it’s late, and I’ve been out all day.
I’m tired, but I still have a little energy
and if you required it I would willingly
push my body into physical activity –
walk through the night to keep you company,
paint your kitchen,
or saw timber to build shelves –
but my brain is feeling lazy
all evening it has been sleeping fitfully.
no amount of prodding and poking
will induce it to think up a poem
inspired by the letter L
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I also felt so lazy this past couple of days, it’s so humid here in my place. Hopefully it would rain soon. Nice take!
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Thank you ! I live in the UK, and it’s raining here, so I can’t blame the weather… 🙂
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You’re welcome! Well, sometimes the weather affects our mood. If it’s raining here in the Philippines, I would get cozy in bed, holding my tablet and read blogs I follow. At least it’s not hot there in your place.
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Funny you should say that – I live in a block of nearly forty flats, and most of the tenants like to have there heating (and the heating in the hallways) on full all the time. I don’t use my heating at all, because I’m so hot – even in winter – that I have to keep the windows open all all the time, day and night. I think i shut them for a couple of hours about six times when the weather reached its coldest, but then I got too hot again…
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Is that so? I live in a tropical country and as I observe it’s getting hotter every passing years most probably due to global warming. Good thing you’re body is warm in cold weathers, I wish mine’s cold.
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England is getting less extreme – the seasons are becoming more similar. It’s almost as if we don’t have either summer or winter any more. It’s very worrying.
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I’m afraid we are living in the ends of times.
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I started hearing people say that in the early 1960’s, and I refused to believe it – I thought we would have the sense to turn things around, but we didn’t. Instead we accelerated the damage, and now I think you may be right. It’s terrible, because most of the planets species are not to blame, but they’re suffering too.
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You are right. The symptoms are evident but it seems more and more people are still ignoring it. Let’s just hope that others would not only come to their senses but to take action as well.
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We all need to take responsible action, but it’s world governments and major industries that are most at fault.
I try to avoid politics on here, but I find it impossible! 🙂
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Unfortunately, you are correct. The least thing that we could do is help with simple things like stop burning plastics, plant some trees, garbage segregation, etc. Small as it is, it will have a positive impact in the end. Cheers!
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😊
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For an uninspired letter L, you did pretty well 🙂
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Thank you Raili. I wish I hadn’t started on this challenge – it seems to have stopped the ideas from flowing, although I’m quite happy with M, which I’m about to post…
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Do you have to continue if it’s not resonating with you ?
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No, it’s up to me, but I don’t like giving up halfway through – I don’t know whether that’s a quality or a fault…
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Yeah, I thought that was the case. I would struggle with doing that too. Once committed and all that …can be a bit of a curse at times 😦
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I spy with my little eye something beginning with N – except that I don’t…
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Look at that! The girl was writing in her sleep! Wow!!!
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I had to bully my brain just to get it to wake up enough to get those few lines out… 🙂
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Perhaps you should let your body sleep and give your wide awake brain a pen and see what happens. You’d probably either love it, or it’s scare the crap out of you! 🙂
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LOL! The only reason I struggle to keep my body awake is so that my brain can keep working, and right now I’m exhausted. I don’t often say this, (I’ve probabLy never said it) but I think I’ve overdone it these past three weeks.
Now I know why people have TVs…
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