good one mister!
Thankyou kind sir. I am a fan of your works too.
When did it begin ?
A pertinent protestation
The answer (I think)
Lyes with this generation
Thank you Spitfire for the additional verse…I’m going to add it to the poem
I was once very fat
But I soon tired of that
After hard exercise
I went down a size
But it wasn’t enough
I had to be tough
So I cut off a limb
To make me more thin
Well this sure did the trick
Though I needed a stick
I should have thought it through
Now I am in a stew
I have gained the weight lost
One more limb must be tossed
I wont take my last leg
I’ll cut of an arm instead
This made me lopsided
I shouldn’t have tried it
Now then,
I [B]think I should point out I made all of this up
Don’t try this at home, shedding one’s limbs is a bad idea to lose weight.[/B]
NOW for a sensible one
When I consider the humble spider
I am always filled with awe
For having no mentor to teach or guide her
Spins a web to which flies and bugs draw
Shame to those who brush webs aside
When on wet mornings they start to appear
Yon spider took a long while to finally decide
Not to put it there but to put it right here
It’s the same in timid ladies bathrooms
When spiders with vertigo gather
They get stuck in the bath ,where there’s no room
Screams of fright come from our ladies who blather
Spiders are grossly, universally hated
For why, its not for me to say
But I did hear on tv commentated
Spiders are not going but here to stay.
I wouldn’t say that we were poor
but we knew no point in asking “more”
We were always hungry and cold
That’s how it was if truth be told.
All that we was poor but happy crap
Was always just so much made up clap trap
our house was cold, cold as the grave
And we were treated like common slaves
Memory fails us
Memory fails us more and more
until we are arrive at heaven’s door
bones once strong crack & break
was it all a huge mistake.
Was the earth created, or evolve
both are true we have been told
I have only a little brain
I need it to be explained again
So we have a life eternal
waiting for when we pass
forgiven are our sins infernal
repentance is all that’s asked
The great hereafter waits for us
where there’s no suffering or pain
you need to have faith and trust
this happy state to gain
Why today I write this poem
Is today a special day
All of us are on a journey going
Will someone point the eternal way.
Described as an oracle
Just as was Pythia of Delphi
Shows a mind fair astute
Gray matter most healthy
Only writes the plain truth
Not from fevered brow
Fantastic since youth
Knows no limits right now
Lip reading in the dark.
I’m lip reading in the light of the newly risen sun.
The life that started right has many miles to run.
I have no sound, but sight directs my question thus.
In my soul’s long dark night, go onwards then I must.
Still lip reading in the morning darkness blocks my way.
Senses dulled, no warning , as morning becomes midday.
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Unfinished
A work in progress
Well that is success
It’s better to falter
Than to Digress
The day draws slowly to a close
My eyes grow heavy and tired
It seems just now ,from sleep I rose
Full of ambition fully fired
Lots to do, but I get distracted
By endless stimulations
Things my mind manufactured
Like cerebral perforations
I didn’t do half of the things I planned
It often happens this way
AS I drift off into sleepy land
I think “Tomorrows another day”
Sums up my life Robert - even have a bit of paper with all the to-do things on it; which I studiously ignore 
Three syllables…
Woke up late
After eight
not the mints
But succinct
All the same
It’s a game
Life that is
Piece off piss
Some good days
Do amaze
Others stink
S’wot I think
Anyway
Lets make hay
While sun shines
No more whines
Give best shot
thats my lot
Bring it on
That’s clever Robert! 
‘Three syllables’
You know what Robert
Your a very clever chap …
‘You make me smile - with my heart … :-)’
is this the new hampshire haiku style?
Hampshire Hog Haiku?
Hardly Happens Here Historically.
Seems you have capitalised on this response.
Very clever Spitfire
[FONT=“Comic Sans MS”]lower case
has it’s place
I prefer
a wider
type of style
takes a while
now I do
yon haiku
quite a lot
they hit spot
they are fine
borderline
quality
but that’s me
have a go
you wont know
if you’re good
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