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There's a cloud in the sky with my name on
just somewhere left of the sun
and when I die I think that I
will ride on it and have some fun.

I will steer over parched little gardens
belonging to the poor and alone
and let down the showers to grow them pretty flowers
and make shining diamonds of grey stone.

I will guide my little cloud sometimes across the sun
you'll see this cloud of mine with edges shining
until those who are on the brink, look heavenward and think
'Surely every cloud must have a silver lining?'

I could travel anywhere on my little cloud up there
as far as the winds could ever blow
For children full of wonder, I could rip the cloud asunder
and cover a grey world with magic snow.

On days when no sun shines on my gloomy little cloud
I'll reflect the mood of all who sorrow find
but on days that should be gay I'll lead other clouds away
to float just out of sight and out of mind

it is raining :-D


The Overseasers

I wandered lonely o'er the threads
it was the dead of night
All the members in their beds
And then I got a fright

Someone added to a thread
And then there was another
Chatting away on the boards
About one thing and another

They didn't see me as I watched
Them getting on just fine
More people added one by one
not heeding the lateness of time

I changed boards to see what
Was going on on there
but there they were, more members
With one or two in the chair

Sheesh I thought, what is this
All these people in the night
Then I remembered 'twas the over seasers
Chatting with friends and nerry a fight

They didn't see me but I saw them
they all seemed so nice
Maybe the next time I'm up late
I will join them once or twice.

Who needs a morning paper delivered to their door?
When you can log on to GR & get the news & more
Who has their nails painted a delicate shade of pink?
Got trouble with the water not going down the sink
Just who they will elect to be the next aged pope
Of fairness from politicians we should give up hope
Well used chatting threads there are a few
We think of threads with subjects new
Threads whose whole reason is to us amuse
Answered by those who the author just abuse
But when you are feeling oh so very blue
Log onto GR chat is what you should do
For when a fellow member is in trouble
Many are there to help, at the double.
<3

Talking about culcha, where is my chicken wrestling boast? I have been working with the lovely Mr. Daff by my side for 6 hours and can't keep an eye on my poultry, so where is it?

I have no idea
Where the thread has gorn
but your chucks are away with it
now you is forlorn

There is no good in crying
About your wrestling boast
they have gone forever
You could say....They are loast

:-D :-D

Distraught, crying, upset and stressed
Took me ages to reply in jest to the pest
Now it's gone and my writings too
I shall sit in the corner and cry out "BOO HOO"

I love this thread :-)

Ive tried a little ditty but upto now I have only got two lines :-(......

*Drags Mersey in* Until she writes
Two more lines for here
Not letting go e'n if she fights
Or pretends a tear

I get worser and worser
You have to be a better verser
Than I

:-D

I wander lonely as anything
Jumping from thread to thread
But why does anything interesting
Happen while I am in bed?

In the day we have the boring threads
Or the more mundane stories are told
No larking around or fisticuffs
No exciting tales to be told.

When I read the threads the following day
It’s the night birds who’ve had all the fun
Goodness knows how many posts RRd
And no news of battles won.

I probably dreamed this but had to make up a rhyme somehow.

Susan With Numbers is her name
She left on a break which was such a shame
She came back smiling and full of life
Back to the threads made of fun and strife
Gr is a place for us all to be
together mixing in perfect harmony

*Yeah Right* :-D :-D :-D <3

Thats the best I got

Oh Mersey!
You is good! Innit
If there was a prize
Am sure
You would win it!
:-D ;-) <3

:-D :-D BC <3

Ok Mersey, you can go
I will pay you later :-D
See I told you,....... no I didn't
you'll get better and better

Ann In Glos what are you like
Wandering all alone
Stay up late just like me
and you will feel at home

Actually....I lied.....there is never anyone about any more :-(

Little fly on the wall

Ain't you got no vest at all

Ain't you got no shimmy shirt

Gee fly ain't you cold

To my best mate margaret on your 60th birthday
There are a few special words I'd like to say

Free prescriptions, a free bus pass, £200 to help pay for Electric
and Gas
Free eye test, cheaper hairdo, a jab to get rid of that nasty flu.
Pensioners specials at the pub. NOT on drink just on grub.
Cheaper entrance fees are paid. So many savings to be made.

There is 1 special reason I chose you as my friend
It's hard to say, but I'll not pretend,
The following reason is honest and true
IT WAS BECAUSE I'M YOUNGER THAN YOU.

One by another




Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.

1. The Road Not Taken


TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Edit.......I just found the thread where Rose had already added the above 5 years ago

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_chat/thread/989969

Not mine but one that I saved a while ago. I worked for the Children's Society many years ago & saw this happen many times.

Sharing
By Elaine Rideau Tomlin

In the stillness of the morning -
In the hush before the dawn -
A cry screams through the silence -
And a new life has been born.

And she wonders what will happen -
To her newborn baby girl -
How she wishes she could keep her -
And protect her from the world.

But she knows that there are "others" -
Who would gladly give the world -
To have the chance to hold and love -
Her precious little girl.

And she prays to God for guidance -
As she holds that tiny hand -
With the desperate hope that someday -
Her child will understand.

So she bravely signs the papers -
And the tears fall from her eyes -
As she signs away her baby -
The light inside her dies.

One last kiss she gives her darling -
For the "others" have now come -
To claim the life she gave them -
Now a family has begun.
....
Sorry not a cheerful poem, but in my mind a good one.

Can I just put a story about know it alls.

We had run out nearly of incontinence pads which Fred has in his trousers to sit on and on his bed sometimes just as a precaution because the carers only come three times a day.

I took one of thelastones to the pharmacy to see if I could buy a packet to see us through. Took it tothe assistant and said" Have you got any of these please?".

Because she only sold them in packets and had never seen a loose one she didn't know what it was and asked me. I said it was an incontinence pad and a woman in the next queue who evidently was most knowledgable siad in a fairly impatient and no nonsense way,"It's a Tena Lady." because we were bothtoo silly to know that.

Now,these incontinence pads are about two foot by one. Tena Lady? Where? How?

Big pants Sharron? :-0..........hope you gave the Knowitall a long meaningful stare :-| silly woman :-P

Susan 'Re The Road Not taken' which is my favourite...

" I travelled akin to Mr Frost
on a road less travelled by
but all it did was get me lost
and now I sit and cry

I should the other way have passed
found a different field to roam
which might then have revealed, at last,
A place I could call home"

lol you can tell I am not having a good day today ;-)