your arm!
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PS
More poetry today, out at The Lake. I visited a Probus Club at Valentine and I used to live by the lake in my earlier Newcastle days so it was quite a nostalgic visit. One lady came up to me and told me that I had taught her son! He must be middle-aged now. I didn't get any photos of me spouting my poetry, but here are two of the surroundings.
The meeting-room had glorious views over the lake but the photo doesn't show them.
This is the actual view.
Cute kids!
ReplyDeleteHappy RT.
Mine's here.
Those are great fun! You're amazingly prolific!
ReplyDeleteEven I don't care if it's photo-shopped, Just like you.
ReplyDeleteIts really cute, so many red little shoes. :)
I had to look twice at this picture...Photo shop is fun to play with! cute littl girls in red slippers!
ReplyDeleteI suppose that in some cultures conformity is prized, individuality not so much. The girls are adorable whether or not the motion shown is carefully choreographed - digitally or otherwise...
ReplyDeleteAs for the lake illusion, I will not feed the log (or 'gator if we prefer), making sure my fingers remain attached to the rest of my hand...