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Some o' Me Poems and Proverbs - Vol I

Some o' Me Poems and Proverbs - Vol I

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Producer posts are our front line business, our raison d'être here on beBee, but what about our comments and responses, the worldy statements and advice that we pass on to our fellow bees, as a statement of our appreciation of the effort that they have put into our entertainment and perhaps our enlightenment?

So here is a taste (a sampler if you will) of my selected words of unworldly wisdom, some near poetic, others a folly of fuzzy frollicks, vocalised in response to some of your posts, and written in the first couple of months after the birth of beBee Producer. 

I'll test the waters and kick off with a challenge from Kevin Pashuk to produce a limerick, given the first line, to which I responded with:

There is a young Ken from Australia,
Quite fond of his paraphernalia,
He hoards all his books,
In crannies and nooks,
So he can choose words to regale ya.


Sucked in by an enticing buzz from Donna-Luisa Eversley on 'engagement" :

'Views' are good news!
'Shares' answer prayers!
But 'comments' enforce,
True engagement, of course!


A comment inspired by a post from Ali Anani :

Honesty spreads like honey, pure and sweet,
Bringing trust along,
But once the sting of lies is felt,
All trust is gone.


In response to a hilarious phalic scarf picture posted by Donna-Luisa Eversley :

When the blues come a knockin'.
Pink scarves start a shockin'!"


Inspired by a post from Sara Jacobovici :

'Motivation' is the vehicle that keeps us on our chosen route in business, 
And helps us to negotiate obstacles on the way, 
While 'experience' provides the fuel to ensure we are being propelled forward. 
Without either, we are at a crossroads of complacency, 
Merely admiring the view on an amber light.
 

Inspired by posts from Lisa 🐝 Gallagher and Sara Jacobovici :

Mottos motivate the bee,
So 'Bee Yourself' is what we'll see,
When you're seeking motivation,
And would like some pollination,
Choose a clever metaphor,
So bees come buzzing at your door.


Not sure the association for this one - perhaps in response to a post by Sara Jacobovici (but not really sure who) :

I'm glad if you're glad,
'Cause 'happy' beats 'sad'!


The hive, 'Interesting Engineering, Technology and Discoveries', was slow to start and so I helped out Lada 🏡 Prkic with the following kick-start:

Found something wow?
And need to know how?
Then this is the hive,
Where things come alive,
We'll all join forces,
And pull our resources.


I didn't note the inspirational buzz for this one :

MacBook is my tool of choice,
Safari help's me throw my voice,
Keep your Google Chrome and pc,
Apple Mac's for me and beBee!


Nor for this one, although it was obviously one of our fair damsel lady bees :

Staying up late can get things done,
Well away from everyone,
But for your youthful face to keep,
Don't forget your beauty sleep.


Pascal Derrien posted a buzz with himself as a young caped crusader.  John Lennon completed the inspiration:

You may say you're a dreamer,

But you're not the only one,

I hope some day you'll find your cape,

And the world will be so much more fun.


I responded to a comment by Louise Smith  and others on a series of food posts with : 

Fruitcake and haggis should never meet,
Or your tummy will tell you it's time to retreat.


A comical image of a cute caterpillar was posted by Sara Jacobovici, with a challenge to add a rhyme. I also Photoshopped a large boot above it:

Sorry, little fella, you were oh so cute and bright,
Sorry, little fella, you were such a pure delight,
Pity you were slow my friend, timing wasn't good,
Pity that I wasn't really looking where I should,
Sorry, little fella, deary me and golly gosh,
Sorry, little fella, now you're caterpillar squash.


Rod Loader told a magic tale guiding us towards minding our manners, and so :

Thank you for your honey tale,
The moral's plain to see,
Please and thank you cannot fail,
A must for each beBee.


I've used this one a few times as a welcome for newBees :

Like every happy bee,
I cruise around, just buzzin',
So I can guarantee,
I'll see you out there, cousin.


I was inspired by a photograph of Canadian geese, posted by Franci🐝Eugenia Hoffman :

No large gaggles of geese here in Oz,
Only crocodiles who lie in wait in golf course billabongs,
For Canadian tourists to miss the freeway. 
Either way they lose their balls.


Interaction following a magnificent and captivating video by Mamen 🐝 Delgado :

Glad I could assist you, Mamen,
Never was there doubt,
Poets are in all of us,
Just waiting to get out.


