[Brydo]

Mike you know I love your ditties so if your up for it could you do one covering brexit, coronavirus and xmas, no pressure then ?

As I’ve said before you should put them all in a book, I would buy it.

 

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[Mike 700]

Just to warm you up?

 

Well well, A poem about pork
Quickly there woman Hand me my fork
Just look at that apple sauce &
wow that mouthwatering crackling
Piled up On my plate For me to be tackling

Oh what a lovely way to grow plumper
Outgrowing i’ll bet my new reindeer & penguin jumper
What’s that you say wifelet there some Christmas pud left
You know if it’s wasted I’ll just be bereft

Any brandy cream to go with that plum duff
Oye,Don’t call me those names, makes you sound ever so rough
I know that the festivities and now this beautiful pork
Have made me look a bit like an efilump not like a racing stork

But calling me porker now that’s not very nice
And making fun of my fat belly not just once but now twice
you’ll be giving me a complex , and putting me offee
Finishing my meal with that hot mince pie & coffee

So, OK folks it does tend to sit ’round our middle
But d’ya know what I really don’t give much of a fiddle
Disability has already taken over my life
And to fight yet another battle, with weight – nah, just too much strife

So folks let ‘s just enjoy ourselves for what we are
A little rounder perhaps but What The Hell, each one a star
Let’s all keep using this forum, no fighting just eating and living
Plum Duff yes , but respect for viewpoints others are giving

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

 

[Mike 700]

Christmas comes but once a year
Once too much for some like me I fear
All that hustle, bustle and expense
Shoppers searching so intense.

But shoppers take so little time
To notice disabilities like mine
Banging and bumping me out of the way
Just to get stuff they can get any day

Christmas shopping fever has altered their mind
One track only searching for that special ‘find’
And people with a disability are a nuisance to them
‘Get out of my way you silly old men’

Can’t you see your holding me up, and some
I must get more shopping before this day is done
otherwise I’ll miss all the bargains , you understand me
Go play in the traffic I really don’t care that you have a disability

Ah well I think I’ll have a Coffee in Starbucks instead
For out of the way is better than dead
I’ll stay there until shoppings over for you
Yes i’ll be occupying a table I know , but what can you do

I’m past caring what you & others will think
I’ll just be oblivious and slurp up my drink
’cause shopping to me is oh such a curse
And it’s not just from having an empty pensioner’s purse

sitting there watching that madding crowd
Does make me want to shout out ever so loud
Lemmings and sheep are acting like you
Calm down my dears or a heart attacks due

Yes Christmas comes but once a year
I love it of course with family dear
But only when the shopping is done
And then we relax and have us some fun

 

 

[Mike 700]

I’ll try and get one together, with a bit of humour.

This one is about getting together at Christmas –

 

We were sitting there at Christmas reminiscing

About those guys we knew who went missing

In that God awful place called SouthVietnam

Where we flew sorties over old Que Son

 

Jack had come to visit me from

home in Aberdeen town in bustling Hong Kong

He’s lived there since late 1973

With Beautiful wife and children numbered three

 

His tours of duty in that Southern theatre

Had changed his life and made him go back later

He’d met his wife in the last days of duty

Where he got her safely out of Saigon City

 

’cause by then he was no longer actively flying

Working hard instead in equipment buying

Kit and arms for forward units and men

And was quite successful at it and then

 

The NVA and Vietcong paid a call

And Jack thought must get out , staff and all

On the staff was future wife ‘Lee Chun’

Little did he know then what was to come

 

Escaped the city in the then normal way

By chopper and to a carrier parked in the bay

Repatriated in days to Pensacola City

Not with Lee Chun though more’s the pity

 

So off he went after resigning his comm

Off to look on the Isle of Hong Kong

And there she was waiting and not hard to find

They looked for each other, two of a kind,

 

So now you know why we were sitting there drinking

At Christmas time with the fairy lights blinking

Toasting some friends who couldn’t be here

And wishing all others a Happy New Year

[Brydo]

Absolutely brilliant, just read them out to my wife and father-in-law they both liked them very much.

What a talent you have there Mike.

Thanks ?

[Brydo]

Of course mike it could have been

”the way I read them” ?

[Mike 700]

What is it about Christmas that makes us oh so happy
Has it lost it’s meaning is it now just about that tubby bearded chappy
Or for some is it still a religious sort of thing
That makes us so happy and wanting loud to sing

I and oh so many others seem to have forgotten the true meaning
And for me these days all this spend spend spend is oh so demeaning
I’d really like us to get back to the true non commercial reason
For this happy but also religious Christmas season

But times have changed and it’s no good regretting
That the true meaning of Christmas we’re all so easily forgetting
We all must move on as they now constantly say
But we can still celebrate Christmas in our own little way
.

[Mike 700]

 

 

 

 

Lockdown , Locked up and Locked in ,it’s so boring we all say

We’re fed up with watching paint dry and not going out to play

It’s driving us crazy and we all feel like making for it ‘a run’

Clinically Vulnerable oldies we may be but not too old to enjoy some fun

 

And if the vaccine does speedily arrive

Just watch these old folk sneak away & drive

As fast as their all terrain Mobility scooters will go

At a heady 8 mph with foot flat on the floor

 

Boredom is as unhealthy as the Virus we all say

‘Cause life’s too bloody short anyway not to laugh & not to play

So’s let’s have some fun today & let me say it just the one time

I’m too bloody knackered to finish this damned rhyme

[Author]

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