Okie dokie.
Poor D'Oub has been under the weather a bit the last three or four days. I took to my bed. I reckon it's no coincidence that my illness coincided with 'Black Thursday' last week. My health appears to be inextricably linked to the financial health of the nation. I have a rallied a little by today - though the ripples from the child benefit withdrawal in the UK threatened a fiscal relapse on my part this morning. I'm being stoic. So, worried that I may risk further deterioration to my precarious health, I have decided not to stretch myself and compose a new poem for the poetry bus. The mental energy needed might just be my tipping point. But, here is one what I wrote only a few weeks ago. Needs a little work. It's not quite about happiness - more soppy mushiness - but it makes me happy, so there we go...
Ruby
You are no energy saving light bulb
But a proud old-fashioned kind.
You light up instantly,
no lukewarm waiting.
Your grin feeds a grid
enough to power a nation
Careless, wanton excess!
Melting hearts as fast as
polar icecaps
Our lives flooded, overcome by you.
Only 3 years old, but already
more powerful than the sun.
You are no energy saving light bulb
But a proud old-fashioned kind.
You light up instantly,
no lukewarm waiting.
Your grin feeds a grid
enough to power a nation
Careless, wanton excess!
Melting hearts as fast as
polar icecaps
Our lives flooded, overcome by you.
Only 3 years old, but already
more powerful than the sun.
12 comments:
She's adorable and our nation needs light, Ruby could be the inspiration for all of us basking in the darkness of the current abyss! Ruby Rule OK!
Again, I have to say Ridiculously Cute. And a great poem - made me almost cry when you read it during Lucan Fest!!
I'd have never noticed!
So sweet. Could we power the country with small children?
Killer last couple of lines.
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Niamh - phew!
EW - That is the kind of thinking I like! Now, how to harness thier power? Hamster wheels? Treadmills?
Rachel - Thanks!
Ahh, Lubblee poem! And I like the light bulb analogy.Our Padso (13) is definitely an energy saving light bulb and I'm a flourescent tube that flickers a bit and then blows up.Mrs EEjit is the National grid.
More powerful than the sun - that's surely true of almost every mother's child :) Lovely poem!
Don't tell anyone I'm here, meant to be working.
I knew you liked me, but honest D'Oub, naming your first girl after me! Beyond.
yours
JoAnne Ruby McKay
P.S. Great poem. Bit teary myself here. And what a face!
Aww!She is so adorable n cute!
The poem is just as great!I mean-Wow!
Thanks all for reading!
TFE, Bug - thanks :)
Peter - fair point on the sun/son possible confusion, though, seeing as she is actually more powerful than her two big brothers, it sorta works anyway :o)
Ah Helen, it is troubling ones national woe symbiosis - what is the cure?!
Titus (aka J. Ruby) Well, what can I say, I had been searching for a suitable tribute for quite a while... it seemed fitting.
ET & EO - Thanks :o)Though the fame has gone to her pretty little head and she's been quite the little madam the past two days!
What beauties -- both Ruby and the poem. Truly,she's a doll!
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