Let's Not!

RUBY TUESDAY

LET'S NOT!

I'm a member of a generation

Brought up respecting punctuation.

I no longer really fret

About its daily use, and yet

I can see it has some uses,

Though there are some who make excuses

For slapdash writing, saying that

'All that old stuff is old hat!'

But, see above! There are occasions,

Really vital situations,

When a tiny comma can make a mark

Preserving Grandpa's vital spark!

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CHILD ABUSE 

(An Acrostic)

Children are our future, our immortality.

How anyone can harm a child is beyond belief to me.

It horrifies and saddens anyone with half a heart!

Listening to tales of horror tears us all apart.

Demons must inhabit those who harm our little ones.

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All are someone's daughters; all are someone's sons!

Babies in the cradle sometimes lack security!

Unless we all watch out for them how sad their lives will be!

Sympathy is not enough! Raise a banner high!

Everybody has a duty to heed each small child's cry.
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PS

Carole organised a particularly pleasant walk for Saturday. We car-pooled and went to Swansea to walk along the Channel. The weather was blustery but spring-like and we took 6000 steps! We walked back through the town invading a few dress-shops before we had a tasty lunch at the RSL and came home. A great day.

Off we go!

Spring has sprung.

Five old wrecks!

Badly lit but otherwise good of everyone.

Maureen, Barbara, Gloria, Pam, Nancy, Jan, Carole and me.

Onomatoepeia!

                                                                

ONOMATOEPEIA!
(On-a-mat-a-pee-ya)

  Onomatoepeia! What a most exciting word!

I find I use it almost every day!

And there are more  examples that, as yet, I haven't heard!

And most of them are such great fun to say.

I'd be loudly shouting 'Tuxtax!' if I lived in ancient Rome

Intending to give someone else a whack.

I'd be saying 'Dokidoki!' if Tokyo was my home

And I was speaking of a heart-attack!

Take the truly great example that's illustrated here, 

Say 'Splat!' and then it's there, in your mind's eye,

It could be a well-aimed snowball that smacks one on the ear,
Or a fly-swat that gets a passing fly.
And think of all the animals whose voices we portray
In simple words that get the sound off-pat.
There's the 'Woof-woof!' and the 'Quack-quack' and the 'Oink-oink!' and the 'Neigh!",
And don't forget the "Meow!' of the cat!
I think all language started with an imitation sound;
A caveman must have instituted 'Plop!'
And other people liked it and so it spread around.
Goodness gracious, is it ever going to stop!