Monday, June 27, 2011

The Demise of the Yoga Class by Terry McLafferty


Jim used to like his yoga…all that twisting up and down
Three times a week he used to go…in a hall just north of town
He was pretty fit then…jumping out of his skin
And all the little fillies…well…they’d often invite him in

He gobbled down his muesli, had fresh fruit every day
He stayed away from caffeine… and beer…well…no way
He kept a secret diary…logging all his attributes
With notes of all his measurements…from his head down to his boots

Now this went on for many years…until a class a while ago
When stretching out upon the floor…Jim felt his bladder go
He could feel it coming…but he couldn’t do a thing
Well, not in that position…with his legs wrapped round his ring

A little show was followed…by a great enormous gush
There wasn’t much that Jim could do…but just sit there…and blush
The gush became a torrent…it flowed across the floor
And before too long the whole damn class…was washed out through the door

But the tide of piss kept flowing on…it became a raging flood
It knocked down four old shearing sheds…that belonged to Farmer Rudd
It carried all before it…now the whole village was in strife
The Council crier yelling…“Run for your bloody life”

Helicopters flew above…with a host of TV crews
Jimmy’s little piddle was about…to make the National news
The drought has broke one farmer called…but I cannot see a cloud
Just a lot a people swimmin’…jeez there’s sure a bloody crowd

Then it seems that poor old Jim…was now busting for a fart
He tried real hard to stop himself…but then his cheeks began to part
But his gut was in no mood for stop…that gas had to escape
And so it did…and when it did… was like a cyclone from the cape

Now the flood that had engulfed the town…was joined by a wind so strong
That it blew down all before it…it even carried sheep along
The air was full of pigs and ducks…and an old lady in a chair
It gusted high…it gusted low…it gusted everywhere

Now it took a while for that urine flow…to eventually recede
People started asking questions…to find out who had peed
And who had dropped that darkie…the fart that came from hell
And smashed their town to smithereens…it seems that nought would tell

Jim had crept home and stayed alone…to avoid the nasty jeers
Of that terrible experience…so unpleasant it brought tears
But then…all of a sudden…the deadly gas built up again
And Jim had to let another one go …this one a damn force ten

It took him out the window…he was headed for the moon
He flew around the district…like a jet-propelled balloon
He ducked and dived and when he’d run…out of that odorous gas
Landed in the vestry…of the church…during morning Mass

That event is still remembered by the town…I’ll tell you why
Because on the day the district flooded…without a cloud in that sunny sky
When the wind blew fierce and people ran... now it’s come to pass
It really was just piss and wind…that ended the yoga class.
















The Robyn Kellner collection

Glass I am
Robyn Kellner 2010 ©

  
At last, a place to rest. My journey has seen many lifetimes pass, it has been long and arduous. The years have taken their toll, but oh what wonders I have seen. The hidden treasurers of nature. The song of the whales. The acrobatics of the dolphins, the colours of the sea as it changes with the blue of the sky and the black thunderous clouds that role across the heavens and deliver the wind and rain. The sea, as it churns and throws sprays of white topped swells in response. Hidden below are the scars and terrors of man’s  toys and tools.

My broken and ill shaped remains shimmer and glisten in the shallow crystal water. Alas, in my tattered and shattered condition my days dwindle, only chance and the elements can enable me to cling a little longer.

How fortunate I am to having been able to listen to the ancients with their stories of their witness to history.

The great pyramids of the Egyptians and the dainty glass beads to adorn their costumes.

Romans citizens watch through cast glass windows, Christians singing praise to their God as the soldiers march them to their martyrdom.

Venetians who developed the clear colourless Cristallo glass, the lead crystal from England and of course the French who invented the technique for casting and rolling to make plate glass for mirrors.

Then there are atrocities, when during the second word war in Nazi controlled areas, Jewish shops and department stores had their windows smashed and contents destroyed, this is recalled as ‘The Night of Broken Glass’, let us hope that such memories  remain as a reminder and warning of potential evil deeds.

When I was made, I was without name. Used for such a short time and then discarded. I can remember the young man dressed is his battle fatigues grabbing me and swilling my contents so fast that some of the brown sweet liquid spilled across his tanned face. I can remember him saying how good it was. Then my contribution to the battle was over and just like thousands of bottles with no brand was left on the shores of the South Pacific island when the soldiers returned home and the war ended.

How far I have come to rest on this gentle shore with its silky white sand. I am sure I will come to life again one day, I can only imagine.



Cleansing the Soul
Robyn Kellner 2005   ©
         
Below the clouds of times life tree
          We subsist in landscapes barely seen
          Deep gorges steeped with hidden caves
          Majestic mountains so whitely paved
                  
          Aghast he stands on the brink
          A mind so turbulent, lacks time to think
          Of all the wonders life invokes
          There is no boundary range or scope

          So much pain and hidden tears
          Buried deep within the untold years
          Release the shackles, raise the curtain
          Time has come to acquit the burden
         
          Look far beyond the rising sun
          For a new day has begun

Light for life from night time terrors

          To cleanse the soul of manly errors

          Hallowed faith that never fades
          The innocent love of a new born babe
          A land in which to grow and prosper
          An everlasting love to cherish and foster

          Remember the Spirit within our being

Strength and fortitude bring forth meaning

          Wisdom that comes with the age of reason
          As love endures for all seasons
         


                                               

Shades of White
 Robyn Kellner     2010 ©

White a reflection of visible light
Feng Shui of purity and innocence
Spectrum to the eyes
Snow against sky of blue
Clouds that hang like powder puffs
Robe of bride immaculate hue

Christened Child

Innocent of world unspoiled

Rose of white
Glorifies the Love

Without the flesh

Yet a simple daisy
Shows a wealth of loyalty
Pure in Death
Oh Lilies white
Release the soul

In feathered flight

The Symbol pure
Alas in days long gone
Feathers white a shame for some
Conflict with the shed of blood
A flag of surrender
Is the colour white.



Thursday, June 23, 2011

ARACHNECIDE JUSTIFIED

Spider why
Stray into my shower-box
Dark, in the pre dawn ?
- Shaded with my unillumined fears
Of things beneath the bed,
Around the corner of my grown maturity.

Naked in a chilly morning,
Shivering wet-fleshed in my shower-spray, up I looked
And froze:
Trapped in the splashing water heat,
The blanketing clouds of steam,
Large - on my ceiling, overhead
You quivered;
Disdaining gravity’s demand in confident contention
With your eight legs spread secure.

Reassured you’d soon retreat
To refuge in your dry dark hiding place,
My calmness too returned
With watered warmth, yet watching still.

But as you sensed the moisture-weighting risk
In protest did you raise one anchoring foot
And then another, till you FELL !

Web-slowed, leg-spread in your descent toward my feet !
- my panic flinging me outside
- to stand soap-dripping in my angry fear
- to see you scramble round
Shower-drop confused and frightened on my shower-box floor.

What choice had I, but desperate defence by aerosol ?
(- as thoughtless of the ozone layer’s loss as you had been)
Smothering your legs,your head, your jaws
In poisoned suffocating fear until you stumbled,
Now malfunctioned in your heaving arcs,
Turned in tighter silent-gasping circles,
Wound down and locked into your leg-clenched toxic death.


Why ?
We could have co-existed in my house;
Warily esteeming all your craft and skilled co-ordination
As I do :
But your folly was to so
Intrude into the shadow of my childhood fears,
Your trespass danger to my clothed and certain years.


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G D Bolton                 1978