A Room with No Window

 

A room with no window - capture - Aug 29, 2016

A Room with no Window

A room with no window
Is no room at all.
It’s a cell,
A confinement of soul,
A stultifying of breath,
A limitation on life.

A room with no window
Is a life pew with no faith,
A room with no window
Is where love goes to die…

Never confine your life
To a room with no view;
You’ll be sure to be lonely,
Crave a new point of view.

You’ll grow pallid and stare
Into the blank black void
Of nothingness ’till
Sleep you can no longer avoid.

Wake up! Wake up
To the joys of the sun.
Partake of this life,
Rediscover the fun.

Break down that fourth wall
And fill it with glass to see through,
And a door to go out
Where others are having a gas
To see the world in its action
And walk out to join them…

Extend your life’s span
And avoid going to sleep
In your brain and avoid
The avoidance
Of a real point of view.

That would be end point
And there’s no point to that.
That would confine you to
That room with no window
And an existence
In which you haven’t a clue.

Don’t make your mind
A room with no view!

— —
That would be
succumbing
to Alzheimer’s disease.
— —
It almost happened to me.


CREDIT: Clip Art. (No forwarding address.)

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Go Ahead: Clog that artery

 

Go ahead and clog that artery - Capture

Clog that artery

Go Ahead

Go ahead and clog that artery,
Go ahead and block that vein.
Fatten the route that feeds the brain,
Go ahead and eat that burger,
Make it a triple stack
’Cause you’ll look good in fat.
Wash it down with a soda,
The sugar will do you good;
It’ll give you extra energy,
Just you indulge and see.
And if you’re really lucky,
You’ll meet Mr. Sugar Diabetes
Who’ll lead you to Mr. Dementia
and his pal Alzheimer Disease.
They’re such a great fun lot,
And you will like them a whole great big lot.

So if that cherry pie looks delicious,
Go ahead and dig right in.
Chase it down with a rich dark chocolate,
You can never beat that drink.
Whenever you meet temptation,
Give it a friendly wink,
Temptation’s your best friend now,
She’ll give you what you want –
And what you want, you know,
Is the very best thing for you.

Yes overeating is such a pleasure,
Be sure to get your share,
’Cause you know that the fat ones
Are the jolliest folk on earth;
Everybody loves a fat one,
Everybody is his friend,
So go ahead and clog that vein now,
It doesn’t pay to restrain,
And you know that the effort
Will never be in vain.
Three cheers for the burger,
Pass me another plate of chips;
It’s my gift to my heart now
Another good reason to smack my lips.

Go ahead - eat pizza - Capture

 

Now here’s a tale to remember:

There once was a fella from maple ridge
Who couldn’t stop himself from raiding the fridge.
The more he ate the bigger he grew,
Till one day he just popped and out his guts flew!

So go ahead and clog that artery,
Go ahead and block that vein.
Practise the art of bartery,
Make fatty bacon your main.

Six sugar lumps in your coffee,
Triple scoops of rich toffee ice cream –
It’ll give you high energy,
it’ll fill you full of pep,
Then lounge in your easy chair and dream.

Nothin’ like a solid artery
To make a fella content

It’s like playing with archery
Get struck by a bolt to get what meaning is meant

So go head, clog that artery,
Go ahead and block that vein.

CREDITS: Burger –

http://scitechconnect.elsevier.com/defense-of-us-dietary-guidelines/
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2098419-eat-healthier-by-learning-the-language-of-cravings/
P
izza: http://itaintholywater.blogspot.ca/2016_04_01_archive.html

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Bad Trip: Never again!

 

Bad Trip pill - Capture - August 22, 2016

Bad Trip: Never Again!

Bad trip is as bad trip goes
Take a pill to cure an ill
Like everybody else knows…
Just don’t take that bad trip pill!

The doctor said my health was at high risk
And that pill would offer counter tweaks.
It’s not that I’m a sugar addict, mind,
It’s only that I love my sweets.

I took the pill to fight my high cholesterol;
Doc said I must reduce the fat.
I took the pill to control that sugar count,
And to know where my health was at.

