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I wandered lonely as a cloud, that came from satans bum.
I tried to throw a party, found that no one else would come.

I looked hard in the mirror, to see what I could see,
3 score years, so many faces have looked back at me.

I never saw as others could, why I didn't fit,
But over time, as you do, I came to live with it.

Then one day, as my life, has hit a painful schism,
Up pops a helpful friend, to suggest I have the 'tism!

I take the tests, I'm wondering, just what am I to do?
My trick cylist sagely says, "There is no help for you".

O.K. Nurse, I'll come quietly.....

Maybe you've not driven a Reliant Robin or used a photgraphic tripod much?

Once you find yourself in one of those with two passengers and one wheel off the deck right at the tipping point and heading towards the kerb*, you learn quick, as you do catching your expensive camera as the ruddy tripod tips over! When faced with recalcitrant tripods, lateral forces are their achilles heel and your friend! 

*The girl in the back had enough wit to put her weight over the levitating wheel, which allowed me to corner tight enough on the two I had available, to miss the kerb without tipping us completely onto our side. It was a close run thing... 

There are days where I find my own Autism mildly amusing, I hope I'm sharing that experience..

The serpentine maneuver! How could I have forgotten that?

Yeah, I liked that. 

Word to the wise, Tripods, like three wheeled vehicles don't deal with lateral forces very well at all.

Try zig zagging a bit more next time it chases you, maybe it'll fall over and make the horror become comedy?  

Thank you Oran G Utan. I thank that was really good. 

An Unmade Promise

I find myself wondering

if roots work like nervous systems,

and if so

whether a tree feels pain

when it is felled, and whether the ground,

brimming with life, a promise of honey,

reels at the impact.

And if we could know this,

would we melt down our axes to make wings,

and if we did,

would the lyrebird forget its song of chainsaws?

We know that rock remembers.

And so I find myself wondering

whether the moon holds footprints more like craters

or like children.

Dear Moon, I wish I had wings

to fold around the whole of you.

Dear Roots, I wish I had wings

and could tend a sweet promise of untroubled moonlight.

Dear Ground, I wish I had wings

to chisel the air for your ripening,

and roots

to churn your stillness.

Guess I'll share a poem I wrote. Don't mind the dark mood of it. Just a Lovecraft fan.

The Mare

Once upon a moonlit night
Where wonders turn to dreams
My tired mind succumbs to sleep
And splits upon the seams

I venture into foreign worlds
A fresco painted by a fraud
A plagiarist reading from a book
Written by a drunken sod

I dare not look behind me
For what follows seems too bleak
A horror stalks behind me
It makes my spirit meek

It has a horrid speed
It bounds on legs of three
It pleads to let it feed
It comes, it comes for me

I ran upon the banks
I ran upon the shore
I ran upon the cliffs
I fell
I ran no more

 I suppose mine is a 'prequel' really as this was the encounter that made him write the song/poem. Thanks for commenting, glad you got something out of it

I think my Trainspotter/Oor Wullie training is serving me well. I can actually read it. It does take me about 3 times as long to read. I'm a bit of a heathen and haven't read poetry since school (Tam O'Shanter! "Cutty Sark"!!), so I've not read the Robert Burns text. So, I've read your 'sequel' before the original 

For some reason, I thought she was going to say something that made Robert of no interest to her, but then you write that final line.

Last wee piece in Scots. This is written from the perspective of "Handsome Nell", the girl who Robert Burns said first inspired him to write, at the age of 15. Again, glossary at the end for the more unusual words.

thelumberroom.blogspot.com/.../burns-lover.html

Thank you, Becca.

Glad to have inspired you! This tune is as old as I am lol. It sounds like the intro music from an early 1980s kids TV series, something poignant and nostalgic.

Ha!

Just listened to this after waking up feeling quite horrible, tired, and agitated, it's quite soothing. I think I may have to get into a routine of listening to some music upon waking up to start my day.

Well done past Mark!

I was inspired by Becca posting something that wasn't visual.

https://soundcloud.com/spikey-243124935/jennifer-sketch

I wrote this tune at some time between 1987 and 1989. The recording is from 1989.

I'm sad to say that I don't think that I ever wrote anything better in the 35 years since.

The tune is piano only. It is called 'Jennifer'. I didn't know a Jennifer at the time. It was just a name that I really liked. I did briefly go out with a Jennifer about 10 years later. It's not about her.

It's only a couple of minutes long.

I was never very good at playing the piano - my co-ordination and little fingers are a hurdle. So it is computer sequenced on a cheap app that could not control velocity (how hard you hit the keys). So all the notes have the same loudness. There are parts that should be quieter, and parts that should build. One day, I may re-record this. I've forgotten the notes, so would have to transcribe it.

No one has ever heard this before, apart from maybe my first girlfriend.

I was looking through my loft and found some old tapes. I bought a tape to MP3 convertor. I found lots of my old stuff, but this was my favorite.

Another short piece in Scots. This is written from the perspective of a young lad who worked on the farm of the poet Robert Burns. 

thelumberroom.blogspot.com/.../burns-fermer.html

A Bang on the 

The name of a song by The Waterboys

A Bang on the Ear.

The name of a song by The Waterboys

In windows ten the photo viewer they supply allows you several preset sizes to resize down to, the middle one works for here...

The chances of you having a samsung/android are probably slim. But just in case,..

You go to the gallery and choose your photo.

Click on edit (the little pen icon).

Then click on the 3 dots in the top right.

Click 'resize'.

I choose about 40%.

The important thing is not to click 'save', but to click the 3 dots again and choose 'save as copy' - otherwise your nice phone picture is replaced by the smaller one for good.