Poetry Sunday

If you're like me, you'll usually forget to do something if you haven't written down a stern reminder to do it ... and then remembered where you wrote it down. This is why the marketing of fancy "to do lists" of various design is so lucrative. I myself have a large collection of stick-on reminders of things I need to do, such as these ...

For those who don't have classy printed reminders of what they need to do, poet Brian Bilston offers his own list in today's poem ...

To Do List

by Brian Bilston

• delay • defer • equivocate

• make some tea • procrastinate

• look at Facebook • stroke the cat

• readjust the thermostat

• dawdle • dither • hem and haw

• fill the kettle • chew my jaw

• write nine words • spin on chair

• play six games of solitaire

• observe the merry, dappled light

dancing on the page of white

• review my words • paper scrunch

• stroke the cat • break for lunch

• prioritise new tasks to shirk

• ponder changing world of work

• look at Facebook • spin on chair

• make a brew • loiter • stare

• reorganise the kitchen drawer

• attempt the crossword • eat coleslaw

• write nine words • cross six out

• stroke the cat • stoke self-doubt

• make tea • stroke cat • Facebook • stare

• coleslaw • chair-spin • solitaire

• stroke tea • make cat • chair-slaw • wallow

• write To Do list for tomorrow

With the exception of the reminders to stroke cats (of which I have none), this could be a standard list for me.

Have a good day and enjoy the rest of your weekend. More thoughts coming.

Bilbo