Dec from Meg - poem about stamps

 

Here's my December envelope from new pen pal, Meg, from Australia - and the adorable koala card below. I might have to steal that heart idea for February. I'd put first names of people inside the heart. It would be a challenge to fit the longer names in.... and, I need to maintain that new leaf I have turned over where I am vigilant as choosing a stamp before I even get started.

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One of my penpals sent this - and apologies - I did not lose the poem but I lost the email...

On Searching for a Book of Stamps

check in wallet

check once more

hunt through bag

look in drawer

feel coat pockets

peer in pot

rifle desk

find them not

shake out shoes

lift up hat

inspect fridge

ask the cat

scour the shelves

peek in purse

turn out cupboards

swear & curse

go to shop

buy new stamps

put in wallet

next to stamps

Brian Bilson

I think I already posted this - but will put it here in case it's not already posted

I guess I should type it out - it's hard to read - but when I up the point size - the last line or two will not fit on one line unless I reduce the point size which would then make it hard to read..... 

Word Crunching

I

wrote

a poem

on a page

but then each line grew

to the word sum of the previous two

until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency

because as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when the poem gets all Fibonacci sequency

Brian Bilston