People!

(Picture Credit - How To Date - Nagging)

Don’t cut all your food up before you eat it:

Slice as you go.

And don’t mix up your curry and rice first:

Take some curry, add some rice…

“But I can eat it all at once this way”.

Cut your box hedge only once or twice per year.

“That will let it grow six foot high instead of four though”.

Do all your shopping at once.

Plan ahead so you don’t have to nip out for things.

“Hate shopping. Rather buy as and when.”

Put your Geraniums in pots over winter.

“I’ll need hell of a lot of pots!

Will break the roots

Digging them out

Of that claggy soil.”

Your Artex could have Asbestos in it:

That could be dangerous.

“I’m not about to drill into it

And breathe in the dust am I?”

What you don’t know when your car MOT and tax are due?

“My garage knows and they look after me.

But I checked them on the internet now.

The garage is right.”

You didn’t know you’d paid off your mortgage

And you claimed for a moat?

“I’m a politician”.

Why do you put all that rubbish on Facebook?

“Because my friends Love my posts and say so.”

You are supposed to…

You shouldn’t…

You should…

You mustn’t…

You Must!

"People!"

Paul Butters

© PB 26\3\2018.

Tiny Bug

(Picture Credit - Scutelloridae Bug by Wiki)

See the grandeur of our universe:

Flocks of far-flung galaxies,

Shrouded by clouds of swirling gas.

A vastness too great to comprehend,

Filled with solar systems

That defy imagination.

Yet none of this is as wondrous

As a tiny bug:

A “lickle life form”

That can look around

And say to itself

(In a language of its own):

I am here.

This is my world.

No idea what is beyond

What I can sense,

But I know I’m here.

And even the greatest galaxy

Cannot do that.

Paul Butters

© PB 19\3\2018.

Confidence

(Picture Credit- Fearless Soul on YouTube)

Confidence is key

In oh so many ways

Much more than with

The things you do.

Walk tall, stand still,

Be open and direct.

Show them all

That you are completely

Unafraid.

Don’t fidget, look around or gabble on.

Don’t show your anxious self.

Speak slowly, with pause

And show you are assured and calm.

For confidence is like a virus,

Spreading out throughout the room,

Infecting all

With that assertion

That You

Are Number One.

If only I myself was brought up this way,

Who knows what I’d have done?

But better late than never,

As they say.

Let’s start,

By being tall,

And cutting out

That slouch.

But remember,

Never compare:

Treat everyone as equal,

Never be arrogant:

Be gently assertive.

Paul Butters

© PB 9\3\2018.