h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Though I am a humble man
My heart I offer to you
My words do not fail me now
I'll let the truth flow through
My thoughts of you are constant
You steal my free time away
I knew from first I saw you
I'd want to see you everyday
My arms are always open
My words I'll not miscontrue
My heart is too busy racing
For Im so in love with you.

misconstrue even!

Rick, what a romantic poem. It's similar to some of C.T.Ward's beautiful tracks (which I keep listening to!).

Hi Polly,it's really great to hear from you again,thank you very much for your undying support over a very long while now,I feel our cyber chats have helped me a great deal,I know you've been a little disheartened of late but hey,tomorrows your birthday another year and all that but the good news is "you are still here" so I hope this birthday can bring you a new year with a lot more cheer and the happiness that you truly deserve.

Hello dear Rick.

Thank you for your lovely sentiments. Yes, you have been posting your verse here for quite some time now. And ofcourse I always read it! Maybe an anthology of your best writings is now due?!

We had such a storm earlier today. It was like night here at 9am. The sky is getting black again. I had a cream tea in the local nice hotel on my birthday. And tonight I am out for a meal. And a glass of wine or two - which I'm really looking forward to!

Christmas soon! And that is where all your poems came in, isn't it. 'A card for Christmas'.

Have a happy weekend.

xx

In loving memory
The headstone said
All that's inscribed
Above the dead
No preparation
For those who survive
Who dont know
Why,they're still alive
Who feel pain
In their empty bed
Remain sleepless
Thoughts,in their head
Why me Lord?
They ask each day
Because both
Is two much,too take away.

The morning sun brings hope
For another brand new day
Before dawn are hopes are dashed
By thoughts of yesterday
The sins of the father
Are in our sons and daughters too
With our indoctrination
They are inbred in you
Forgiveness and understanding
Different sides of the same street
As hatred and revenge are too demanding
Far too indifferent to meet
If love can make a difference
It must come from and open hand
Or the iron fist of religious education
Will ever seperate this land

Dont stop the train rollin'
Going down the track
It'll be my saviour
I shall not look back

Jesus is there waitin'
Im the guest at tea
They'll be celebrating
When they all see me

Please forgive me driver
I cant take no more
When you see this diver
Put foot to the floor

Can you hear me Jesus
Meet me at the gate
Because that'll please us
Those who cannot wait

Dont stop this train Rollin'
It's my destiny
'cus I through with sinnin'
Please train set me free.

(this is one for tickle to tune up,in the gravelly voice of Johnny Cash please tickle. )

Just in case you need a few more verses tickle....?

I learnt how to love
I learnt how to smile
Now she's gone up above
One stands out a mile

I've skanked out with wiskey
It dont work no more
Livin' is to risky
Even up the score

Peace train are you commin'
My deliverence
My sorry mind's numbin'
It cant make no sense

Jesus is there waitin'
Does he look like me
Just anticipatin'
And just thirty three.

This life's road Im travelling
Is making me blue
I feel my life unravelling
Because I miss you
I've tried to make headway
On this oneway street
But this aint my way
To feel the Earth beneath my feet
The direction Im moving
Takes me futher from you
But my life aint improving
With the lack of you
I tell myself keep moving
But pain still follows me
Cutting a deeper groove in
The very heart of me.

Our moutains seem taller every day
Still our waters continue to rise
From global warming we cant get away
It's happening in front of our eyes
Seas are striking on virgin land
Consuming more of the shore
Our averice is feeding the hand
That beats us more and more
Blindly we fail to recognize
That like bacteria we all breed
That ulitmately it'll be the size
Of our population we cannot feed.

Thanks for the song, Rikii. I'd better have a few more cigarettes before I start, to hit the right gravelly note.

BTW, how long have they had a Baggies smiley on here?

Please let me down gently
Now you've broken my heart
Please now don't walk away
It's tearing me apart
I cant face tomorrow
And wake up all alone
There's just too much sorrow
You've gone as cold as stone
Please give me one more night
I want to hold you near
One night too hold you tight
Is that too much my dear?

We live in hope yet die in despair
Like those with dementia in a bucket chair
Where the voluminous mind leaks into a drain
Drip by drip they bleed their brain
Once an adult,twice a child
Heads empty,eyes pathetic,wild.

This, of course, does not apply to BBC R4 messageboard users, who now live in despair and are coming round to the conclusion that
"to die....is a consummation devoutly to be wished."

Love envelopes us like a comfy shawl
Sitting snugly upon the shoulders
Affording a glow that permeates
Spreading from the biggest toe
To every single hair upon one's nape
Releasing an elixir
That assures us
That tomorrow
Will be even better
Than today.

When love is so good
you just dont want to let go
Sometimes it's so hard
To let your feelings show
A misplaced smile
Can turn someone away
Bad breath?
You're so yesterday
So if you've only a minute
To make an impression
You'd best learn fast
'cus life's just one lesson.

Sometimes...life, is the hardest lesson
It gives us many things we dont want
It takes away those we love most of all
Showing us all that all those we hate
Will all hate you back even more
It teaches us our weaknesses
It governs our strength
Shares with us laughter,pain and tears
Life make us responsible
Shows us that the space we need to breathe
Is also needed by others
It teaches that not all love is good
Yet...wisdom cannot be passed on it must be earned
So... live in hope and hope that you'll live.

Im a cyborg circa 1949
Born on a Birmingham production line
Made in womb and engine room
To serve as serf until doom
Given only a limited education
Moulded to reduce the wage inflation
Given limited promotional stages
Fed on only sustenance wages
Marked with non-specific intel
To suck up to the rich who sell
Borgs like me, who're two a pound
Brainless,stupid,still around
Hungry,static in the poverty trap
Like sponges we soak up their C**p
We work as we dont know how to stop
On forever until we drop
Too soon our limbs reach their end
Stiff,motionless,cannot bend
Then our usefullness reaches stagnation
We're scrapped no value to our nation
So... here I await my termination
Im ready to be recycled with frustration
Because with a few new body bones
I can still outdo these new drones.....

Two little doors that came between us.
You were humming a favourite song
But our timing was so wrong.
I could hear your soft breathing
In the tiny room across the way.
I longed to tiptoe in and stay,
But lay, instead, two doors away from you.