Now my view is fuzzy, my mouth feels muzzy
And even sound is muffled now.
And to speak? I’ve quite forgotten how –
That doggone pill gave me a different view somehow.

So I read the small print on the label on the bottle,
And I was shocked to learn about the side effects:
Liver damage, diabetes, loss of eyesight,
Bleeding ulcers and other such dire defects.

I wish that I had never swallowed that pill
’Cause this is one hell of a really bad, bad trip!
Instead of fixing me up, it’s making me feel ill,
When all I wanted was my six-pack to rip.

Instead I get the scary warning notes
Of vision blurred and hunger in the extreme,
And worst of all, leading to Alzheimer’s –
It was so bad my skin broke out in ecxeme!

Never Again!

Never again blindly will I take them pills,
And I will try not to feel bilefully ill-willed
Toward the doctor who believed the sales guy
And forgot to ask about the pill, “Why?”

Now excuse me for a while, I am afraid
I really must now take me to my bed.
My wife complains I’ve lost my old mojo,
And that I look quite frightfully daid.

So if I do survive, I’ll swear me off those pills,
The cure is so much worse than is the darned disease.
The proof’s in the pudding: I’ve totally lost all my zip,
’Cause this has been one gawdawful bad, bad trip

CREDIT: http://wesharepics.info/imagehgkl-headache-clipart.asp

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Every Season Is Summer

 

Every season is summer - Capture - Aug 19, 2016

Every Season is Summer

When I am with you

Every season was summer when you were with me,
You were the reason that stirred my heart
And made every season special for me;
You love kept me warm and we knew we’d not part.

Spring is for renewal and that’s what we did.
Spring is the season that made our hearts sing.
I always remember ’cause you were with me,
It’s how we knew that this was never a fling.

And summer is warm and so were we,
Even in the cool of those evening walks
And campfire hot chocs – and the intimate talks –
Summer was always the favourite with us.

Autumn is pretty and autumn is chilly,
A season that made us both feel frisky,
And we pumpkined our way through to tricky trick treats
And we hay-wagoned and kissed and danoodled away –
Autumn was our favourite season of summer

Come winter and old-fashioned ice and snow
Despite the cold wind that would blow and blow
We huddled and cuddled by the fireside
And steam-toddied our way through the storms –
Winter was most definitely summer with us.

And now that your season is waning,
And now that I see you this way every day,
This is the season most precious of all.
Precarious times that we spend by your bedside together,
This is what tests us and this is what proves
Every season is summer ’cause I am with you.

Time spent together, this is what proves
Seasons don’t matter; I live only for you.
Time now my darling, I’ll remember for you.
Summer is season but much more for us
Season is summer when I am with you.
Every season is summer, when I am with you.

— A poem in progress, rough as emotions

CREDIT: http://www.herinterest.com/10-signs-your-crush-likes-you-back/

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I Am My Own Hero

 

Hero by igngrez - Capture - Aug 15, 2016

My Hero’s Journey

You are on a Hero’s Journey, and it will make you strong.

The situation arises. Your loved on is in danger. The challenge is thrown down.

At first, you are reluctant; you do not want this assignment; you never asked for this; it will interfere with your life. You have things to do, places to go, people to meet.

Then, you’re stuck. The worthy foe has introduced complications.

There is no one else who can or will do this; besides, he needs you and you love him, and anyway, come down to it, it is your duty. And there is nobody else there or willing. So, reluctantly, you take up the challenge – or, rather, it takes you up.

You fight, you struggle, you wrestle with your guilt and conscience, but the damned disease keeps winning; the foe is relentless; it sees your strategy and it attacks; it’s always three steps ahead.

Every time you calm down your world, anger flares up and sanity escapes. The chase is back on. You are failing as a hero. And your loved one is flailing, anguished, failing physically.

You become exhausted, you despair, you give up!

