Thursday, 12 August 2010

Round The Bend


I once had a screw thread
but rust saw to that -
now no plumber can shift
these pipes linked to my tap.

The copper green hue
adds a certain allure,
but there's holes in disguise
right above it, I'm sure.

I'm bendy and flakey
and well past my prime
and due for the scrap heap -
it looks like it's time!


Photo prompt by Magpie Tales

32 comments:

  1. You could be talking about me.

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  2. Jinksy this is so charming and fun...love all the flow and rhyme! And like Nessa, you could be talking about me as well! :-)

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  3. I was thinking of the line from Danny Boy as I read this. You know, 'the pipes, the pipes are calling..'

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  4. Sounds like my medical reports! Great fun but be sure to keep taking the pills! ha ha!

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  5. That really does look ancient! Hope my *pipes* are in better condition. Ha.
    Maggie X

    Nuts in May

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  6. Yes! I love the use of 'well past my prime' in this context - thinking of how pumps always had to be primed!

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  7. another silly who dashed of a magpie. I like it and in spite of the daft idea of doing something on order it's fun. well sort of.

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  8. "The copper green hue," love it. Boy everyone is jumping on this one fast. I have to give it a thought. Great job.
    QMM

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  9. You are in much better form than those pipes my friend.......:-) Hugs

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  10. You should have done the humane thing and put those pipes out of their misery long before now, I think.

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  11. jinksy - so clever and yes as your first comment above suggests - well this could be talking about me - in a few years mind you! steven

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  12. I sort of want to explore the plumbing in my house and see what I come up with :-). As always, I LOVE your stuff!

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  13. I'm still trying to figure out what my prime might be, and now have to worry about being passed it? Those pipes look too close to home.

    Elizabeth

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  14. Oh no, not the scrap heap. There is more life left in there I can tell.

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  15. I enjoyed reading this, love the words 'copper green hue'.

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  16. wow... the poem just flowed very nicely..

    but surely there's still life, no scrapheap...

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  17. On form as usual, Jinksy! Hey . . . my Google sidebar has picked up all this plumbing stuff and is telling me that PLUMBERS CAN EARN OVER £50,000 per annum!
    Where's me blowtorch? I may be gone for some time . . . .

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  18. Love the copper green colour. It would be great for a summer dress. Nice poem Jinksy.

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  19. Due for the scrap heap???! Enjoyable poem.

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  20. Scrap heap??? Never, you have much more to share with us.

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  21. Anyone who writes like that is a very long way away from the scrap heap.

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  22. I am sure the pipes linked to your tap are clear and free, no scrap heap for you! We won't letcha!

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  23. Oh no, not you..ready for scrap heap..don't listen to that one!! Terrific, girl..

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  24. bendy and flaky--where I come from that is called character and eccentricity--no scrap heap,a little tlc and patience perhaps?--great magpie-c

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  25. That just seems to fit perfectly, and it flows so nicely. Unlike the water through those pipes!

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  26. lovely rhythm - and meter to this piece...fun magpie..bkm

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  27. i am rather fond of the hues in the rust on a pipe..perhaps a budding young artist will find it and breath life in it anew...smiles. nice mag.

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  28. I love the rhyme and rhythm to this one. Nice work!

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