You inherit another day.
So what are you going to do with it?
Melancholize ?
Rhapsodize ?
What?
Sift through it for cigarette butts?
Scrambled messages on billboards?
What you gunna do?
Rehearse it like a song you’re going to record?
Look it straight in the eye?
Shoulder your way through it like an NRL star?
Squeeze the juice right out of it?
Hitch a ride on it?
Or lean against it like a lamp post and watch it amble by?
You inherit another day.
So what you gunna do?
John Malone 
So good John! The challenge to ‘rise’ is just perfect to start the day with.
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write it in less than five minutes so I knew it was honest and meaningful but how much to others I wasn’t sure but then I said, what the heck! I’m going to run with it just as I experienced it :);
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Interesting how you can write something ‘off the cuff’ which is seems iffy to you, then a what-the-heck publish moment, resulting in ‘so good John’ comments….
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let’s face it, Don: we’ll never understand the process, how it works: each poem is a ‘gift’ unearned, gratefully received 🙂
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Haha, good for you! Glad you did.
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I can see little blemishes in the poem now — but it’s too late — the horse has bolted 🙂
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I can absolutely relate to that. Sometimes I go back and fix something up, but usually only if my eye is twitching 😉 I say leave it be and let it speak the truth of how you felt when you wrote it.
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I like that very much; my eye isn’t twitching so I will let it be 🙂
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Secrets, you took the words out of my mouth….that is so good John…everything about it
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John, you gotta run with, go with it and you did. You “inherited the day”. 💙
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Yep Elle, he gunna, he gotta…and he didda. Well done John…Or diddy, or diddy not?…..Or diddy just lean onna lamp post and watch the girls go by? Or diddy go looking for more embracing statues? Dunno Elle….
Must say John I liked the inclusion of Rhapsodize and Melancholize…..
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well thanks, Don; they both came to me in the first minute but I said, hang on! ‘Melancholize’ isn’t even a word but did that stop Shakespeare ???
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https://www.wordnik.com/words/melancholize
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… and all the time I thought I was coining a new word 😦
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😟
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You are much like me John for ‘new’ words. Melancholize is logical to me. I had to Google it to and discovered it’s reached the Mirriam-Webster dictionary. Yes Shakespeare was a great creator of words. We have lost so many of his. Surprisingly many in use today were invented by him, of which you will no doubt be aware of…….
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that is a surprise: that ‘melancholize; is a word; thanks 🙂
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Don’t think it would be in the ‘standard’ dictionaries but in those ‘new age’ ones to cater for ‘new age’ writers like us…..
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😂 I googled it also!!
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Those were interesting variations on those two words, Don.
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Diddy not in your dictionary Elle? …… It’s in mine……maybe you need the latest version for the ‘new age’ ?……here’s an idea….maybe I could self-publish mine – ‘Poet Don’s Dictionary For New Age Poets’. Create a niche market – gather round folks, no bees birds and flutterbys here…the mind boggles Elle….
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Lol I know P Diddy
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Diddy P ?
Diddy not?
Looks like I’m writing
Tommy rot
again……
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😝
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I went out the back, late afternoon, for a few minutes meditation and the line came to me about ‘inheriting the day’ then some other lines came so i dashed inside got my notebook and slammed it down in five! bloody amazing: wasn’t sure it it was nonsense masquerading as meaning but it felt right 🙂
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‘let’s face it, Don: we’ll never understand the process, how it works’
So true John. It amazes me how things just ‘happen’ out of the blue some times.
Do I publish do I not?
Is this just plain tommy rot?
What the heck what people say
I will publish anyway
Hits PUBLISH…..
This is so good Don!…..
What?……
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ROFL ; perfect, Don 🙂
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i love made up words, sometimes they fit much better than the real things, and they work here. looks like you fully inherited the day – i made the most of it by walking downtown with a couple of grandies and getting ice cream and special rocks, then walked through the park where i came upon mother goose, a wonderful day. you’ll meet her tomorrow in my blog
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🙂 look forward to it, Beth; they’re older now and interstate but I enjoyed my years with the grandies when they were younger: precious times 🙂
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i especially love the ordinary things, like deciding to go for a walk to get ice cream
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Diddy dooit?
