https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/pernesegirl1/I hope you enjoy my (hopefully)comic verse. These have been written over many years, except for the 'Granny' works which are new. I retain registered copyright on all my work. Geraldine hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/pernesegirl1/593916Listen - come and harken As shades and shadows darken. Do you hear the eerie noise? Can you sense the ghostly ploys? I don't like it - how it frightens me The rattling chains l almost see! Go on them laugh at my distress. My imagination runs riot l confess. I can't get used to nightly moans...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/pernesegirl1/590284I thought l’d learn to salsa, and to tango too Then l could go out clubbing, just like the young girls do! ‘Cos all this saucy dancing seems to be the rage And anyone can do it – even at my age! If l could master sexy moves and get a skimpy dress I could hit those night clubs and all the boys...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/pernesegirl1/589851Strike the light and ease my pain! Or is my being all in vain? I know you want what l can give, I know without me you can't live. No matter how hard you may try You'll be back for me by and by. Don't fight me, don't deny your need. Give fire to my soul - don't bleed! I sit here watching you grow...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/pernesegirl1/589274There was a girl named Riding Hood, to the woods she skipped one day. She did not know the big bad wolf too felt inclined to play! He spied her as she tarried and thought ‘l’ll have some fun’, And sneaked right up beside her cooing “hello pretty one” She gazed at him in wonder, she thought ‘what...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/pernesegirl1/586342I got into the Christmas spirit way back in July, And thought l could be a Granny Santa - if l could learn to fly. So l took a trip to Lapland to see the man in red. He welcomed me with open arms – and this is what he said! “ I’m sure that we could find a use for a Granny just like you! But we...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/pernesegirl1/585810I am a little staff nurse, all starched and white and pure. If you’ve a nasty sickness then l’m the one who’ll cure. I’ve a lovely bedside manner, so sweet and so serene. From the calm that wafts behind me you can tell where l have been. I’ll smooth your rumpled pillows, cool your fevered brow....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/pernesegirl1/585484Do l thrill you as you lay with me? Do l make things as they ought to be? Can you feel me pulsate as we touch? Am l just enough, or perhaps too much. Shall l be with you tomorrow night? Do you think l could - do you think l might? Would you care to stay with me forever? Warming you, soothing you,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/pernesegirl1/585101Bright and polished, fresh and new Is how l was 'til l met you! You think to use me as you will. Used, abused, to you l'm nil. You want me now - l hear your call. Now you want to give your all!! I'm worn and weary, tired and sad. Is life to always be this bad? Grabbed and shoved, pushed and...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/pernesegirl1/584700I was a little primrose swaying in the breeze. Happy in your garden and perfectly at ease. You watered and you tended me and l began to thrive, I knew that from my beauty great pleasure you'd derive. Growing up and blossoming in your tender care I didn't think of anything as long as you were...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/pernesegirl1/584527Must you always start complaining the moment l appear. It hurts deep in my heart to know that you don't want me near. Just once l'd like to feel loved - and wanted too. So tell me, won't you tell me, what is it l must do! Should l slip in soft and gentle and you drift in a dream? Or ripple all...