
The car next door has not moved all week.
It sits on the verge, desolate, forlorn.
I put a notice on the windscreen under the wipers.
“I’m bored. Please take me for a drive’.
The lopsided moon sniggers.
The next day I hear its engine rev.
And off it goes sprightly as a mountain goat up the hill.
Who says writing doesn’t work?
When it gets home a few hours later it looks buff, glowing like my hair when you rub
argan oil into it
π Well done, John. All it needed was a little motorvation!
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Lol; you are firing on all cylinders, Hobbo π
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π Tanked up!
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Lol
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powered by words!
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…. the pen is mightier than the sword, Beth π
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I would love to find that note under the windscreen wiper of my car. π
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I just felt sorry for that car, Worms: someone had to speak up for it π
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The magic of a writer’s words. Can move cars and mountains. That argan oil is good stuff. π
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thanks Terveen; I wanted to end with argan oil, how it gives the hair a new lease of life, like taking a neglected car for a drive π
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Argan oil, love it !
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it brings out the best in hair, Eden; it’s a good metaphor for the little changes in your life that make you sparkle π
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Most of my hair has moved on. Like socks in a spinning dryer. I can still take the old truck for a spin though.
Motivation can work in mysterious ways.
Nice one, SeΓ±or. It’s the little things that make the world go ’round.
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π thank you; it sure is; gotta get out and about π
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Nice one. Sounds like you gave it a ticket to drive.
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it looks happy now; we all need to get out now and then, even stodgy cars π
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Just a sweet little note, cheers the spirits. Similar to your poems.
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that’s lovely; thanks, K: it’s good my little poems bring some joy; even the darker ones hint at redemption —
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You changed a life! Writing rocks!
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Lol. the car looks happier now π
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Youβve got the magic touch!
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all those years studying for a B.A degree came to some use after all π
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Magic! hehe. And I love those last lines
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a poem is like a joke: it needs a punchline π
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