13 June 2008

Is she the Original 'Party Pooper'?

Thank you to my favourite reader and guest blogger, Lady of the Lake....and yes, I do know *Daniece* and her bad habit! I think I'm still giggling thinking of the stories associated with potty dreams and her "chocolate surprise" leaving brother!


For “Friday’s Tree”, I’d like to write in form of simple rhyme.
The “Chosen One” is she, who lives and grows in modern time.

I’ll call her *Daniece* - not her name – her position.
(If you guess who it is, it’s mere supposition.)

She’s a gentle, sweet girl with a smile in her eyes.
And she doesn’t annoy us with “wherefores” and “whys”.

But, the habit of hers which I want to inscribe,
Is the topic, in general, of this diatribe.

For *Daniece* is a Dreamer of great magnitude,
But the place of her day-dreams is often quite rude !

She sits on the Toilet ! – (Oh yes, it is true)
And forgets all the chores which she still has to do.

And, sitting, she sails to a Land of her making;
While, outside, her brother, the door he is shaking !

But, *Daniece* is now “time-travelling”, and though it sounds droll,
Her vessel of choice is a white porcelain bowl !

When *Daniece* was a youngster, she’d sit in a stall,
And she’d sing and she’d “chit-chat” with no one at all.

(This routine of hers which became quite an issue,
Was also the cause of a world-shortage of tissue ! )

And once, with her family, while on the King’s highway;
*Daniece* had to stop for a break on the byway.

She went into the rest room and claimed up her space,
And a reverie descended on her in this place.

*Daniece* was so tardy, that everyone forgot her,
And the parents drove off without their fair daughter !

So, off they all went down the long, dusty road,
Leaving *Daniece* safely on the commode !

All of a sudden, someone remembered; “*Daniece*”!
They all cried aloud in a big burst of release!

And so it continues, after some fifteen years.
If *Daniece* is around and you’ve been drinking beers;

Don’t beat on the door, and likewise, don’t shake it.
Just go outside, if the pain you can’t take it.

For *Daniece* will be there with her lullaby dreams;
And, time passes her by as she sits there and schemes.

It’s her space, it’s her place; it’s the World of *Daniece*;
And the least we can do - is to give her some peace !
signed, the willow for the Lady of the Lake

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