THE SILLY SOLUTION
(No relation to the earlier post!)
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You find something silly and say it,
Depressed people rarely display it…
Making folks laugh–
A good epitaph–
If surviving kin okay it!
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Why consider being dead,
Let’s get that out of my head…
Thinking “happy”
And act it snappily,
Our laughter turning faces red.
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Positive is as does,
Emotions follow because…
“Do” and find
Changing of mind,
Follow with great guffaws.
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–Jonathan Caswell
SOMETHING DIFFERENT TODAY…!
He really felt so dismayed,
So many chores had been delayed…
Dizziness set in
Walking within,
He knew he’d not made the grade.
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Tempted he was to toss
Out his good name by loss…
Of self-control
Taking the toll,
Defiling and losing his cross.
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But along came bloggers sharing
Their hope and joy in caring…
There still might be time
To turn to rhyme,
Instead of his grievances bearing!
–Jonathan Caswell
A QUESTION OF HOW AND WHY
Bitterness breeds around the edge
Of what seems no more…
Trying to make things work only
Makes a person sore.
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Soreness rises with the thought
Of what no more may be…
Without having great expense
And severe penalty!
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Questions rise unanswered,
But for consistent “noes”…
Hopes alive must be shed
Like worn out clothes.
–Jonathan Caswell
ULTRA-DOWNER
He quietly sits alone,
With wife or close friends near….
So used they are to his quietness
He might as well not be here.
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Not that they are ignoring him
Or he ignoring them…
But he never says much either way,
Even though they are his friends.
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Once in a while it’s the same old story,
He’s no right to complain…
He can’t expect others to read his mind
Or hear his “downer” refrain.
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To tell you the truth its been a while
Since he felt this low…
When you don’t want to bother with poetry,
There’s not further down to go.
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Blood sugar levels are part of the tale
And getting worked up over things….
If he opened up to someone he trusts,
Perhaps then his heart could sing.
–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 