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Thursday, September 26, 2024

Not Going Gentle

 

 

It's been a really hard week, and I can only express it through analogy.

From the King I took my shilling,
and I am on my Oerlikon.
I'm in the fight and I am willing,
and the Carley floats are gone
as water laps across the deck;
right bugger has this night become 
on this listing burning wreck,
but load another drum
and engage with gritted teeth
the savage enemy,
wondering what might lie beneath
the waves that roil once-peaceful sea.
If needs must I will sell life dear,
but someone GET ME OUT OF HERE!

The Five Minute Friday prompt this week is ADVANTAGE.

They say it's advantageous
to claim an attitude 
that marks one as courageous,
but I think it's just rude
to beat the drum, one's own behalf,
a real one-man parade.
It kinda sorta makes me laugh,
'cause that ain't how life is made.
Climb high above humility,
thinking you have it all,
and soon you'll fall from Eden's tree
and God will break your fall
with the cushion of His hand,
and some stern words of reprimand.

Just over four minutes.

And, by the way, Peanut's celebrity grows, courtesy Woman's World

If you go to the article, you also get to see a current picture of me. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Sylvia would get me out of this, if she but could.






3 comments:

  1. I especially like the imagery that comes with, "soon you'll fall from Eden's tree and God will break your fall with the cushion of His hand." Nice!

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  2. Wonderful pictures! Both the photos and the word pictures. I know it is God's mercy every time I am humbled. But it still hurts! God bless you and keep you rhyming!

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  3. 'God will break your fall
    with the cushion of His hand.'

    Yep, I've been saved by Him, He has kept me from falling into oblivion. Thank You, Jesus.

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