When I exercise I may release endorphins But they aren’t grateful
Month: January 2021
A Haiku Which Is Ultimately A Filler Post But Which Is Taking Full Ownership Of That Status
Sometimes my blog posts Improve when I edit them But this one did not
A Cinquain That May Explain My Own Lack Of Style Though Ultimately Belies The Attitude Of My Younger Self
Look coolBuy clothes that are Overpriced at half price Though can any label improve Self-worth?
A Haiku About A Homophonic Cause And Effect
Misinformation Can easily cause you to Miss Information
A Tanka Which Contains Irresponsible Advice With Regards Managing Wellbeing
Sometimes life is hard It seems like all hope is gone But do not despair Until you have checked the fridge If there is beer, there is hope
A Poem About The Oxymoronic Nature Of IT ‘Support’
Dear IT support Thanks for your reply It didn’t really help In fact it made me cry I know how to send emails And I can use Excel (Though if I’m being honest I can’t use it very well) But when things just stop working I don’t know what to do And that is why…
Snow Delightful
“Do you want to build a snowman?” a young Anna sings plaintively to her older sister, Elsa, secure in the knowledge that this offer will be rejected as it always is. I know this because Little Proclaims, my two-year-old daughter, is a fan of the hit Disney movie Frozen. Well, less a fan of the…
A Tanka That Mixes Milk Metaphors In A Largely Pretentious Effort To Appear Profound
They say there’s no point In crying over spilt milk Perhaps they are right But what if the spilt milk is The milk of human kindness?
A Cinquain About The Consequences Of Adopting A New Lifestyle
New you Eat less, get fit Make healthier choices Soon you’ll find that you have become Hungry
A Haiku That Advocates Entertaining The Notion That You Don’t Have All The Answers
Strongly held beliefs Are not, in and of themselves, Proof that you are right
A Haiku That Clarifies That Regardless Of Metaphoric Intent, I Really Don’t Have The Time, The Skills Nor Indeed The Inclination To Make Lemonade
It’s surely better When life does give you lemons To not accept them
A Cinquain That Encourages Procrastination
When tasks Seem like too much Do one bit at a time And soon you’ll find that you’ve achieved Not much
A Haiku About How I Miss The Administrative Red Tape Of Having To Book A Room In Order To Have A Meeting
Did we really have This many meetings back when Meetings needed rooms?
Fifty Shades Of Blue
According to some, today is Blue Monday. ‘Blue Monday’ is the pseudoscientific name often attributed to the third Monday in January, which is purported to be the most depressing day of the year. Although obviously complete nonsense, it does hold up to a small amount of scrutiny – Christmas is now long forgotten but the…
A Haiku About How Social Media Has Challenged My Understanding Of Language
If I don’t ‘like’ it It does not always follow That I dislike it
A Prosaic Post About Productive Posting And Pretentions Of Prodigious Poetic Performance
According to the Gods of WordPress, this is my 900th post since I started this blog, back in the fifth month of the year that I like to refer to as 2015. 299 of those posts (including this one) have occurred since I started, what is now comfortably, my longest ever blogging streak on the…
A Tanka About Why It Is Important To Consider When You Drink
As it is Friday I’ll probably have a drinkI drink on most days So I could not even think Of not drinking on Fridays
A Short But Inspiring Poem
If we want to achieve change Everyone must do their bit Everyone except for me Sadly, I’m a hypocrite
A Haiku That Offers Unhelpful Reassurance About The Current State Of Everything
Please do not worry I know the world seems broken But it always was
James Explains The Rules For ‘Lockdown 3’
We’re roughly a week into to what the cool kids are calling ‘Lockdown 3’ in England and there appears to be continuing confusion about what is allowed and what is, in fact, not allowed. Which is in itself confusing because everyone fully understood all of the rules during the last two lockdowns. Except for the…
A Matter Of Fact
Sometimes a fact can be attacked for being inexact But it is, in fact, inexact to claim that a fact is inexact For then it would not be a fact Because a fact is backed by the exact An unbacked fact is not yet a fact Though it may yet become a fact when it…
A Cinquain About How Sundays Aren’t What They Used To Be For Some Reason
Sunday A day of rest Maybe breakfast in bed But if you live with a toddler Less so
A Tanka That Continues A Recent Theme Of Mocking A Flawed Public Health Campaign While Also Trivialising Another January Health Challenge And Revealing That I Have A Similar Attitude To Nutrition To That Of A Small Child
Dry January Might still be easier than Veganuary I could manage without beer But I’ll always need ice-cream
A Haiku That Continues My Mockery Of A Flawed Public Health Campaign And Also Questions The Timing Of It
Dry January? I’m not even ready to Try January!
A Haiku That Demonstrates I Have Deliberately Misunderstood A Flawed Public Health Campaign In Order To Mock It
Dry January ?A month without any rain? I will drink to that!
Lockdown 3 – The Miracle Of Science
And so here we are in another lockdown. It is officially ‘Lockdown 3’ in England, and we must distinguish between the UK and England, because other parts of the UK have been doing things differently, but with, it must be said, similar levels of success. Which is to say hardly any success at all. ‘Lockdown…
2020 Foresight
The return to work after Christmas is always a difficult one. January is not the best of months anyway, what with all the obligatory self-improvement and cold weather, and having to work seems to just be adding insult to injury. January 2021 comes with some bonus challenges of course, thanks to the ongoing pandemic which,…
A Haiku That Tries To Justify Its Own Existence But Probably Fails To Do So
Back to work today No time to write anything More than this haiku
A Haiku About Lessons That Can Be Learned From Father Christmas To Help Ease The January Blues
Christmas is over But like Santa I’ll remain Jolly and quite fat
On The Ninth Day Of Christmas…
On the ninth day of Christmas My true love gave to me A reality check, “Christmas is over Now take down the bloody tree!”
Resolving To Be Resolute
As is customary on the first day of the year I intend to make some resolutions in order to stop being the rubbish version of me that the world has come to know and instead become a really good version of me. Maybe even to become the best me that I can be. But that…
James Proclaims! 