Tom's Random Ramblings


Here are some peculiar thoughts that have entered my head at one time or another. They're organised alphabetically (in a rather eccentric fashion), for no particular reason. One day they may become poems or stories, or maybe they won't. Please feel free to use any of them in your own writings, just so long as whatever you write is interesting.


A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


A

All of my friends seem to be over taking me on the path to adulthood

All of my friends are all of me

Am I the friend of my friends' parents?

Advertising signs in space (are the advertising the signs, or the space?)

A musical instrument is dead without a player

Abandoned Coke can in the street I kick at you with weary feet

Apathy is a great motivator

Are you alright? No - problem.

A concrete moose and a two ticket truck

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B

Battling snakes made up of shopping trolleys

Beach ago, A

Balloons discarded in a polluted canal. Beauty in filth, soon to burst and become filth

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C

Contracting diseases is good. I recommend you contract them out to numerous friends and enemies. Friends will appreciate the excuse fodder, and your enemies may die.

Computer running at speed of light

Confused question marks

Comedy of tears

Cigarettes, gas tubing, and a violin bow

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D

Does love have to be recognised to be unrequited? If so, I don't even have unrequited love.

Do they turn off the power lines above train tracks at night?

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E

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F

Freeing Australia II from the shackles of the Maritime Museum

Friends is like marriage - til death do us part

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G

Graffiti - ugly or beautiful?

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H

Herding snakes made up of shopping trolleys

How should we count stairs?

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I

Innocent incense floating through the room

Intergalactic car crash

If the truth is out there, where, exactly, is there?

I have the ability to be faithful to a dream

In the city the stars are streetlamps

It is a curse to love everyone. Or is it a blessing?

I'm too romantic to get a girlfriend

I walk there

I trudge back

I was born in the Year of Star Wars

I'd hate to be called John - every letter would be a "Dear John"

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J

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K

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L

Life as a computer game which you can Restore

Letter openings are always unoriginal

Love is a cruel kindness (or perhaps it just seems so)

Love is sexist - you fall in love with someone depending on their sex.

Laughing in the face of boredom

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M

Moon that I have brought inside and tamed (what is it?)

Memories of a cherished piano

Mowing circles around trees whilst leaving the lawn alone

Musical chairs on a bus

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N

Nothing's worrying me (it's terribly annoying)

Noble paradox

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O

Observations of a telephone

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P

Petrol and Saltwater - only mix in boats.

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Q

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R

Running out of time - a man who runs so fast he's going at the speed of light and travels into the future (or is that the past?)

Rocks for peasants(pheasants?)

Remember that a lot of this is ironic. Perhaps even double coded.

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S

Slave of (or to) the television

Smuggling books that say "Not for sale in X" into X

Schrodingers Scratchie

Some people search in other people's bins. I search in my own.

Someone must be normal to have an abnormal

Searching for the stars on an abandoned basketball court

Soccerballs for dogs

Secret messages in TV advertisements (No that's not poetry, that's reality)

Sunflowers by moonlight

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T

Ten views of a cup, cat or fire hydrant

Training trains to train trains

There is more poetry in a gas lamp then a flurescent tube

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U

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V

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W

When I love you becomes superfluous

Why are orphans (in the story books) always children? Can grandparents not be orphans?

When you read about somebody with your name, it changes you

Why do rock/movie stars die young?

Why do women's razors have such peculiar handles?

When you are without love (looking in) love has a fascinating beauty. Or is it ugliness?

Why do I walk more slowly from my destination than towards it?

Where have all the dragons gone?

Why do so many questions begin with "W"?

Wars are useful for unification. But little else

Watering concrete is greatly enjoyed in the city

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X

Xylophone is not poetic. I don't care what you say.

X-Ray isn't either.

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Y

You have to be an enemy to have an enemy (anemone?)

You can have wrong with out right. Can you have right without wrong?

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Z

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