Lungs. (A personal view.)

Although our lungs are part of us

We must remember this

They live quite separate lives down there

A fact we often miss.

They can be really poorly

Whilst the rest of us is well

And seemingly, you must admit

That folk can rarely tell

Now this has some advantages

Which some find hard to see

Cos those darn lungs are happier

If you just let them be.

Just send them down the medicines

That you've been told they need

Then leave them to get on with it

Whilst on those meds they feed

But if you keep on messing with them

By worrying and getting up tight

Those darn old lungs as sure as hell

Will give you such a fright

So try to keep laid-back and calm

And let them do their job

They'll try to do their best for you

So you are not so SOB

[CELAT06]

Brilliant as usual and oh so true, I hope everyone is ok on this gloomy, miserable morning. X

[Hidden in reply to CELAT06]

Wild isn't it! Just made it back home before it started it seems. Keep safe everyone, big storms ahead.🤔

[CELAT06 in reply to Hidden]

Glad you’re home again, I think

that’s going to be the best place to be today. X

[Kittykat2]

Another good one Don 💕X

Got rain here but no wind as yet sun trying to get out a little too x

[sassy59]

Brilliant! Glad you’re home safe and well. Xxxxx

[SquirrelsHolt]

Morning Mr.D.,😀😛😌💞YES, it's another one of your "Classics" !!👏🌈🌞🚐✔. Love it,it is so good 'coz everything you say is true! You may well be on a roll here so I'm looking forward to your next post.

[Pantani]

Your odes never cease to astound me and my wife. Once again you helped start our day with a smile. Glad to hear you got home before the bad weathercsetvin. We drove back yesterday and managed to stay ahead of the worst of the weather.

[Hacienda]

Another Gem, Thank you Don. xxxx

[Izb1]

How do you do it Don, cant imagine how you think these things up, its a great talent, keep cheering us up. The weather is atrocious this morning, I'll bet your glad to be home. My best friend lives in Llandudno and I thought of you driving through there. I was due to go up but think I will give it a miss until this rain clears x

[Hidden]

Llandudno must be a lovely place to live, but it's always so very busy. Just driving though can take forever which is why I decided to bypass it this time. I shall be back to picnic on the Great Orme.

A link for Skis visitllandudno.org.uk/thing...

[HungryHufflepuff]

Thanks for another great rhyme on this stew and dumplings kind of day (and yes that is what I'm eating right now) My sheep are glad to still have their winter coat on. 🐑

[skischool in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

I hope it's not lamb stew or hotpot xx

[HungryHufflepuff in reply to skischool]

🤨

It most certainly is not, and I won’t tell my sheep you said that 🤭

[Alice70]

Great poems Don ,I dont reply to them all ,but I love reading them all

[Hidden in reply to Alice70]

Thank you Alice, I appreciate that 😀x

[HungryHufflepuff]

I think a lot of bits of me live completely separate lives. I don’t know what they get up to half the time, they certainly don’t keep me informed. They do their own thing. The worst is my stomach which I’m sure doesn’t like me and can be quite spiteful, either making great gurgling noises when I’m right next to someone, or waking me up in the middle of the night making thumps and rumbles. 🌩⛈🌨

[Hidden in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

😂 My heart bleeds for you! 😂

[skischool in reply to Hidden]

try seeing a cardiologist that doesn't seem normal? x

[Hidden in reply to skischool]

Just shows I have one 🙄x

[JANET127]

Excellent Mr Don! Yes, I too think that if we worry over our lungs...a lot..its not good! EXCEPT IN THE WINTER! Then I panic! LOL Janet127

[johnboy_10]

Well said Don, if you give them hell for leather they'll give you leather for hell.

[Arch74]

Great poems, they make me smile.

[Shirleyj]

Great advice Don x 😀

[SparkySW123]

What a talent you have, Don. Thanks for that. What hit home for me were the wise words to stay 'laid back and calm'. So true! xx

[watergazer]

Another great poem. Glad your back safe and sound. A better day today 🤞the sun is out at the mo x

[illawarra]

Love that! Thank you

[ScouseTaffy]

Oh Mr Rhymer,

What magic there is inside your head and heart! 😁

[FlossyF]

That is wonderful Don. Liz x

[joyce74]

Excellent as always Don

[majji]

Not feeling so good today Cap'n but just put my proofreaders hat on and am a tad confused by 'And seemly', - just wondered if you intended it to read 'seemingly'? Also SOB has always meant 'son of a ***** to me having lived in the US for so long - I find it hard to believe that is what you actually meant so could you translate that one just for me please?

[Hidden in reply to majji]

I'm sorry you are not feeling so good Margaret but notice that it hasn't affected your proofreading skills. Yes I did mean 'seemingly' and I have just popped back to amend it, thank you. SOB here on BLF is usually short for 'short of breath'. I hope you feel better tomorrow, get yourself an early night, that will help. 😉

[majji in reply to Hidden]

Glad to have been of some assistance Cap'n and thank you for enlightening me! I was pretty sure you had not meant what I initially thought you meant - you are such a gentleman, I thought there had to be another meaning of which of I was unaware

[HungryHufflepuff in reply to majji]

I’m really sorry to know you’re not feeling so good. I hope tomorrow will be a better day for you.

[skischool in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

Me to HH.sleep well majji and wake up refreshed.you need your energies to highlight our grammatical failings or we shall get even worser x

[majji in reply to skischool]

I imagine that you will accomplish that with or without my assistance SirSki Did you intend to leave off an 'o'?

[skischool in reply to majji]

I didn't even think the word worser existed and i thought i had made it up and i am terribly disappointed to find it exists in the collins dictionary so i am not even an original thinker

We shall from now on use the Irish version o'worser to describe something not so good. xx

[majji in reply to skischool]

It exists in several more . . . dictionaries that is . . .

[majji in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

Thank you HH - I am sure it will be (today that is)

[Sharp5Flat13]

Fabulous, Don! Are you a musician as well?

[Hidden in reply to Sharp5Flat13]

No, I learnt to read music and played the theatre organ back in the 1990s and infact owned a Gulbransen Palace Theatre Organ. But arthritis in my hands put an end to that unfortunately. 😕

[majji in reply to Hidden]

You are a man of so many talents Cap'n

[Hidden in reply to majji]

Just one, ‘gift of the gab’. 😅

[majji in reply to Hidden]

I would have to insist upon 'multiple' Cap'n . . .

[wooo]

Loving this post , keep them warm

Keep them safe

They will do there own thing no matter what

Don't stress it upsets them

Live your life to the full

The Lungs feel your emotions

Love them & they will look after you best they can

[paulc20-]

Very good Don

[Midsummerprism]

Reading this is the only thing that made me smile today. Thank you.