My Holidays Limerick
A cold has me stuffed in the sack
How I sniffle, I sneeze and I hack
The laptop is dusty
Inspiration is fusty
Yet, it feels mighty grand to be back
Oh, the holiday season was fun
Though I’m gleeful the chaos is done
Bye family and friends
Eating fudge had to end
Or we’d all end up weighing a ton
Saint Nick wanted cookies this year
And carrots to feed his reindeer
But Grampy was fast
The treats didn’t last
No cookies for Santa, I fear
You might get a laugh or a shock
To hear we got mittens and socks
A boy named Tornado
Got Legos and Play-Dough
All wrapped in a colorful box
New Years was dreadfully lame
No fireworks bursting in flame
No bubbly or wine
I was snoring by nine
All sickly and achy and tame
The blog suffered scarcely a peek
Between games of hide-and-go-seek
I was tempted to read
But the days passed with speed
And they rapidly turned to weeks!
No, I didn’t prep one single post
of which I can merrily boast
I finished draft two
A feat that will do
Now to blogging or my butt is toast
To my pals in the wide blogosphere
I wish you world peace and good cheer
The blessings of health
In friendship great wealth
And a bountiful, happy new year
This poem was inspired by cough medicine that made me a little loopy. I pre-scheduled it for JUNE and wondered why it didn’t post this morning.
I have a ton of catching up to do! It’s going to take me a bit, but I’ll be over to say “hi” soon. 🙂
The Real Tornado Boy
Myths of the Mirror 
A boy who dismembered a spider
Thought a tigress so tame he could ride her.
You can guess his surprise
When she nibbled his thighs
And he ended up legless inside her.
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Ha ha ha. That’s fantastic and poetic justice too! I have a post somewhere with animal limericks where this would fit in perfectly. Wonderful job. 😀
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I have no way to get to your blog as the link doesn’t work. I think the links in your gravatar need to be updated. 😀
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I have absolutely no idea how to do that and I would greatly appreciate any advice you can give to either get rid of my gravatar altogether or to get it to work properly. Thanks.
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I’m actually writing a post about this stuff. Try this first, then reply to me, and I’ll try to get to your place again. 😀
Go to WP Admin – Users – My Profile. At the bottom of the page, you can add/update your website address. And very important – at the top of the page, click on the tiny link that says, “edit your profile at gravatar.com.” Be sure that your correct website address is listed.
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Thank you so much for your help. I don’t know whether I have fixed the problem. You help help me out by trying to get on my ownshadow blog and letting me know.
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the link that comes up is uapsnu.wordpress.com and it shows up as a deleted site. What is your blog URL?
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I deleted a site with the name uapsnu before messing around with the gravatar for another site which has the name ownshadow and has the address as ownshadowownshadow.wordpress.com which is the only one still actually existing on my account.
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The old address is still coming up in WP Reader, but you fixed your email notification! So I was able to get to your site! Thanks for the follow and I’m glad we got part of it working for you. I’ll be over to read and follow shortly 😀
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Just spotted your earlier comment. How big a problem is the WP Reader issue? Do you know how I can fix it?
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I tried to google the answer, and the only thing that I can think of is to go through your WP Settings and make sure that all references to your website address are correct. If it all looks correct, I’ve found that WP Support is very helpful. It would help to have this corrected – more people will find you, and your poetry is worth the effort.
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can you see the poems on my ownshadow blog?
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Sure can 😀
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I’m pretty sure I figured out how to fix the notification in Reader, Mark.
From there, click on Account Settings. Make sure your web address there is correct. This is the one that people see in comments so I’m thinking that it will fix the one in Reader. I hope this works!!
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Thank you for your continued support. I can’t find any ‘Reader Settings’. I do think that in different places of my account I may have seen the site name of OwnShadow rendered in all lower case letters; if so, does this disparity matter? For my OwnShadow site I changed the publicly displayed name back to uapsnu, which is my user name.
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No, that doesn’t seem to help either – So I’ll stick to OwnShadow!
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I can find you through my email notifications at least. This is a common problem that lots of bloggers have. I’m on a mission now to find the answer. 🙂
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Thank you!
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It’s nice to have chanced on your site
And to see how amazing you write.
Time has flown, I didn’t know.
Hit the hay I must go,
Leaving you with my thanks and good night.
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May sweet dreams flow through your head
As you drift through the night in your bed
And morning’s bright sun
Bring you plenty of fun
To enrich the day’s path you will tread.
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Sweet dreams indeed. Thank you for the blessing, Diana.
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I was coughing right along with you all over the festive season, Diana. Hope you’re feeling better now – and happy new year!
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I’m getting there, Tara. These chest colds tend to hang on a month or so for me. Hope you’re feeling better and ready for the new year 😀
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Nice blog, thank you
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Thanks so much for visiting and reading. Have a wonderful day. 🙂
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A limerick! Imagine my thrill!
(Though I’m sorry to learn you were ill.)
How delightfully grand—
Even codeine in hand—
To have managed such skillfulness still!
(And to all who might claim that a buzz
Can’t make art become more than it was,
You’ll be forced to concede—
(What more proof do you need?)—
Because D. Wallace Peach says it does.)
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Ah ha ha. Nice Erik! I love limericks. They’re like word puzzles. Sadly I’m still sicky and icky, but getting there, slowly. Thanks for stopping by!
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So sorry you got sick 😦 I hope all the viruses stay in 2016 and you have a healthy and happy New Year. Love the picture with your Tornado Boy. It looks like he calms down when sitting in your lap, but a closer look reveals that he is up to something 🙂
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Thanks, Inese. It was late and we were watching the old Boris Karloff version of the grinch. He’s a cuddler when I finally wear him out! Happy New Year to you, my friend. ❤
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Thank you! ❤
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