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What Would I Do Without My Hands

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My HandsMy hands are very important to me.  I do practically everything using my hands, so if I was to lose them I would probably go crazy.

This article is a challenge as part of GBE2 (Great Blogging Experience 2) which is to write an article about your Hand in exactly 100 words.  The little ditty below is exactly that – 100 words.  I hope you enjoy it.

What would I do without my hands
If I fell over how would I land

No fighting back if things came to blows
No brushing my teeth or picking my nose

So many things are just part of my life
Like being able to hug my wife

 I don’t know how those who lose them survive
Without my hands I would not feel alive

So here’s to my hands, my fingers and thumbs
And the joy of being able to wipe my own bum

Without any  hands don’t know what I would do
No more rhymes to write – boo hoo!

The Money Tree

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the money treeI wish that we had a money tree
So that life could be simpler for you and me

We wouldn’t have to work our lives away
Hoping retirement will come one day

When retiring I wonder will we still have good health
With enough money to live on, let alone wealth

Those vacations we dreamed of so impossible seem
There just isn’t enough money to realise those dreams

It’s all we can do to work hard and save
For an overseas trip, one of these days

With our children now living in distant lands
Trips to go see them are all we can plan

But alas we can barely pay for those trips
Let alone dream of others, with savings of zip

So for leisure we go out and take country strolls
And save every penny for our important goals

Because family and kids are things that we miss
So we save hard all year for that big hug and kiss

Maybe some day soon a new life can begin
If we manage to get a big lottery win

But hope as we might, for this fanciful chance
So far lady luck hasn’t given us a glance

Oh I just wish that we could win the lottery
Or if not, find ourselves a real money tree

Typos Typos Everywhere

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When I published my poem Typos Typos Everywhere, which is about typos, I little thought that I would get a lot of traffic from it.

My traffic hopes for Friday were therefore based on a news article about passengers stranded on a plane in Scotland, but when I just looked, this had only 51 page veiws! Drat!

However, I did get almost 900 page views for my poem on Friday, but I haven’t got a clue where from.

It wasn’t Stumbleupon, could be via RSS Feeds though, or just because people are searching for the title, which I decided upon because I thought it was a catchy title.

It seems “Typos Typos Everywhere” is some sort of Sci-Fi short movie. Go figure…

So with my article being number one on Yahoo (thanks Yahoo) and on the 1st page on Google and Bing, I assume it’s searches that are getting the traffic for me.

Sometimes, those page views come in for the most unlikely reasons.

Turning My Hand To Poetry

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I started to write on a site called Associated Content several weeks ago, a site where a lot of authors write anything from product reviews to poetry and short stories.  Having posted a number of articles, I started reading some of the poetry, and having on occasion felt the urge to turn my thoughts into something that rhymes, I decided to try and write on a daily basis.

My mind is known to wander – frequently, and therefore you will find me writing about lots of different topics, but since my mind is emptier during my drive to work, some of these originated while driving. 

I hope you enjoy them.  If so, please leave a comment you let me know what you think…

If you have an account with Twitter, Facebook or any of the other Social Networking sites, please can you help by sharing this with your friends – if you like the poems of course.

Any suggestions for new poems would also be really appreciated, just leave me a comment and I will see what I can come up with.