Nordic cloud

Sep 03, 2009 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Spliffing

SPLIFFING

Spliffing!

Oh the words that we take up

and make up

our speech use

what do they all mean to us now

out of date and no longer

relating to anything

they pop up

and out of our spout

the young look askance

but their language is also

punctuated creations

of rows of new words

absurd to us oldies

who look aghast

remember our past

where a spade was a spade

but who made it so

we don't know.

The poets they revelled

in language dishevelled

just look at Alice

whose mirrors distorted

all things we retorted

and snorted a curse

on the cursive subversive

rules on our verse

so just feel free

be perverse.

— Nordic cloud, Sep 03, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Oslo and Flatdal, Norway., NOR

Favorite Poets: Too daunting this.

Critiques

Seren

16 years 9 months ago

Dearest Ann

I am smiling and I had a laugh at this one, its bloody true though even I have to ask my kids sometimes what things mean and when they tell me LOL I am usually gobsmacked lol love and hugz Jayne x x We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. Lynn Hall ...

lyz

16 years 9 months ago

Dear Ann

Cute, funny and true. Let us call a spade, a spade, and have a laugh over this one. It is a great write. Lyz. x

Nordic cloud

16 years 9 months ago

Did anyone here use spliffing

when they were little, I still use it today, its probably only an English-English saying, but who knows? Come with some of the words you used when little anyone? Bob's your uncle/ bang on/ golly/ by jove/ gee hoshefat(?)/ stone the crows/ blimey/ gosh/corny/mamby pamby/wet/hell and furies/ what the blazes/ what the deuce/heeby geebies/blethering idiot/ adlepated-nincompoop/ etc.... The dictionary here couldn't stomach these although relatively harmless. Webster (1959) had nincompoop! Yours Ann of Norway.

Diatom Shells

16 years 9 months ago

hello ann!

this is so very charming and sometimes we may feel we drift down a river of lost and unknow words but o the wonderland of life lets us revel in perversion. lotsa love! -diatom shells

Geezer

16 years 9 months ago

I am....

I am old enough that what you say makes sense to me. I used to say: "I am up for that" the younger ones say: "I'm down with that!" Me: Your mother wears combat-boots, and they say: Yeah, she's in Iraq, Me: I smacked him! They: You kissed him? Me: That sounds like a gay time. They: No man, there weren't no homo's there. Etc. And, thanks for your comments on my poem for wifey's B-day, I changed the last verse. What do you think? Your knight, Sir Gee. P.S. Spliffing? I thought a spliff was a marijuana cig. LOL

Nordic cloud

16 years 9 months ago

Venerable Sir geezer

Old enough, you are but young, but pray I will not tarry to find your age what is it but an idea like time itself. Yes all those modern words, I get most of them in Norwegian of course, so I haven't a clue what goes on in the UK now, I even sound like a really ancient lady if I open my mouth in the UK among people of the same age, as I have been nearly 40 years away from that country(visiting mostly Scotland and thats a wheen o'blethers!) and I am not with English speaking people in my days, only you here, I use English but also mostly N. Thank you my kind subject for your appreciation of my verse. Yours your Q Ann of Norway