This was part of a challenge initiated by Lada 🏡 Prkic :

Any time you guys are stumped,
For words to make a start,
Call on me, I'm always pumped,
'Cause poetry's my art.


A tugboat post by Kevin Pashuk prompted this :

Good analogy, Kev; tugboats are the muscle of the harbour. 
Small and squat, they do the moving and shaking without any fuss. 
The large cruise liners may be the queen bees of the ocean, 
But the tugs are the worker bees.


Kevin Pashuk posted on the subject of sexual assault, to which I lightened the mood with :

Dads who have a boy child only have one boy in the neighbourhood to worry about; whereas 
Dads with a girl child have all the boys in the neighbourhood to worry about!


Some of you may have noticed that Kevin Pashuk and I disagree on whether Canon or Nikon is the best tool of choice :

A Canon for me, a Canon for me,
If it's no a Canon, it's nay use tae me,
The Nikons are braw, the Pentax an a',
But the cockie wee Canon's the pride o' them a'.

- with apologies to the original Scots song "A Gordon for me".

 

Inspired by a Louise Smith post on keeping things short and simple :

Remember to KISS,

Don't take the piss,

And we won't miss,

A life of bliss.


This one may have been inspired, I think, by Donna-Luisa Eversley (not sure who) on a beach pollution post :

If beaches could talk then surely they'd say,
Don't leave your litter when you go away,
Why spoil the view that others enjoy,
So take home your plastics, now there's a good boy.


This is my Ode to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) following a moving post by Kevin Pashuk :

Grief never leaves us,
She answers not our why's,
She hugs us like a shadow,
And refuses our goodbyes.
She's there lest we forget,
When our loved ones slip away,
That their spirit lives in what we do,
And everything we say.


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The Good News is - this is the end of Vol I.

The Bad News is - there's plenty more where this lot came from!!!!!

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f44c9137.jpgWhen not researching the weird or the wonderful, the comical or the cultured, the sinful or the serious, I chase my creative side, the results of which can be seen as selected photographs of my travels on my website at:

http://ken-boddie.squarespace.com

The author of the above, Ken Boddie, besides being a sometime poet and occasional writer, is an enthusiastic photographer, rarely leisure-travelling without his Canon, and loves to interact with other like-minded people with diverse interests.

Ken's three day work week (part time commitment) as a consulting engineer allows him to follow his photography interests, and to plan trips to an ever increasing list of countries and places of scenic beauty and cultural diversity.



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Comments

Fay Vietmeier

4 years ago #61

#70
Ken Boddie Once I get through a current season of challenges ... I'll be tapping the mind machine: to rhyme & producing honey Ken~ Wishing God's rich wisdom & blessings upon you, your family ... and your life. In His Light~Fay

Ken Boddie

4 years ago #60

#69
Come join the party, Fay, You’re just in time, No need for gifts, OK? Just bring a rhyme. 🤣 ... or two ... or three 🤗

Fay Vietmeier

4 years ago #59

#68
Ken Boddie Ken~ "Bee-licious" to have found your "Bee-lightful" sense of humor The mind can be a thought machine … But rhyming words … no easy thing ;~) Most of of my poems are longer but I'll share these Haiku written on my Birthday to share: 1) Savor time today Life hour-glass is rushing ;~) Grate-FULL is my heart 2) Decades slipping by Choices made cannot be changed Nor life rearranged 3) Son-Light every day Possibilities unfold Where will my heart lead?

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #58

#67
This one's purely for the photo, Lyon. I borrowed it from the owner of the house, when my wife and Indonesian family visited their old birth place in Palembang, North Sumatra. Don't even have a motor bike licence. 😟

Lyon Brave

7 years ago #57

I used to love those little motor bikes. I had a white Honda. They are a lot of fun.

Paul Walters

7 years ago #56

#65
Ah touche Mr Boddie!!!!!!

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #55

#62
yes Paul Walters ..... You can't fool a traveller, Who knows Indo slang. The trees are Sumatran, The place? - Palembang

Lisa Gallagher

7 years ago #54

#63
haha, I can't top that. You would look awful funny as me....... We are who we are......... be glad we aren't flea's.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #53

#61
I am who I am, And that's very true, The night owl has spoken, Fair Lisa Who Who, But wouldn't we both, Be oh so blue, If you were me, And I was you?

