Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc.
Andrew is a Greek name
From ‘Andros‘ – of a man.
It’s meaning apparantly
‘Manly’ or ‘bold’.
One of Christ’s disciples
A fisherman by trade
Simon-Peter’s brother
Among the first Christ called.
Patron Saint of Scotland
Of Greece and Russia too.
I had a Scottish grandad
Is why they called me that.
His flag is the diagonal cross
Used on the Scottish flag
It’s said it’s how they crucified
This early Christian Saint.
You desperately want to be happy
But can only be happy when
You get that new job
Or a lottery win
You’ll surely be happy then?
There’s always another hurdle
One more barrier to cross
But you’ll only really be happy
When you know that you are the boss.
The truth is you’ll never be happy
Till you realise what happy is not
It’s not reaching out for the next thing
It’s to be happy with what you have got.
What ever it is
You want in life
You have to remember this.
You won’t always get
It right first time
Something will go amiss.
You have to try
And try again
And not lose sight of this.
There’s no such thing
As a failure till
The point when you give in.
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What do you think gets better with age? – (Daily Prompt)
The thing that gets better is hindsight
It’s better looking back.
You see the things you should have done
And wish you’d done them then.
You miss what you took for granted
And thought would always last
Appreciate them better
Now they‘re in the past.
The young think age brings wisdom
But we learn by getting it wrong
They can’t learn from our mistakes
They have to make their own.
We wish we could start over
But it won’t come round again
Looking back it falls into place
You can see what you didn‘t see then.
Oh the power of hindsight
Hindsight‘s a wonderful thing
No point being wise after events
If you couldn’t be wise back then.
A response to the word of the day prompt https://cyranny.com/2020/05/20/cathartic-word-of-the-day-challenge/
I sometimes get angry
and just blow my top.
I find it cathartic.
It happens a lot.
I know you don’t like it
You think I should stop
But you’re really annoying
And things just build up.
You’re really annoying
You must know that’s true?
Would I get quite so angry
if it wasn’t for you?
The same irritations
again and again.
It’s as if you don’t listen
or hear what I’m saying.
It bubbles on under
the anger I feel
till it all gets too much
and is unleashed on you.
It’s better I speak up
and vent it on you
than build up resentment
till one day we’re through.
A response to the Word of the day prompt – Understated
He was modest, unassuming
an understated man.
He played down his importance
and underplayed his hand.
He was very softly spoken
and didn’t speak a lot
but when he spoke they’d listen.
His words would hit the spot.
The faint praise that they gave him
was less than he deserved.
If dragged into the limelight
he would plainly be unnerved.
A man of great potential
most of it unmet.
Hopefully his time will come
but it hasn’t yet.
Much too self efacing
modest to a ‘t’.
He much preferred the background
So we just let him be.
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/understated/
Retrospect?
With due respect
I’d barely even started yet!
They took the Daily Prompt away
But haven’t really told us why.
It helped a lot
– it got me views
And now it’s gone.
That’s such bad news.
via Retrospective
It’s broken, fragmented,
smashed into bits,
totally busted,
defective and chipped.
I’m not sure who broke it;
what damaged the thing?
It’s mangled, demolished,
disgusting. Just fling!
Too hard to restore it
and put the thing right.
It’s pointless and useless
A hideous sight!
A throw away thing
In a throw away world
No longer of use
They’re discarded and hurled.
via Broken
Juxtapose two opposites
Completely different things.
Contradictory qualities
And differences they bring.
Sometimes you must make a choice
And choose between the two.
But ‘either or’ solutions
Don’t always fit the bill.
You needn’t always make that choice
Although you sometimes will.
There are ‘both and’ solutions
Where both things can be true.
And embracing life’s diversity
Will be the thing to do.
via Juxtapose
A response to the Daily Prompt
You longed to be known and famous.
It happened and now you’re not sure.
The paparazzi are calling
You’re not quite sure what it’s for.
You don’t want them knowing your business
You don’t want the fuss anymore.
The trappings of fame are perfidious
You wish you were once more obscure.
You can’t put the cork in the bottle
The good life is starting to pall.
The eyes of the world are upon you
You wish you could hide from it all.
via Famous
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