I am no hero

But then, out of the divorce with hope, the bleakness and the cathartic crying jag, you see his face. You see his face. You see HIM  — despair, his terror, etc., and you cannot stand it. All the love floods back, and you rise up and you grab your sword and scream as you lunge forward. The tables are turned.

You are in control, hell or hail of arrows, you will manage for him, you will fend off the foes…you WILL be his hero.

You make your last stand

Well, in the end, you lose the war. The disease has taken him.

Your lowest moment ever.

You grieve.

You recover.

You say farewell.

BUT, you’ve won back his soul, you have protected his body and his mind, his pride  and memory and legacy. You’ve regained his dignity.

And you’ve won yours too.You are free. So is he. You are proud. And so should you be.

His love endures.

Suddenly you realize: I am strong.

I am Hero!

'Hero's Heart' - Capture

To all care givers everywhere.

CREDIT: http://www.deviantart.com/art/I-am-a-HERO-107154225

 

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Quiet Man: He’s Blind

Quiet Man

Quiet man

He’s Blind

Quiet Man

Quiet the working man,
quiet the work he do,
Finding solace
in the rhythm of the hands.
Doing duty, family first,
working ever true;
Stolid man
you can depend
upon his moral stands.

A working man all his working life
Working in the mill,
Repetitious work but he was good at it
It paid well, he kept his family well.
In his own way, content,
Providing for his wife
And for his children five.
He is useful,
Therefore,
He is content.

Tensions trapped in duty’s wrap,
The mind did snap, control unwrap;
Muscles slack, machine untend,
Nothing will the losses mend.
Carried off, the worker cries
As the working spirit dies.

Gone now, the mill,
Gone the repetitious job.
Despair and age, Dementia,
All set in and brought him down.
No longer has he a name,
In his mind;
Forgotten is the wife of 40 years,
Forgotten children five.

 

He’s Blind

Fishing stream, drawing out the line, tying lures,
Quiet man, quiet loves, adding trout to family fare
Fly fishing, rhythmic job, one for the other cures.
Quiet man quiet fought the tension versus care.

He’s blind. He sits. He recalls his days of work.
Slowly those work-worn hands raise from upon his lap
And form the moves they made, the motions done at work.
Subconscious reaches in and salvation does it tap.

His family comes they talk to him, daily mourn his loss,
They feed his hunger to know himself as rhythmic move his hands,
They pray for him, he hums to them soft as forest moss;
Quiet man you can depend upon his moral stands.

O Spirits, cry! Honour him, upon his soul do tend,
Broken family left behind, work hard for them to mend.
Dedicated to Maurice.

CREDIT: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flyfishing.jpg

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My Many Weather Friend

 

My Many Weather Friend - Capture - Aug 8, 2016

My Many Weather Friend

My all weather friend, you’re a friend indeed,
You are my many weather friend in need.

You were there for me in summer,
You were there for me in fall,
You were there for me in springtime,
And you were there for my winter’s fall.

And much more than that,
You were there for me in life’s cold storm
When my heart and the season froze,
And you were left to mourn.

You held my hand and smiled for me
When I hadn’t any smile in store,
You gave me solace when I needed—
We are friends for evermore.

And if it weren’t for you,
My many weathered friend,
My heart would be dead to love
My will to live come to an end.

Now, My Friend

And now, my friend, my many-weathered friend,
While you’ve been sorely tried, you’ve proven true,
So now I give right back to you.
I give you love, I give you pride,
I’ll gladly stand here by your side,
And when you find yourself in need,
I pledge my creed,
You have my helping hand
Against all foes, all woes, all trials…
I’m beside you now, I proudly stand,
You may depend on me.
Not to just return your favours,
But that’s what true friends do.

I am here for you in summer,
I’m here for you in fall,
I’m here for you in springtime,
And I’m here for your winter’s fall.

So here’s to you, you stuck with me,
I stick with you right till the end.

Come whatever weather, my many-weathered friend,
Always you will be my many weather friend.

CREDIT: http://www.clipartster.com/senza-stare-a-contare-il-numero-di-ombrelli-che-ho-fatto-fuori-da-vkbP6t-clipart/

 

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