Paul Walters

7 years ago #52

Ken Boddie Ah the rhyming couplets composed on the back of that nifty motor sepeda. The vegetation in the background looks like Indonesia

Lisa Gallagher

7 years ago #51

#48
My dearest Ken, I think you're right, What I'm about to say may sound just a tad trite The roots were pulled too early in life, Memories escaped and I want to know more, so... "The more that I read, the more things I'll know. The more that I learn, the more places I'll go." Thank you Ken Boddie, "Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #50

#59
Fatima .... Seven out of ten is enough for most men, But your ten out of ten has me floating like zen!

🐝 Fatima G. Williams

7 years ago #49

Ken Boddie I can't wait for Vol - II This buzz was so much fun. I felt like I'm under the sun A mood lifter A pretty good one. 🤗I see why your Ken Your good with the pen I'll give you ten on ten You're so much fun 🤗

Mamen 🐝 Delgado

7 years ago #48

#57
You got it!!! 😂

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #47

#55
Thanks, Mamen. Happy to always be your .... tickly toes? 🤣

Devesh 🐝 Bhatt

7 years ago #46

Yes, he is good at fusion without confusion in the operatic sense :)

Mamen 🐝 Delgado

7 years ago #45

Glad we found each other in this world of ones and zeros, my dear friend from the Antipodes you will always be my ... 😉 😘

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #44

#53
Ha Ha, Devesh. Should we start negotiations, as yet, with Andrew Loyd Webber?

Devesh 🐝 Bhatt

7 years ago #43

#51
the hard works already done, More can follow, all in fun :) But sometime later I guess , if it's ok

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #42

#46
'Wisdom' in this case, Mohd, is definitely in the mind of the beholder. I'll settle for wry humour. Our comments are our way of feeding others ..... and, in some cases, providing them with an opportunity to see an alternative path. Robert Burns (the Scots Bard) captured this uniquely with his poem "To a Louse", when he penned the following: "O wad some Power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us."

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #41

#47
How about you do all the hard work, Devesh, and I'll do the peer review. 😂

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #40

#45
Thanks for sharing my buzz, Ali. Not many of us remember comments from others, or even from ourselves. My melancholic-anal character, however, has resulted in me documenting quite a lot of my own comments, including the rhyming ones. As is evident from the above, however, I don't always take care to record or remember the originating post. 🙁 Comments received from others are, of course, preserved in my posts.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #39

#44
Thanks Tejas 👍 Your OKs click, Is pretty slick.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #38

#43
I have a photographic memory - not, ha, ha! Dr Google fills in the blanks in my aging memory, Lisa. 😊 Your translation awaits you here, my bonnie lassie: http://www.cobbler.plus.com/wbc/poems/translations/554.htm Rabbie Burns was taught to us in school, back in Auld Aiberdeen. It appears to me that you are missing out on part of your Scottish heritage. I hope you can trawl through a few more of his poems on the above website. You may also remember my previous buzz on burns at this link: https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ken-boddie/listen-to-the-bard

Devesh 🐝 Bhatt

7 years ago #37

Are we writing a bebee opera?

Mohammed Abdul Jawad

7 years ago #36

Ken Boddie Sounds like 'unfolding of wisdom through brief poesy'!

Ali Anani

7 years ago #35

First thanks to Sara Jacobovici for tagging me to this post. Ken Boddie- this is wonderful buzz and I am truly honored to have been mentioned in it. I wrote once a buzz on "Nuggets of Wisdom" in which I highlighted great comments. Sara established a hive on comments and may be this hive should receive greater attention. Sharing

Lisa Gallagher

7 years ago #34

#41
haha, can you translate that for me? Mouse, oil, tasty, breast? This is what I found, let me know if the author is on track or not? http://www.shmoop.com/to-a-mouse/summary.html By the way, do you have these memorized? I'm impressed!

Sara Jacobovici

7 years ago #33

#33
Wonderful! Thanks Ken.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #32

#40
Reminds me, Lisa, of Burns' poem "To a Mouse" ( with apologies to him and to you). Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie, Thou need na start awa saw hasty, 'Cause Who Who Night Oil disnae think yer tasty.

Lisa Gallagher

7 years ago #31

#35
Who Who said the night OWL? After midnight, the OWL tends to prowl, Worries be gone and the mind is alive. The music may play so the Owl can jive. The mind is alive, Tickly toes and all!

