ANOTHER PREVIEW...

BUT not FROM NOT AS SHY AS I WAS...

Hello beasties...

This week I'm keeping it brief as it's my last full week to work on the new book before sending it off to www.lulu.com - but I wanted to post you something! The poem I'm including isn't actually from the new book, but it is very new - in fact I only wrote it last week. It's called YOU'LL DO and it's all about people who settle for second best in relationships. It's kind of a sister poem to one of my older pieces, WE WERE GOING TO BE WED (WHEN WE BOTH HIT 40).

This week I've completed a poem called I USED TO BE A TEN, which is kind of along the same lines as YOU'LL DO. It must be the impending approach to 40!! Not that I take any of this very seriously - both poems are basically very self-mocking and full of humour... I hope!

Next week it's Halloween... I don't have a new film for you this year, but I have set aside a new poem for you about a zombie who drives a taxi! That's pretty much as good as it gets, right!?

More soon,

Yeti hugs,

Paul xx

YOU'LL DO...

 

 

I was looking for someone -

With prowess and might...

With a quite winning smile -

And with jeans that were tight!

With a nice singing voice -

And fair sense of direction!

With a rugged demeanor -

And full of massive affection!

Who made me just want to melt -

When they held me so tightly...

In a bedsit in Cheam -

Legs akimbo, twice nightly.

Said I never would settle...

For a romance that's untrue...

But now seems it's better than nowt...

You will do...

Yes, you'll do!

 

I was looking for someone -

Who I never needed to ask ...

Who'd never let me escape -
Who really took me to task!

But instead I met you...

You're not quite such a winner...

No, you need feeding up -

Need to eat you some dinner!

You blow about in the breeze...

You cannot ride on a horse...

So you can't rescue me...

You need a little more sauce...

Said I never would settle...

No, I would rather get rid... 

But now we're going to be wed.

Yes, we've settled.

We did.

I was looking for someone -

With Superstar looks...

With a good sense of humour -

And quite a liking for books...

Oh, I wanted him tall...

Maybe six two or four...

With a good body, naked -

And with riches galore!

Someone there to adore me -

With large muscles, a car...

With a chauffeur and butler -

And a large mini bar...

Said I never would settle...

For routine, a kerfew...

But now I'm beginning to realise...

You will do...

Yes, you'll do!

 

 

I was looking for someone -

Who was quite out my league...
Who could keep surging on -
And wouldn't flag from fatigue!

But instead I met you...

With your wit and your manners...

With your own garden shed -

With a lathe! Your own spanners!

It's not quite how I dreamt -

Things were going to be...

But you help pay the bills -

And you're better looking than me.

Said I never would settle...

For someone boring, yet plucky...

Now I have...

But you'll do...

I think I probably got lucky!

YOU'LL DO will appear in Paul's first collection of 2014. This post is Copyright Paul Chandler 2013.