A World With Too Little Time For Humour Poem by Terence George Craddock

A World With Too Little Time For Humour

Rating: 4.5


in a world rushing
with little time
too little good...

humour and wit
but too much anger
hate and violence...

there is a special place
there is a special need
for good witty poetry...

to write such poetry
is mind soul satisfying
partly a sacred trust...

I could write
more but I am suddenly
all butterflies...

not having eaten
caterpillar for dinner
this defies explanation...

which is extra unusual
as I am fixated usually
a moth in candle flame...

how to explain butterflies in stomach
not fixated moth in candle flame
not singed wings but a stomach pain...

Monday, October 5, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: humour,lifestyle,philosophical
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in October 2020 on the 3&5.10.2020.
Inspired by the poem 'Dora Diller' by the poet Jack Prelutsky.
Dedicated to the poet Jack Prelutsky.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Terry Craddock 05 October 2020

Deluke there is a town about 139 km from my hometown in New Zealand called Hokitika, supposed to take 1 hr 49 minutes to drive there along a coastal mountain highway. They have a wildfood festival there once a year, the crystallized native worms, actually quite big and yellow, before shot through with spirits are wonderful. We should to that together.

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Terry Craddock 05 October 2020

In Jakarta Indonesia we ate ripe durian by the side of the road, best at night out of the hot sun. Durian grows on trees, I love the taste, some do not, it is the alcohols (primarily ethanol) in it that makes you drunk if you eat to much, as we can easily do. Many Muslims I knew in Indonesia love durian, because Allah made it to be eaten, so they can eat and feel very mellow, or worse, but happy.

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Deluke Muwanigwa 05 October 2020

Excellent one again. We have to lighten up and laugh some more. Ehhh....we eat mopane worms before they become butterflies in the stomach....delicious....There a mopane tree at my farm....no harm...no barn. Anyway Terry we will split our ribs with mirth notwithstanding

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Paul Brookes 05 October 2020

I agree but I can't find the wit or the comedy, except black comedy, at the moment the times are grey and at times black. Strange how on of the smallest things in nature, the virus, can have caused such such a tsunami

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