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #30

#30
Thanks, Debasih, for your support ..... Stunned indeed, Beats shunned and in need. 😃

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #29

#29
Thanks, Roy. Hope that's an OK 👌 and not a KO 👊. 😁

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #28

#28
Thanks for your vote, Franki, and your demand, I might wait awhile, before showing my hand, A sequel too soon, may achieve reprimand.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #27

#31
Hey, Gert .... Thanks for your jest, You're one of the best, Now stay for a while, And I'll sure make you smile.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #26

#27
'Who Who Lisa' has a certain ring to it, don't you think? As for poems ..... Given enough time, We can all make a rhyme, 'Cause poems are just prose, With tickly toes!

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #25

#25
Welcome to beBee, Mario ..... and How clever you are to see, Unlike silly old me, That Boddie rhymes with beBee!

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #24

#24
Thanks, Sara ..... My 'range of emotions' ? Comes straight from the source, But a 'force to be reckoned with' ? Too kind, of course!

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #23

#23
Michele .... You may not yet know it, But you are a poet!

Gert Scholtz

7 years ago #22

Ken Boddie Engineer by training A tremendous poet too Our favorite jester's sayings That's vintage Boddie for you! Enjoyed this immensely Ken. Encore, encore!

Lisa Gallagher

7 years ago #21

#14
I opened my chromebook and what did I see? A Lyrical prose by our favorite Ken Boddie I'm not good with Rhymes but I'll give it a try Remember the Phallic scarf looks cool on a guy! I've earned a new title so it appears, The Resident night owl (Thanks Pamela \ud83d\udc1d Williams LOL) Who Who... Enjoys each and every one of YOU!

Sara Jacobovici

7 years ago #20

Noticed that Ali Anani's tag was not highlighted.

Sara Jacobovici

7 years ago #19

WOW!! Ken Boddie. You're a force to be reckoned with. (Can that inspire something? ;-)

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #18

#14
You might be right there, Pam. It may have been Lisa \ud83d\udc1d Gallagher #15 and thanks for the vote of confidence, but, as I said before, be careful what you wish for. 😄

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #17

#17
Your poem is great. A real fine rhyme, But got to go, It's my bed time. Well done, Lada!

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #16

#19
Please 'follow' my lead, then we're friends indeed. 😄

Devesh 🐝 Bhatt

7 years ago #15

This was fun, A time to pretend, I'll save my money, To earn a friend :)

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #14

#11
OK let's stop, This just ain't funny, Breaking glass, Will cost me money. 😂

Lada 🏡 Prkic

7 years ago #13

Thanks for your help, Ken! Here’s my first attempt at poetry on beBee: The hive was slow to start, But we stopped to fall apart. Now it has many members, And some of them are embers, Who keep the hive alive, And I'm sure it will thrive. It doesn't sound bad at all! 😀😀

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #12

#12
To DLE from T&T, I thank you with sincerity.

Lada 🏡 Prkic

7 years ago #11

Thanks for your help, Ken! Here's my first attempt at poetry on beBee: The hive was slow to start, But we stopped to fall apart. Now it has many members, And some of them are embers, Who keep the hive alive, And I'm sure it will thrive. It doesn't sound bad at all! 😀😀

Devesh 🐝 Bhatt

7 years ago #10

#7
I wasn't thinking literal, I was talking about a feeling, Now that we talk bare humour, Let's break the glass ceiling.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #9

#6
Let's drink to that, Dean-san!

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #8

#5
Just following Newton's first law of inspiration, Pascal. ☺️

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #7

#4
You're a poet and I know it, And your pictures are real good, Keep your Nikon clicking mitt on, And I'll try not to be rude.

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #6

#1
I do love your poem, But hope you're aware, That clothes off ain't optional, Please don't go 'bare'.

Dean Owen

7 years ago #5

Oh the phalic scarf! That was funny. Ken-sensei you are the Master of Fuzzy Frolics, Your comments are pure delight, We'd all be alcoholics, If your rhymes weren't such a delight! 😁

Pascal Derrien

7 years ago #4

Ta for the mention uncle Ken Boddie

Kevin Pashuk

7 years ago #3

Glad to have been the muse for some most excellent rhyme. Perhaps I'll post more pictures, So you can do it again sometime. (Do you see what I did there Ken?)

Ken Boddie

7 years ago #2

#2
Thanks, Michele, for your words of praise. Be careful, however, what you wish for! 😊

Devesh 🐝 Bhatt

7 years ago #1

So much inspiration, You read with care, Consuming all this honey, Makes one feel like a bear. :)

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