I GOT UP
I woke up this morning
and went down the stars
stretching and yawning.
And please don’t decry it
if there weren’t any stairs
I never would try it.
It’s not easy I know
but the other way down
is through the window.
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It must be good to go down the 'stars', I find the stairs are safer.
Andy
It sure is and we use the same stairs to go up as well as to come down - it saves having to have two sets of stairs.
Love the artwork.
Andy
Thanks Andy - just completed another - will post soon.
Hi Michael,
Happy New Year's Eve.
I see you're energetic getting up for the New Year that lies in store.
Lets hope it will be a good one.
Good write.
Keep writing ✍ and safe during these challenging times.
FineB
Washed and scrubbed and at Sainsburys for 7am - groceries put away - prep done for tonights meal - cleaned the study - wrapped a birthday present for my grandson - now the rest of my day to myself.
And you have a good year too - I'll be toasting to the future and tunnels end if covid doesn't get me first
Good write and pic M.
Ta O
Miss Berles has closed most of the shops for tomorrow!
But you can stll buy a cauliflower - that's 4 syllables.
Or a pomegranite.
Climbing through windows on stairs to the star-way - what a wonderful dream this read stirs in me - - super work Michael.
It's great after a nightssleep coming down stairs to greet the new day. Unless you live in a bungalow of course. Thanks Fay.
'The bulldozer outside the kitchen window was quite a big one.
He stared at it.
“Yellow,” he thought, and stomped off back to his bedroom to get dressed.'
from opening 'scene' of 'the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy',
your words took me right back to that beloved character Michael...
your painting had me dreading those endless pages of Moby Dick and that eventual final battle where Captain Ahab found the end: he so fervently chased...
Happy New Year Michael, stay safe
Thanks so much LB - happy new year to you and yours.
Though seasonal eatings a chore
i continually gorge more and more
now i'm saying my prayers
before going downstairs
in case i should fall through the floor
you see, you've again got me started
though my composition may be quite halfhearted
when i fell through that ceiling
there came a rumbling feeling
and then i resoundingly farted
The odour which the arose
got up the olifactory nose
the pong was so lousy
i began to feel drowsy
I'm writing this quite comatose
Brilliant - Happy New Year Dusk.
Finally some real poetry on this site!
Love the poem, Michael. The art is beautiful as well. Happy New Year.
Thanks Jerry - happy new year to you and yours.
I too love the artwork!
Thank you Robert. It is many miles away from most of mny commissioned work but is proving an enjoyable exercise in an alternative art form. I am learning as I go and exploring which paper is best. i have just tried it on cold pressed watercolour paper but ,of the types I have tried thus far, quality card is the best support even though it is unsized and doesn't take the colour as well. I haven't yet tried hot pressed watercolour paper which I think may well work best.
Looks quite marketable to me. Could you do it as prints, so as to have multiple copies? - I'm pretty active on Facebook - Bob Richmond there, in Tennessee. Are you there?
Thank you Robert - yes I am on Facebook but not really active - It's an outlet I really should exploit. In fact thanks to your comment I will look into it further over the coming week or so.
As for prints this is something I've not really pursued - I have had been blessed with some success with commissioned work and sales of originals that the cost of going into prints has not really been too attractive - art is, after all, more of a hobby which has blossomed into almost a second profession since retiring from the National Health Service here in the UK.
I will certainly look you up on Facebook and thank you once again for your kind comments.
I tried to find you on Facebook, but there are a lot of guys named Michael Edwards. (There are also a lot guys named Bob Richmond. I have two of them as Facebook friends, in fact.)
I am so glad I found this, this evening after a bloomin long days volunteering ....... a decent chuckle with a hot chocolate is just what I needed ...
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