Diddy not?
Wot’s he onna
Bout wot? wot?
Maybe should self-publish my own dic of ‘new age’ words Beth for poets who want to break the mould of boring tradition…John’s lined up already……
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Great idea
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Another gold star for you, John. ‘Melancholize’ is perfect. I imagine myself leaning against the lamp post, all relaxed and cool, debonair, twirling a toothpick between my lips… but most times I am on the run, here, there, and everywhere, both literally and figuratively. Great stuff, my friend!
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🙂 thanks Ed; I feel I may have kicked a goal with this one 🙂
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What a call to arms! Love it!
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thanks; the title popped into my head from I don’t know where — and I had a poem 🙂
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Hi John, I like the sentiment behind this poem. It’s a playful encouragement to move forward without goading, without judgment. Nice. 😀
eden
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I like what you say, Eden: it is so easy to slip into sermonizing mode —
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It’s funny (or not) how each day takes its own shape. Days are like snowflakes — no two are exactly the same.
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beautifully said, Neil , and thank you 🙂
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I squandered my earthly inheritance
on a bag of magic beens, but at least
I got to play with the giants in a realm
that has never been seen 😎💭
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that would have fit quite magnificently in my recent post ‘So Where Are You?’ but it inhabits this one quite nicely too 🙂
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I had been meaning to leave
this comment, but I felt it a
bit too esoteric. Plus it has
absolutely no meaning ;
🔘 As a singular
point of conciousness
I fell through a hole
in the fabric
of this temporal universe
after taking a hungry bite
like a tiger of the night
into the jugular of existence
But every singular rascal
is like a setting sun 🌞
(apologies to Neil Young 😎)
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Touché John
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Just getting up here in Scotland, and no better advice John!
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you can’t go wrong, Matthew, treating each day as an inheritance; hope it’s warming up there in Scotland 🙂
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A lovely take on an old theme here John. Well done.🙂
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thanks Hobbo; appreciate that 🙂
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Every new day, a day in paradise must be my age and my deteriorating eyesight? Not a minute to waste or I waste the whole day doing just nothing, such a luxury. Had I know I would have been not so panicky to get there!
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I’m glad this post has had a positive effect on you, Michael. It’s a kick-in-the-butt for me too 🙂
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Carpe Diem! Excellent poem. Love the word “gunna”
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thanks Ulle; ‘gunna’ is very Aussie,; it’s a strange language; no one ever really masters it 🙂
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tell me about it!
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we love our Aussie English; just commented on a post by Ulle about an abandoned tyre , only he spelt it ‘tire’ which doesn’t differentiate it, except by context, from the verb ‘to weary’ —
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Oh, sometimes the lamp post days shine brightest. You can take in so much leaning on one of those. Sometimes I box the day, I treat the day like a rosary, and pray to make it through. Beautiful poem, John.
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thanks, Karen: some beautiful images there 🙂 the rosary one is exquisite and sad: yes, I’ve had days like that too —
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I love this! Clever rhymes and clever lines. Another vote for melancholize as an excellent word choice! This poem almost reads like a song to me.
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thanks for that: I would love to write a song some day; I’ve tried before: I used to scoff and say, anyone can write a song, but, do you know, it’s bloody hard !
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Wow. This is a mental upgrade for me. It really encourages and challenges me to do be proactive in the day I’ve inherited.
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well thank you; it was written mainly as a memo to me but if it works for you too that’s great 🙂
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super motivating !! thanks for sharing!
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glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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The poem is full of motivation and positivity. Thanks for sharing John.
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well, thank you for commenting; good to hear your ‘voice’ 🙂
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Sheesh John…almost fell asleep getting to the bottom of this thread…..really tired me….David’s grabbing the jugular had me troubling to get past it…glad he knows what he’s talking about
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Your post made me think, what am I gonna do with my day. I think it is thought provoking and I really wanted someone to ask me these. Lovely post and lovely reminder 👌👌
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thanks; I need to read it now and then myself 🙂
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