Unending Bending

JENNY MATLOCK
http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com.au/
suggests the quotation

UNENDING BENDING
(after Patience Strong)

'Sometimes you bend; sometimes you break'......
Mostly, it's the bending.
The human spirit lifts its game
When problems seem unending.
'I couldn't stand it!' we may say
Thinking of something bad.....
Illness, parting, even death......
Are all too dire and sad.
You expect to go right under,
Drown in the pain and sorrow;
Hide beneath the bed-clothes,
Refusing to face tomorrow.
Human-beings fail to 'break'
Even though bruised and battered,
And though their hopes and dreams sometimes
Are very cruelly shattered.
Time and again we marvel at
The way that we recover;
Our little trees bend in the gale
But don't break, we discover.
(106 words)
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THE SONG OF THE GOLD-DIGGER

(To the tune of 'Hey Look Me Over!')

A parody from one of my melodramas.

Hey look me over!/ I’ve got it made!/ Romping in clover!/ Call a spade a spade/ I’ll have the lolly! / I’ll have the dosh!/ And all of the mud that is on my skirt will come out in the wash!/ And I’ll be up like a rainbow,/ Bright as the sun!/ I’ll see the rain go, / I’ll be number one!/ With a little bit more of the ‘how’s your father’ I’ll escape this slum! / So look out World here I come!/

Hey look at me, folks!/ I’ll get the cash!/ Won’t mess with poor blokes! / I shall be so flash!/ I’ll wear the satin. I’ll wear the silk/ And I‘ll have a servant to scrub my back when I bathe in asses milk!/ For I’ll be up with the nobs, girls,/ Drinking champagne!/ No dirty jobs, girls,/ Working is a pain!/ When you've got all your curves in the chosen places wasting them is dumb!/ So look out World here I come!/

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PS
It being school holidays in this neck of the woods, holiday photos are to the fore. Greg has just sent photos of Max and Harry enjoying a few days in Sydney.

In Hyde Park

On the Manly Ferry

In the Aquarium

On Bondi Beach

Glory Green

THINK-GREEN-THURSDAY
http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/2009/06/think-green-thursday_10.html


An Australian view.
Written in the summer. It's winter now so this tree will be bare.


GLORY GREEN

In other climes this Glory Green

Would be a sight quite often seen,

But, here, where gums are everywhere

And trees are hardly ever bare,

This tree stood-out as though on show,

With a brilliant phosphorescent glow.

Among the eucalypts it grew

Looking bright and fresh and new.

Oh they will last the whole year round,

And everywhere they may be found,

And, yes, their green is pleasing too,

With a gentle almost olive hue.

And, in the winter, this bright tree

Will be as stark as a tree can be!

But, for the moment, it is seen,

Rejoicing in its Glory Green.

Green, green, green here:
http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2008/07/56-lanes-of-lincolnshire.html