A RANT

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Bill
Dec 31, 2013 7:51 am
A RANT.



I’ll share what rant’s are all about

they’re there to let the venom out.

Keep poisons in and they will grow

give voice to them and they will go.



If I can have a rant I find

it clears the rancour from my mind.

It’s relaxation for the wise

and satisfaction is the prize.



So if I rant and fume it might

rid me of my gloom and spite.

As I unwind there’s some release

and in my mind I find some peace.



May all the malice that’s in there

stay in the chalice that we share.

Then when the rant is over we

can then decant and feel we’re free.



I can recall distain and hate

when I became an ostomate

and pent up animosity

that went towards my ostomy.



The rant’s I had were functional

if not a tad compunctional.

At that time I’d seethe and shout

to vent my pent-up feelings out.



A rant decants some enmity

nastiness and hostility.

But what I learned from my blue rage

was I could turn to a new page.



So there are ways rants can be good

as I always knew they could.

I must be hopeful you can see

just how useful rants can be.



B. Withers 2013





WOUNDED DOE
Jan 01, 2014 10:32 am

(I don't know what the heck happened to my nice neat poem layout :/)

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Bill
Jan 01, 2014 12:45 pm
Hello WOUNDED DOE. Thank you so much for your comment in verse, it is much appreciated. I have not yet figured out how to get the layout of rhyming verse looking right when replying to posts. It is a bit annoying when the typing looks right and then when it's posted it runs altogether like that. However, whilst it takes a bit more effort to read, it nonetheless does not detract that much from the content and meaning therein. Great stuff Best wishes Bill
WOUNDED DOE
Jan 02, 2014 9:18 am

Hi Bill, yes, I certainly thought it would show up as intended this time, due to the fact I again so carefully used my Word Doc... then did a copy and paste in here, ...and when the layout again failed and clumped together in such a smoosh... well, let's just say I shall keep trying different ideas lol.

dsmithsc91
Jan 02, 2014 8:09 pm

Loved it, Bill. Your best yet, IMO...

 

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Bill
Jan 03, 2014 6:07 am
Hello IMO. Thanks for your comment - I'm really pleased that you liked it.
Bill
Jan 03, 2014 6:07 am
WOUNDED DOE. Someone who knows about these things found a way of getting the layout right for the initial postings but that doesn't seem to work for subsequent ones. Apparently it is to do with soft and hard- returns in the text. If you want to know exactly how it's done just let me know and I'll post it.Best wishes Bill
meemo
Jan 15, 2014 4:19 am

Is that an English garden? It looks beautiful, what I can see of it. Wish the picture were bigger. Your poem was good, too. Nice and wordy.

Past Member
Jan 15, 2014 9:43 am

Hi Bill, good poem as usual. And having a good rant is refreshing. Hope you're well. I'm fine, had some ups and downs but okay. Been busy caring. Hope to be around a lot more with a poem. Take care, be around. Ambies.

Bill
Jan 15, 2014 11:37 am
Hello meemo. Thanks for your comment and support for the verse. Yes! that' part of my garden in the heart of Hertfordshire.England. Perhaps not typical of an 'English-garden' as I like to make the sapce unique to the environment in which it sits. Through the middle archway is a drawbridge that lowers over a river to access a bigger cultivated space across the river. Mostly I grow stuff to feed the wild animals and birds as so many others grow vegetables it hardly seems worth the trouble to do so myself. It's a great place to live and we've been here along timeso it's become part of us.Best wishes Bill
Bill
Jan 15, 2014 11:37 am
Hello ambies. I'm so pleased to hear from you again. I was beginning to be concerned that you might be unwell. I did post a month or so ago to see if anyone knew where you were, but there was no response - so it just left me wondering without any method of resolving it. I look forward to reading your next poem. Best wishes Bill
Past Member
Jan 15, 2014 11:54 am

Thanks, Bill, for asking about me. I'm so sorry I haven't been around. My health's been up and down, but I'm fighting the good fight. Be sure I will be posting and writing more poems. Hope everyone is in good health. TC, Ambies x