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    Things That Make Me Feel Happy
    Things That Make Me Feel Happy
    Things That Make Me Feel Happy
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    Things That Make Me Feel Happy

    By Bernard Morris

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    Trees locked in a lover's embrace; onions sizzling in a frying pan; traffic lights changing on an empty road, an abandoned baby finding its mother...and over a thousand other things that make me feel happy in this epic poem.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBernard Morris
    Release dateMay 29, 2021
    ISBN9791220809320
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      Things That Make Me Feel Happy - Bernard Morris

      THINGS THAT MAKE ME FEEL HAPPY

      a poem

      Bernard Morris

      © 2021 Bernard Morris

      First Edition

      The author asserts the moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work. All Rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrievable system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the author, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      Cover image © WildOne/pixabay

      Of a very long poem the very first line

      Gutenberg Castle in Liechtenstein

      Japanese Umbrella Pine

      Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

      Power cuts and three day weeks

      A farmer’s wife with rosy cheeks

      Scary monsters and ghoulish freaks

      The Dark Ages, the Ancient Greeks

      The deepest corners of my crazy mind

      Seeing strangers being kind

      Passing me by two lovers entwined

      Fast Forward, Stop and Rewind

      Yesterday, today, tomorrow, next week

      Laughing children giving cheek

      Taking the bins out once a week

      Standing on the bottom stair and hearing it go creak

      Opening and sniffing a brand new shiny mag

      Putting lots of make-up on and going out in drag

      Dancing and waving a rainbow-coloured flag

      Going on a hen do, going on a stag

      Finding lots of money I didn’t even lose

      Wearing baggy trousers and shiny shoes

      Going to the pub and spilling lots of booze

      Doing a crossword and getting all the clues

      A hissing sea scraping stones

      Comic capers with Vinnie Bones

      Teenage Kicks with The Undertones

      Between bass and tenor with baritones

      Lashing oceans spitting out grit

      Tuning up in the orchestra pit

      Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt

      The All-American Banana Split

      Trees locked in a lover’s embrace

      A 400 metre obstacle race

      In a desert a welcoming water place

      Lady Gaga’s Poker Face

      Rekindling romances many years later

      A falling asteroid leaving a crater

      The inventor of the calculator

      All the food in my refrigerator

      Playing bingo at Playfair and

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