Chrysanthemum

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CHRYSANTHEMUM

(An Acrostic)

Coiled in the bud who'd imagine
How glorious the flower would be
Radiating spikes of splendour
Yet with neat regularity

Sunshine is its partner
Autumn is its season
Nature's golden firework

The dying days the reason
Head held high in the flower-bed
Each petal bound to fall
Mortality is lurking
Unhappily. for us all.

Men and flowers all must fade;
Whether in the sun or shade.

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THE BONNET BEE

There's a bee in my bonnet, an insistent bee,

That buzzes and buzzes constantly.

Over the years I've loudly cried

'Spelling should be simplified!'

Texting is latching-on right now,

Simplifying and showing us how

We can say the things we need

Merely with sounds that we can read.

'OUGH' need not trip the unwary!

Spelling need not be so scary.

When I think of the endless years

With learning to spell causing groans and tears!

It doesn't have to be that way!

What we see can be what we say.

I proved it in my long career

And now I reiterate it here!

Forty sounds are all we need

To write in a way that others can read.

Purists will say 'Ah, but our T.O.*

Is the only way to go.

The beauty of the Mother Tongue,

Whether read or said or sung

Must be preserved for evermore;

And you have shocked us to the core'.

But the English language has chopped and changed,

Altered and wildly rearranged;

Picked up foreign bits here and there

Over the years, with a certain flair.

It's a bastard language, refined or coarser;

Or we'd all spell the same as Chaucer!

There's so much more that I could say

But........it doesn't have to be that way!

* Traditional Orthography

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