barbsdad2003

Oct 13, 2007 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Jeez!

That damn sun, she pries

From me a sneeze,

So blinders as she wishes,

As she blithely sees.

I asked her yesterday

If she’d just stop it—jeez!—

But her rejoinder was

Again to force a sneeze …

With no contemporaneous

Discreet apologies.

I think I’ll now trip

Back to home from these

Here awful Florida Keys

And happily escape

The sunny perfidies

And tropical topographies

To TV-watch for northern

Winter’s warns ... along with

Those severe advisories.

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purplemoondoll

18 years 7 months ago

This made me smile

You get sun sneezes too? LOL I thought it was just me. Excellent writing as always my friend! Roll on winter! Kaz x It's impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

Mark

18 years 7 months ago

Actually, though, I myself love the tropics even in the summer. Don't like the winter down there it is just too deserted. Whenever I need to clear my head I look up at the sun it's quite helpful lol Thanks Chuck, Mark

RSScheerer

18 years 7 months ago

Raining here today

I'd gladly take a sunny sneeze or two! There was a co-worker at a job ages ago that always swore looking at even a regular light would make her sneeze! Your poem reminded me of her all these years later. Nice and light-hearted with clever good fun. This was a smile on a rainy day! Ronda

Mark

18 years 7 months ago

So Funny Ronda

A 100 watt lamp will do it to me too :-)

IKnowNoBox

18 years 7 months ago

[Recalls time I lost $25 worth of beverages...]

and CTM (chuckles to myself). (I got three new ones from witnesses) In ink, IKnowNoBox

weirdelf

18 years 6 months ago

I read somewhere

(I read in some pretty strange places, from BMJ to NeoPoet) that sneezing at the sun is an evolutionary development that prevents babies from getting blinded by staring at it. cheers, Jess "Are we having fun yet?"

Mark

18 years 6 months ago

LMAO

I must be a big very baby !

barbsdad2003

18 years 6 months ago

Cats, dogs, and ...

adult people do it, too. Although at least a few humans---adults, teens, toddlers, and sneezing babies---are lacking the responsible gene(s), evidently. And from my current understanding, once they've come up missing the gene, they're unable to go back for retrieval. It's hard to explain the phenomenon to someone who doesn't experience it. Appreciating the comments here, Chuck PS: It comes in handy for determining whether someone's dead yet ... or not. Shine a bright light in the face---and step back (while raising your arms defensively) for possible sneeze response. Just an idea of mine. I haven't really tested that yet.