Are you fit and trim?
Tall or short but slim?
Workout regularly at the gym?
Monitor the diet to keep that vim?
Work only on the notorious case?
Sort the kid’s trouble without any trace?
Golf only with those who are ace?
Have the sporty car but don’t race?
Hair always done at The right place?
Pamper your body, nails or face?
Cultivate those with a solid base?
Avoid shoes you have to lace?
Got it all sorted but …
Still feel empty in the gut?
Not sure how to escape this rut?
Wonder about that isolated hut.
Consider saving that mistreated mutt
but scared others may think you a nut?
Envy and pride we have to cut,
avoid temptation to ‘tut tut’
You know the solution!
Cease your self-focused delusion;
Control your emotional pollution;
Learn to resolve mental confusion.
You’ve read the books.
Find a guide or group who looks
like they have sussed your quirky nooks.
Give it a go, see what cooks!
ccc 18.12.2006
aroused 
I love this! It has humor and intelligence combined.
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Yep, I’m a cooked nut, already found my hut, the door’s firmly shut, but I’m still looking for the next butt. https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/my-doors-firmly-shut/
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Put me down for 13 ‘no’s’ and 2 ‘yes’
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geeze Brutus you need to be more specific than that … which two are yes?
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I don’t give much thought to the isolated hut …. I just go there, and when I am there (and at other times, as much as possible) I avoid shoes of any variety – laces or not. Honesty, sadly, prevents me from supplying a ‘yes’ to the other ones.
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too afraid of what people think holds us back from enjoying the best things in life, great poem Kate!
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I olove this “Control your emotional pollution”. Far so necessary.
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Wow such great rhyming words, Kate. I loved the last stanza. You have read all the books, so find a group who can you can talk to and find a solution. Great poem.
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This is funny and impactful. I guess I am sorted inside but messed up outside 😀
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It was actually cool enough at 7 am just after I posted my verse… (I was up too early)…
that I actually got out and went for a mile walk. Rain and humility in the forecast all week.
Humor is one of the best healers… 🙂
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Impressing Kate . 🙂 loved the poem .
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Exactly! Physical fitness isn’t the only thing to consider.
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Some of us have sage rolls 🙂
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This is fun, clever, and important! Great poem, Kate!
We’ve definitely got to do our best job of being our best self in this life!
HUGS!!! 🙂
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Ah! Fitness of body and mind. We have to keep striving.
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absolutely so many focus only on the physical to the neglect of mental, emotional and spiritual … nourish your soul
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