Quit yer bitchin’
and scratch where yer itchin’.
However-many years you’ve got,
light more damn candles
and quit yer complainin’.
Quit yer terminable thinkin’
‘bout pushin’ up daisies.
You best be lookin’
to pick ‘em instead.
Water ‘em good and
scratch where yer itchin’.
Happy 7th year anniversary dVerse! Back from our summer respite, Grace hosts Quadrille Monday, asking us to include the word “itch” or a form of the word in our exactly 44 word poem, sans title. dVerse, the virtual pub for poets, opens at 3 PM Boston time. Come join our anniversary celebration by posting your own quadrille, or just reading the creativity of others. Photo from pixabay.com
Amen! Happy Anniversary to dVerse 😊
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Amen indeed! 🙂
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A fun poem for an anniversary, Lill!
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Nice to start out the new year with a bit of fun! 🙂
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Sweet! 😎🥀
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Thank you!
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Yes, let’s hear that down home hillbilly advice ! Like something out of Faulkner meets Al Capp. Nice to be out on the trail again.
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Hah! I wanted to title it Hillbilly Elegy….but that’s the name of an excellent book! Have you read it? Glad you enjoyed….and oh yes….in the a-bit-adjusted song words of Dale Evans and Roy Rogers….Happy Trails to us! 🙂
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What afun poem, although I would not term it hillbilly. I would term it a universal truth among those of us that get bitten by skeeters, gnats, ticks, and chiggers. Happy Anniversary Lillian!
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Happy Anniversary to you too! Hope you’ll read my haibun just posted today for Tuesday Poetics….I’ve learned from the best and when I get to that haiku part, I’m always asking myself, would Toni approve? 🙂 ❤
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Love it! Pick those daisies…!
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Yes! Daisies and sunflowers too! 🙂
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Stop counting and just water the blooms that fill the days ahead. A fun, and slightly sobering poem!
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Ah….excellent insight into my thoughts here, my friend!
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Thank you!
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Loving the reprimand in that accent! 😁
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Kind of fun to take on an accent! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed.
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I did!😃
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I love the fun in this poem, it practically oozes joy.
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I thought, to open dVerse’s 7th year, it would be good to have some fun! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed.
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Couldn’t agree more – would love to hear you reading it, though! With that accent!
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Hah! I always read aloud in my editing process….and it was fun to take on this personna! 🙂
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What fun and I love the sing-song cadence ~ Happy anniversary Lillian ~
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….and to you, Grace! And another year of fun and challenges begins! 🙂
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Better to pick daisies than to push them up.
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Exactly! 🙂
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What a fun read!
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Always happy to provide some fun….especially at the beginning of dVerse’s 7th year! 🙂
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Such lovely lilt and cadence in this one, Lillian 💖💖
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Glad you enjoyed, Sanaa!
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Hehe.. i’ve just been a Ttchin’
For dVerse to come back and
here you are Lillian Writing Poetry
About Pushing up Daisies.. hAha..
don’t know if you have access to Facebook
Profile Pic Links but if you do this is how i Push
Up Daisies at Super-Walmart as i’m always just
a Itchin’ to Public Dance as Yesterday i completed a Milestone
of 9600 Miles of Doing just that aLong with 6 Million Words
of Long Form Poetry in close to a 59 Month Span of Dates..
True.. i’m 58
Now and my
Sister insists
that i will Be A Itchin’
to Dance until 80.. as
my Father’s Identical Twin Brother
my Uncle Has A Selfie Doing it at 84..
With all the Ladies at the Country Music Club
where his 84 year old Wife Still Plays Piano there.. Lalla and Ted..
His Senior Class Motto from High School was from Shakespheare..
“I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none”..
Hehe True.. Considering i Mix a Free Style Ballet with Martial Arts as i Dance
i Broke
the
McBeth ‘He’ Man Rules
for i was/am itchin’ to JusT Do more.. too..;)
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Ah my friend, Katie! LOVE this photo you’ve posted here in reply….and oh to be 58 years young! Keep dancing m friend 🙂
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SMiLes mY FriEnd
LiLLiaN LiVE
LonG
TruTH
FoR
LoVE’S iTCHiNG
JoY FReEDoM oF LiGHT
And Thank You
Very Much it’s
Nice to be Fully Accepted too..:)
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There are days when I could stand to read this. Good reminder and great for a big smile that makes my face crack.
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Smiling every day….thankful for every day….and definitely scratchin’ where it itches! 🙂
Glad to give you a smile, my friend!
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Ha! Fun stuff. Living is better than the alternative, even with itchin’
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Absolutly! Glad you enjoyed, Sascha.
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Great line… I too would rather pick and scratch that be folded under!!
dwight
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Yes, indeed! Thankful for every day — and even the itchin’ 🙂
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Ha, that too!!
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I’d rather be watering daisies than pushin’ them up…
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Exactly! 🙂
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kaykuala
Water ‘em good and
scratch where yer itchin’.
Agreed Lillian! Good advice and good close. Just quit the bitching and do one’s own thing!
Hank
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You’ve got that right, Hank! 🙂
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Great advice Lillian!
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Yes, indeed! 🙂
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a wonderful tone set (I really like the sparky, fiery element in the voice) – and the truth for the humour! LOL – wonderful word playing and such a great re-start to another season ….
better to pick the daisies, or at least dance amongst them, rather than be pushing them up indeed!
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Exactly! Glad you enjoyed it….it was a fun one to write! 🙂
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This was a bit of fun, Lillian, but I agree with Charley, too.
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Yes indeed…..aging can be a sobering thought….I prefer to think of it as a blessing and sometimes a challenge to the knees and the mind 🙂
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I’m not dead yet, I think I’m getting better 🙂
💜the good advice!
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Yes! In many many ways, aging is getting better. Perhaps we are like fine wine? 🙂
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You tell ’em, Lillian! Love this.
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Gotta keep dancing! 🙂
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There is something about delivering serious honest to good advice in a light-hearted way. Me thinks it makes ’em listen!! NIce one, Lil.
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Thanks, Mish! Just catching up on reading and commenting this morning….will be hitting the trail in a bit and enjoying others’ too. Glad you liked this one!
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You sure have way with words….. Lovely write up 🌸✌
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