Gadzookery



ABC WEDNESDAY

GADZOOKERY

Are you into writing plays
With other manners, other ways?
Are your characters Earls and Dukes?

 Then let them utter the word 'Gadzooks'.

That's a word that sets the stage

For oaths of a very different age.

The fact that they were all blaspheming,

Should have sent the audience screaming.

'God's Hooks!', the nails of the Crucifixion

Have been added to your little fiction.

Be that as it may, it's a useful phrase

For setting the scene in amateur plays.
Melodramatic bits of frippery
Need a bit of bodice-rippery!

So use Gadzookery if you must,

Then launch into frilly-costumed lust.

The gent above spies  a lady's hips

And the word 'Gadzooks' is on his lips!

Are your characters Earls and Dukes?

Then let them utter the word 'Gadzooks'.

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WINDOW ON WATER

Outside the heat is blistering;

In here the air is cool.

There's the gentle ripple-ripple

Of the lovely turquoise pool.

With the sparkle of the sunlight

Twinkling in each direction

We can build a little fantasy

Of weather-wise perfection.

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PS

No photo, but I had a heart-stopping experience early yesterday morning! VERY early! It was just before two a.m. and I couldn't sleep, so I got up to blog (as you do!) Imagine my horror when this message, or something very like it, met my eyes.....'Illegal activity! This blog has been removed!' I have no idea what lay behind it! I was asked to send my mobile phone number and then a verification number was sent to it. I clicked on it and all was well. But what if I hadn't got a mobile phone (many of my elderly friends haven't.)! I was so horrified by the whole episode (it would have been the end of my blogging after nearly four years) that I woke Malcolm to share my distress and he had to make me a cup of tea to calm me down! Quite a night!