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The Ostrich

by The Walrus 

Posted: 30 September 2003
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Harangue me ludicrously
With logical arguments.

Foretell an unpalatable future
A future, always uncast.

Predict a barbed path
Driven by divisive demons.

Tell me I will sever
A blissful bond,
So strong.

Deride me
For wallowing
In enchanted waters.

Cast my heart’s light
Into the bottomless black pit.

Dare me to dream
The implausible.

To all this and more
You have my ear.

But, with respect
I laugh in the face of impossibility
The oyster is my world
Rules are made to be broken.






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Fearless at 07:01 on 01 October 2003  Report this post
'Cast my heart’s light
Into the bottomless black pit.'

Very strong.

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The Walrus at 08:28 on 01 October 2003  Report this post
Err... yes it is.

The Walrus, with no plans to give up the day job.
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Fearless at 08:33 on 01 October 2003  Report this post
Maybe you could give it up, maybe you could...

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The Walrus at 09:04 on 01 October 2003  Report this post
One can't win the lottery, if one doesn't buy the tickets.

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Fearless at 09:06 on 01 October 2003  Report this post
You're writing your own tickets, in case you hadn't noticed that you had written lots of lovely poems and had posted them on a writers website.

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The Walrus at 09:12 on 01 October 2003  Report this post
Oh, that.... err yes, temporary aberration.

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Fearless at 09:14 on 01 October 2003  Report this post
Temporary?
Permanent methinks
Aberration?
Future truth I see
Nonsensical ostrich!
For while you have lifted your head
The sand in your eyes distorts
Your perception of reality
Wake up!
And realise your gift of poetry

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The Walrus at 10:38 on 01 October 2003  Report this post
You are too kind.

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Bobo at 10:40 on 01 October 2003  Report this post
Carry on laughing in the face of impossibility Walrus and dreaming the implausible... so few dare to tread that path, but the ones that do live life most truly and fully.

Thanks for such an uplifting defiant piece.

A great start to my day!

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The Walrus at 10:56 on 01 October 2003  Report this post
Glad the my paltry offering could cast a ray of sunshine into someone's day.

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Fearless at 14:09 on 03 October 2003  Report this post
Maybe the intended reader of the poem has got the message.

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