Nell

I fink that's rather funny
it surely made me laugh
so much did I chuckle
I fell into the bath.

Splashed amongst the bubbles
and the spiders living there
and now I have a spider's web
as a hairnet for my hair

like you I have to end now
cos the words have gone away
which usually means in my world,
I have nothing left to say.


xx David

Nell.oooooooo well done.
Great one. Every stanza was so good.
Made me laugh,so thats a bonus. Spike must be loving all this....Taking it to the goons.

Well done.
xxxAlice

Brilliant, Nell. I really enjoyed it. I like the losing marbles while going to the loo. Yes, Alice is right - I bet he's having a great time!
joanie

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Nell, as promised, putting accents on.
Hold ALT and type 130 for é; 131 for â; therefore your 'pâté'. If you experiment you'll find all sorts - 135 for ç; 138 for è; 129 for ü; etc!
hope that's helpful


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oops, meant to say that it must be numbers on the number pad.

David, Alice, joanie, thanks all.

David, I'm loling and trying to imagine you with a spider's web as a hairnet - you should post your poem in the Seminar as a tribute to Spike.

Alice, it's good to imagine them all clowning about up there - or wherever they are!

Joanie, thanks for the info - I can't imagine how you found that out. Pâté. Heavens, it works! You won't believe this, but I typed in 137 and got a musical note - the only problem was that it came up in the Google search box!

Nell all in heaven and having a good time.
xx Al

Nice one Nell,

like I wore me heart on me sleeve, it fell off in the road



G

Thanks gard.

I`m sure if Spike were to read this he would be proud that his world lives on.Which is certainly by my reckoning is not a bad thing...Really humorus free style to it .Made me laugh ,totally irrational but made perfect animated sense.Really enjoyed it.

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Also olebuts little rendition was quite a laugh as well!

Hi Lawrenco, it's not my usual style, but it was fun to write. Thanks for reading and commenting.

Hi, Nell....just found this - very silly, very funny.

re accents etc, if, like me, you can't remember all these shortcuts, try -

Start/accessories/system tools. right click on 'character map', go to 'send' on the resultant drop down menu, click on desktop, whereupon a shortcut will appear on your desktop. The character map holds all the fancy stuff and is very easy to use - it saved my life.

Roger, thanks for commenting, also for the 'puter info. Will make that shortcut pronto - I'm useless at remembering.

Nell.

Hi Nell, very good fun. I particularly enjoyed all the double entendres and the crazy red herrings that swam away from them. Haven't got the the Spike seminar (and probably won't) so thanks for giving me a flavour of it. Cheers, Hilary

Hilary, thanks - love the second sentence in your comment post - exactly what I intended, and so poetically expressed. Brilliant.

Nell.

I opened up the pages
I thought I'd take a look
It always takes me ages
To finish off a book

I'm lost between the covers
I'm buried in the words
Is it enemies or lovers?
Is it quarters, halves or thirds?

Is it sad or is it silly?
Why does it take this time?
The weather's turning chilly
And I'm running out of rhyme

I have to finish reading
And lay the book to rest
The garden's needing weeding
I'm sitting in my vest

I only took a moment out
To read, but here I stay
Stuck in the words of others
Absorbed thoughout the day


(no, nothing to do with the thread - but I started off on a stream of thought and this is how it ended up!)

Hi M.R., thanks for reading, and I like your verses! It's odd, but some days I seem to think in rhyming couplets, and your poem gives me the sense that maybe you think in funny verse!

I drive around 1000 miles a week - so have plenty of time to think and it amuses me to make up rhymes as I drive - decided against answering you in rhyme on this occasion.

But if you check out my website you will see that I am not a poet at all - just a versifier - and a journeyman versifier at that.

Still trying to find an outlet for it and earn a buck or two.

www.proverse.co.uk