Don't you strive for the fame or pursue its fortune -- play a roulette game like a business tycoon, climb a high status ladder? don't even start,
you've already made it, you've got a good heart,
don't boast your conquests - your qualifications, the talent contests -- the expectations, don't conquer the mountains or top the charts --
you've already made it, you've got a good heart,
don't be frightened to lose, or to take a rejection, wear an ego bruise for your imperfection, your legacy is sleeping - you've got a head start,
you've already made it, you've got a good heart,
don't stack on your power, don't you mass on appeal, build the tallest tower or sign a record deal, bin your trophies - certificates - rip them apart,
you've already made it, you've got a good heart.
StephenPhilip Druce is based in Shrewsbury UK. He is published in the USA, India, the UK and Canada. He’s written for theatre plays in London and BBC 4 Extra.
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burdened with all the characteristics of our makers, we are struck down with their every trait for our precise imitation,
once the fresh dewy offspring shoots in the new wind, we rose from the good earth as one-off hopefuls,
the first day of spring -
"damn!, I'm turning into my mother!" shrieked one,
"I'm turning into my father!" shrieked another,
"We didn't bloom unique, we're all copies!" chanted the endless sea of petals, washed away by their own tears,
true, we are our makers,
what we do, and the way we do it,
every detail, passed down, traced back, and nobody ever broke the mold, never a break,
we're all sentenced to the same fate and there is no escape,
that's the fix,
so think twice before you roll the dice.
StephenPhilip Druce is based in Shrewsbury UK. He is published in the USA, India, the UK and Canada. He’s written for theatre plays in London and BBC 4 Extra.
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In Dylan on Worm’s Head, Rhys Hughes describes a misadventure that the Welsh poet had while hiking as a tribute to him on Dylan Thomas Day. Clickhereto read.
Munaj Gul gives an in memoriam for a photographer from Balochistan. Clickhere to read.
Musings of a Copywriter
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Notes from Japan
In A Golden Memory of Green Day in Japan, Suzanne Kamata tells us of a festival where she planted a tree in the presence of the Japanese royalty. Click here to read.
You're a novice that doesn't walk with any measure of style or grace, so fly off an icy mountain at seventy miles an hour on a pair on sticks,
olympic skiers get injured but you're exempt from such physical injury because you're a manager of a launderette,
ride a motorbike, it's the freest way to travel, free to leave the road and land on your head three fields away,
bungee jump! the ten second thrill is worth the trade off - whiplash and long term spinal damage,
fly on an aircraft as often as you can, you have more chance of getting struck by lightning than crashing in an airplane. Ignore the fact that unless the machine is in perfect working order you could nosedive from thirty thousand feet into an ocean bed that is so deep the creatures there have teeth shaped like tennis rackets,
undergo plastic surgery!
Put your blind faith in a bogus surgeon who may consequently render you with half a chin and no nostrils. Forget the post-op catastrophe, okay so you entrusted a surgeon with the credentials that extended to that of a pottery teacher -- he fled with your cash and now you breathe through your ears, but give it a go.
Ocean surf!
Take advice from the veteran surfers who lost all their limbs and torsos to numerous shark attacks. They can still roll their heads onto the surfboard. There is nothing more aesthetically pleasing than watching a human coconut surf on a giant pitta bread.
Get a tattoo!
The best way to pamper your soft, elegant, silky skin? -- deface it with ink! ink! A substance that if spilt over your coffee table would spark a major household crisis, but your precious velvety skin? -- screw it, you're good to go and vandalise yourself with tacky meaningless ink stains.
THE BIG LIGHT
She made a candlelit dinner, but without thinking he put the big light on so he could see what he was eating -- so she left him,
keeping her happy was like walking a tightrope for him, and the night he put the big light on, he fell screaming,
he hit the ground, unlike the falling leaf he caught when he placed it in her palm and asked her to make a wish,
he always forgave her, like a bird forgives another for stealing its bread,
and as he flew alongside her he wondered how passing clouds could find their way home,
he would talk about how the sun and the rain could make pretty rainbows - the colours of the flowers on the mountain he climbed to pick for her,
but without thinking he put the big light on so he could see what he was eating -- so she left him,
finished her meal,
blew out the candles and left him.
ANALOGY OF A POLITICIAN
Two schoolboys are summoned to the headmaster's office for stealing apples from a tree belonging to a resident next to the school field,
One of the boys admits to stealing an apple, but tells the headmaster that his friend didn't take one -- though both boys took an apple each,
one of the boys is given detention but the 'innocent' boy escapes unpunished,
the 'innocent' boy tells the headmaster he is profoundly remorseful for being present at the scene of the 'crime', and though regrettable he fully understands the decision to punish his friend as it isn't fair on the owner of the apple tree.
The 'innocent' boy is the politician.
StephenPhilip Druce is based in Shrewsbury UK. He is published in the USA, India, the UK and Canada. He’s written for theatre plays in London and BBC 4 Extra.
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