Monday, May 12, 2008

Happy Birthday Clare, love Mervyn

THE TROUBLE WITH GERANIUMS

The trouble with geraniums
is that they’re much too red!
The trouble with my toast is that
it’s far too full of bread.

The trouble with a diamond
is that it’s much too bright.
The same applies to fish and stars
and the electric light.

The troubles with the stars I see
lies in the way they fly.
The trouble with myself is all
self-centred in the eye.

The trouble with my looking-glass
is that it shows me, me;
there’s trouble in all sorts of things
where it should never be.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Clare:
¡Happy birthday! I hope you had a great day.
Let's talk soon.
Best wishes,
bea

Anonymous said...

Hope it's fantastically fantastic 54th year coming up for you. Good luck and strength to you for your move and building project.

Lots of love from
The Bird family xxxxx

Anonymous said...

Oh Please. Your reports cant report, please don't let them start writing trashy poems.

Anonymous said...

Actually I quite liked it, but was a little confused by its juxtaposition with Clare's birthday wishes. Is Mervyn a new PGABNB reporter?

Anonymous said...

Well, if you like that write-it-while-you're-on-the-toilet kind of stuff.

Anonymous said...

But still, what's the connection? And who is this Clare person? And, what's that picture trying to prove? And why is the woman in the green t-shirt wearing sunglasses when she has her eyes closed anyway?

Anonymous said...

Come on all, don't worry your little selves about anything you come across on PGABNB blot, it's always rubbish. I only visit the site (very rarely) when I'm feeling low to see how utterly stupid it is and remind myself there are worse things I could be doing with my time.

Anonymous said...

Ok, before I say it... Is this definately a birthday? I'm not going to be conned into sending birthday wishes on the wrong day again, it's just too traumatic.

Well i'm a soft-touch and i'll say it anyway but only because the photo is nice. If it's wrong though, I will have to sue PGABNB for publicising misleading information. You have been warned.
Anyway, here goes...

Happy Birthday Clare! I hope you had a wonderful day! Sending lots of love to you from us xxx

Lovely poem by the way. I didn't realise PGABNB had so many troubles though...

Anonymous said...

Lets keep it simple ; yeh lets keep this plain
Lets not have silly poetry ;on your birthday it's so tame
So here it is nice and simple; yeh simon's got a pimple and a dimple;
And you Clare have lots of birthday wishes;so that means Karol should do the dishes. The end.
Lots of love from us four far away xxxxxxx

Anonymous said...

Any old nonsense
Any old pap
Go as far as you like
Go off the map

Silly old poems
Silly odd people
My hand is a church
My fingers a steeple

Happy birth days
Windy after noons
Inappropriate pictures
Rubbish blog spot

Anonymous said...

Thankfully I don't think Clare does computer stuff.

Simon said...

Actually, I doubt that Clare has even seen this!

Anonymous said...

What the blog is going on and who are all these bods and there comments!!!!
any way sorry its late clare happy birthday hope it was fun xxxxxmwwa
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Anonymous said...

I did eight of them.


Must fly, getting that nesting feeling.

Anonymous said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope you do see all these well wishes one day clare!
lots of love ella and the gang xxx