Travel in Mind
Words More Words Pictures
The Princess and the Pea
There was once a prince in need a bride,
But of a virgin princess there was no hair nor hide.
Not in Glasgow Chester Leeds or Surrey
Oldham Brighton Wirral or Bury.
“It’s so unfair,” he wailed to the king.
“I’d forfeit my crown for a wedding ring.
Or marry a girl of beauty who’s soiled,
Or an ugly one, who’s clean and unspoiled.”
“Be patient son,” said the king, a wise man,
As he told the prince about his plan.
And so a devious plot was hatched,
To find the prince his ideal catch.
Every night a new girl arrived,
Oblivious to the scheme derived.
To sleep in a bed with mattresses stacked,
But who’d have laid on nails for a marriage contract.
One by one they failed the test,
And were sent away without gift or bequest.
Until one such girl had the gall to complain,
“I didn’t sleep a wink. I’m in so much pain.”
She was a raven-haired beauty, strong yet demure,
Kind in heart and…pure.
That the planting of a pea had caught;
But the king was not as wise as he thought.
The girl bagged her prince and in their wedding bed,
Her favourite story to the prince she read.
The tale of the Princess and the Pea,
There is none so gullible as He.
Stephanie 2017
Spending the Kids’ Inheritance
We’re off on a SKI break – minus the skis,
Our kids let me tell you are none too pleased.
“It’ll cost a fortune. You’ll come back broke.”
They don’t mean our limbs and it isn’t a joke.
“What happened to the 4-berth chalet in Rhyl?”
“Or the Quarriers Rest in Merthyr Tydfil?”
“Never such luxury before,” they lament.
Which is all the more reason why we are hellbent
On spending the kids’ inheritance.
You see Georgie boy’s fresh back from Ibiza,
With dance moves galore and a girl who’s no keeper.
She’ll cost a pretty penny, I think,
What she lacks in decorum she makes up for in drink.
And Ellie Mae’s months’ jaunt in Greece…
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Was worth every euro just for the peace.
“Sixties the new forty,” I say with a smirk,
“Not slippers and hotpot and a repeat of Dunkirk.
It’s time your father and I had some fun,
Now you’ve flown the nest and our scrimping is done.
We’ll cash in insurance and re-mortgage the home,
And spend, spend, spend on our bucket list roam.
And when we’re skint and spent and can globetrek no more,
Suitcases and all we’ll come knocking at your door.
So, the best you can hope is that life takes us sooner,
Because failing that we’ll go out like true Boomers.
And all at our own expense!”
Stephanie (2019)
Favourite Song Lyrics
” …Someone sleeps tonight with a hunger far more than an empty fridge…”
Empire State of Mind
Alicia Keys
I wanna contact the living
Not sure I understand
This role I’ve been given
I sit and talk to God
And he just laughs at my plans
My head speaks a language
I don’t understand…”
“…There are no holes in his shoes but a big hole in his world…”
The Man Who Can’t Be Moved
The Script
“…I didn’t lose my mind it was
mine to give away…”
No Regrets
Robbie Williamsm
And the moon rose over an open field.
“Kathy, I’m lost”, I said, though I knew she was sleeping…”
America
Simon and Garfunkel