Good grief a doppelgänger
Another one like me?!!
Sounds a really scarey thought
But can happen apparently!
Is it just a look thing
So facially we’re twins
Or, shaped by our appearance,
Experience similar things?
Can different personalities
Hide behind one face
Or is there another, like of me
But in a different place?
via Doppelgänger
Diffident and quite reserved
He was loath to join in
And would rather observe.
He’d keep his distance
Quitely watch
He didn’t care for others much.
Meal times he would eat alone.
And, as for company
Preffered his own.
Yet there’s little doubt
He didn’t miss much.
We didn’t know him
But he knew us.
He’d stand to one side
And just observe.
What lay behind
That quiet reserve?
via Observe
A response to the Daily Prompt
Astonished, astounded
Surprised and quite shocked
My faith in humanity
Shaken and rocked!
You oughtn’t have done it
You really should not.
It’s really quite dreadful
And won’t be forgot!
Astonished, confounded
Confused and bemused
Who’d have expected
That you’d hold such views?!
It’s really surprising
I’m taking it hard
Just so astonished
You’ve caught me off guard.
via Astonish
A response to the Daily Prompt
Not another tantrum
A viscous show of pique
Hate it when you show us
Your mean and viscous streak.
Spare us all your temper
Things flung across the room
Whatever has provoked it
It’s you ends in the wrong.
Spare us all your tantrum
Your viscous hissy fit
Control your wicked temper
Just calm down a bit.
via Tantrum
Elaborate, complicated or opaque!
That’s not the stuff I celebrate.
Keep it plain and simple me
Like to boast simplicity.
Over complicated, deep
Learning curve
That’s much to deep?
Some can do it
But not me.
Won’t expand, elaborate
For emphasis
I’ll just repeat.
via Elaborate
Once we were legion, now we’re depleted.
So few of us now; we used to be more.
There’s me and my brothers, a few others too
Not sure about some of them; not sure of you!
Surrounded, depleted, outnumbered too few
Our ranks are diminished, whose with us, are you?
Do you stand where you once did? Do you stand with us now?
Our numbers depleted, we sorely need you.
Certainties questioned, the things we once knew,
We’re down to the hard core, the core chosen few.
Rally the ranks, stay true to the cause
it may be a lost cause but surely it’s yours?
via Deplete
You were luminescent
I was incandescent
I glowed with the heat
Of my anger.
You shone with a cool, clear light.
I burned with the heat
Of my temper.
You glowed
With a gentle charm.
Your life was luminescent
I raged at your gentle calm.
via Luminescent
Rush? Rush?
Must I be quick?
Or is another meaning hid?
The basket mid the rushes hid
Is that where baby Moses is?
Or could the rushes hide a trap
That heedless prey may stumble on?
Or just be laid there on the floor
Soft bedding for a gentle nap?
The lesson is that fools rush in
First take a pause and then begin.
via Rush
The Daily Prompt
You’ve caught me out. I’m slightly shocked.
You’ve kind of caught me on the hop.
The ink’s not dry, it’s still quite wet.
I haven’t wrote a poem yet…
It kind of starts a bit like this
But what comes next you’ll have to guess.
Don’t pressure me or make me sweat.
I haven’t wrote a poem yet.
I’ll write one soon, if you can wait
but hurry me up; it won’t be great.
Peeking now is just not fair
Half an idea, it’s not quite there!
Not quite there. It’s such a pity
Still born, half formed, inchoate ditty.
via Inchoate
Such radiance;
Your beaming smile
It surely can’t be
Meant for me?
Can this be love
The radiant smile
That stretched across your face
I see?
Your smile
Has such effect on me
Your face so lit
Sheer poetry.
My response to the Daily Prompt via Radiant — The Daily Post
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