My "bump" was in 2016, aged 48, when I suffered a stroke. This blog charts my recovery. (Header clipart licensed by pngguru.com.)
This is my response to the earlier Flashback Track Friday prompt, where today we are thrown the Beatles track Tomorrow Never Knows and asked to describe:
I rouse from sleep,
I see your form,
I hear your gentle snore,
I never dreamed,
In twist of fate,
I’d meet with such rapport.
inspired by Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of of 30 April 2021, mercurial.
When a lovesick young scholar was dumped,
His performance in Math classes slumped,
No less than mercurial,
Computing factorial,
But subtracting things just left him stumped.
Anybody fancy listening to another blinding Beatles track, and maybe taking on a prompt question afterwards?
This is one of those songs where I thought of the question easily enough, but don’t really have a clue yet how I will respond. So I had better start thinking. Maybe for you, it is more obvious?
If there was one thing to be said for LSD, it’s that the artists became very creative afterwards.
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inspired by Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of of 29 April 2021, hamper.
The son of a Middle East sheikh,
Got dismayed when his bath sprang a leak,
So to hamper the flow,
He stuck in his toe,
But the water so hot, made him shriek.
I posted another retro track just a few hours ago, on the Songshine Sounds site I share with KK.
I can’t believe that this track seems to have had such a limited release, that would never happen today. But here, it was a #1 hit, it featured in one of those Hugh Grant romance movies a few years ago and is still played from time to time today.
Each Thursday I want to present a “golden oldie” track. I’m not going to place any bounds on genre, neither am I going to define exactly what “oldie” means to me, but I will try to keep to that description of “golden”. I hope you think so, too.
Here’s my pick this week:
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inspired by Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of of 28 April 2021, vacant.
A colour-blind student Hispanic
Had secured a new job as mechanic,
But when asked to use red,
He sprayed blue paint instead,
And his gaffe left the foreman volcanic
KK picked a superb set today, I don’t know where she keeps finding all this good music. (Well, okay, I do because she says so!)
This is Norah Jones, a name that I recognise and whose music I already like. Just her and a piano – brilliant.
If you’re anything like us, you’re missing your regular drip of live music to keep you going. Luckily, lots of mini-concerts are still happening online, and we can tune into to get an intimate musical fix.
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inspired by Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of of 27 April 2021, abhor.
She had married a husband so mean,
Was expected to cook and to clean,
How she’d hate and abhor,
All her newlywed chores,
So she poisoned him with Paris Green.
I had an interesting chemistry lesson while writing this. Better known as Paris Green, Copper Acetate is an emerald green compound that was used as a pigment and was favoured by artists such as Monet (1840 – 1926) and Cezanne (1839 – 1906), who used it excessively in their works.
It is also so poisonous that it was used as rat poison and insecticide, even in their time.
