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This page, you'll be relieved to find
Has way too much on its wee mind
That's why it is so far behind
On kaiku
Labels: kaiku
Should take the car to the garage
Or maybe get a good massage
But next week is looming large
So, sleep
Labels: kaiku
Saturday went by really fast
Barely here, and now it's the past
I just can't make the weekend last
*poof* gone
Labels: kaiku
One more we think we can bake up
Partly, to, um, kinda make up
And a bit of slack to take up
Okay?
Labels: kaiku
One more to go and we are done
Then we must—really—have to run
Into that bloody awful sun
To work
Labels: kaiku
So why is it that we did shirk?
It wasn't just some arbit quirk
Our back was out, and we had work
Honest!
Labels: kaiku
Three poems behind! Alas! Alack!
Get this monkey offa my back
At least give it a bloody whack
Begone!
Labels: kaiku
Music may soothe a savage breast
But for the demons in our chest
Silly rhyme, bad puns and low jests
Work best
Labels: kaiku
Grouchy, tired and headachey
Shall quaff a cup of Munnar tea
And write some lousy poetry
There. Better.
Labels: kaiku
If, perchance, you don't like cricket
Boy, you're on a sticky wicket
Get a bucket, lad, and kick it
You're dead
Labels: kaiku
Friday blues are a-kicking in
Naught to do, not a fricking thing
'cept watch my arteries thick'ning
Yaaaawn
Labels: kaiku
Early to bed, early to rise
That was my day, surprise, surprise
Me, not someone else in disguise
Honest!
Labels: kaiku
Ye who twitter, hear our plea:
We ♥ you but, dude, really
Could you not put your tweets on FB?
Please?
Labels: kaiku
lipid profile: done, thyroid test: check.
also did the eye test; I need specs.
middle age is a pain in the neck.
heck
Labels: kaiku
noun.
Someone who assiduously builds himself (it's usually a him) up as a social media expert with copious blog posts, tweets, et cetera that cite what the genuine innovators have done, and adds on a layer of jargon and marketing speak in the hope that clueless brand manager types will hire him as a consultant, and similarly ignorant media will think of him as an expert. (The latter is likely, because media types tend to have take the 're' out of 'research' and hit Google, and the SMC will have ensured high rankings by linking to — and being linked back to reciprocally by — other SMCs.) If either of these things happen at least once, he will then post/tweet/status-message it to all and sundry. Over time, he starts to believe it himself.
The only people more boring than SMCs are SEOs.
Labels: neologisms
Summer brings me to my knees, hear me wheeze:
Could we have some breeze, pretty please?
I don't want to freeze, just some ease..
Some rain?
Labels: kaiku
Now that our rep is doggy poo
Shubh Easter to all of you
Easter Mubarak, that works too
Shalom
Labels: kaiku
Actually it wasn't late
In GMT, it's the right date
And for our friends in the U States
It's early
Labels: kaiku
Saturday's kaiku is so late
Wasn't because I had a date
No, wasn't too much on my plate
Just lazy
Labels: kaiku
Didja see it? "Tee Gee Eye Gee Eff!" *
Sacrilege! Double-Yoo Tee Eff!
Stone that pagan bloody Griff!
Crucify him!
* Our Facebook status message, from Thursday night up to the time we changed it to this one on Friday, was "TGIGF." Our chances of salvation are now even further down the toilet than before.
Labels: kaiku
Neighbour's getting new window grills
Hammers, cutters, bloody loud drills
Makes me want to head for the hills
Bastards
Labels: kaiku
This loyal soldier never shirks
In blazing heat he's off to work
The office has a winning perk:
It's ACed
Labels: kaiku
Recessionary times are rough
But finding rhymes is just as tough
Even harder to make you lough
See?
Labels: kaiku
The inimitable Mr Al Jarreau. 8 minutes and 25 seconds of magic.
Via Harini's Facebook news feed.
Labels: jazz, music, Things that make me go :), video
Working steadily down list of chores
That's how my weekend goes
So tell me, how was yours?
(in Kaiku)
Labels: kaiku
Read all night with a clean conscience;
Breakfast at 3 - ah, the insouciance;
nothing to write but more nonsense!
The weekend!
Labels: kaiku
This verse form, we think, should have a name
It's terse, it's strict, it's fun and games
And so we dub thee, without shame
The Kaiku
Labels: kaiku
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Follow, all ye who must know more.Words
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually produce a masterpiece. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
~ Eyler Coates
to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting
~ e e cummings
In three words i can sum up everything I've learned about life.
It goes on.
~ Robert Frost
Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering,
There is a crack in everything;
That's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
~ Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
I fell in love – that is the only expression I can think of – at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behavior very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.
~ Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet, short-story writer, and playwright, "Poetic Manifesto" in the Texas Quarterly, Winter 1961
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
~Thomas Mann, novelist, Nobel laureate (1875-1955)
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
~ W. Somerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965)
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
~ Al Rogers
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
~ Henry Winkler, actor (1945- )
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
~ George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, author (1689-1762)
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
~ Satchel Paige
Fake it till you make it.
~ (Heard on West Wing)
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