A: This Day Is Gone, Discovered... Poem by Margaret Alice

This Day Is Gone

Tempting WordPress.com and Wimpie calling,
the system is falling, we simply can’t email a
hundred pages today - and don’t you query
my spelling, I was only informed yesterday
“they” did away with the hyphen, this day
is gone and so is my inspiration, all that’s
left is a question mark in my head, what
on earth did I do with this day – I was
determined to go for all work and no
play, but somehow it did not work
out that way – but I am one
positive crocodile, if I fail
today, I’ll try tomorrow to
drive the car of my life
speeding down the
high-way of ideals
and dreams
galore…

Discovered WordPress Today

Sitting dutifully upright behind my enormous desk,
looking diligently at the computer screen in front
of me, staring straight ahead – at fairy pictures
found on Google to break the tedium, I’m afraid,
it is growing late and I have been playing on
Blogspot already, discovered WordPress today,
was busily occupied with an important document
Googling with utmost officiousness, then whoops,
what should jump up, but an invitation to join
WordPress free of charge, take a stroll around
our site, reads the invite, see what you like, but
not me, whoopsy, immediately I jumped in;
fished old stories and poems from my computer
started posting helter-skelter promising myself
one day I will do it properly, first learn to navigate
the site, then plan what to post with a beginning
and end and a perfect message in the middle –
but that day is still far away, right now I’m
running headlong crushing head-on and enjoying
the Dionysian joy of creation without stopping
to think or to plan!