Observising

ABC WEDNESDAY


OBSERVISING!

Odder and odder! The world's gone mad!

Behold a word we never had!

Supervising is quite alright;

Even correcting an oversight.

Regarding something is commonplace.

Very rarely out of place.

I've never heard of observising!

So seeing it was quite surprising!

It's human nature to watch and view

Now one word has been made from two!

Goodness! Did we really need it?

I can hardly bear to read it!
And yet this novel word exists!
Add it to your Googled lists!
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LADY JANE GREY

Do you recall being  seventeen?

I was carefree, hedonistic,

Romantic, giggly,

And utterly self-engrossed.

So, I suspect, were you.

We were teenagers.

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The illustration is grey;

There could be no other colour for it.

The lady is Grey;

Lady Jane Grey.

Surely the weather was grey.

Tattered clouds must have

Swept across the sky.

Light rain must have fallen.

She could have saved herself

By choosing one form of Christianity

Over another.

'No big deal' some would say.

But she refused.

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'I am ready to face death'

She said.

'I will gladly suffer death

If it is Her Majesty's pleasure'

She said.

'God grant you all your desires'

She said.

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She recited a psalm.

She gave her gloves and prayer book to friends.

She tied her own scarf

Around her own eyes.

She forgave her executioner

'Most willingly'.

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'Lord,

Into Thy hands

I commend my spirit.'

'And so', the account says,

'She ended.'

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She was seventeen.

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If there is a Heaven,

She is a teenager there.
I hope she's a 'Dancing Queen'.
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