I Used to be a Werewolf

I was speaking to friend yesterday and he suggested I post this original poem by G. Laidlaw. Written like all the Author's poetry - in one burst of a creative "mind bubble" - and like many of the works that have appeared previously in Dew On The Newts, it is an autobiographical narrative of real life events.

I Used to be a Werewolf

I remember your place

With the funky God's-eye thing,

Hanging on the wall

With your hippy-trippy string.

I stumbled through the doorway

Fell face first in the room.

Threw up beer and whatever else

I drank that afternoon.

It might have been the mushrooms,

It could have been your hair.

Something really freaked me out

When the full moon found me there.

It framed me in the picture window

That I pushed you through.

I'm glad to see you made it.

The scars look good on you.

You know I used to be a Werewolf

But I'm alright now-OOO!

I remember your tires

Leaving rubber on the road.

Is it any wonder your car

Was the first one that I rolled?

Friends don't let their friends

Drive if they are drunk.

So I took away your car keys

And put you in the trunk.

When I checked the rear-view,

I saw the full moon in the sky

Which freaked me so I floored it...

I made that sucker fly!

Skid marks in the headlines,

Graphic footage on the news.

I'm glad to see you made it.

The scars look good on you.

You know I used to be a Werewolf

But I'm alright now-OOO!

I remember your eyes

Tracing circles by the door,

Where you might have dropped a rock

Of crack onto the floor.

It's hardly a good habit

But it still buys you the farm.

From a simple mountain garden

To a gold mine in your arm.

Welcome to my Never-Where.

A world of cheaper thrills,

Where Santa shoots up heroin

And the moon is full of pills.

Someone shouted "Save yourself"

And I forgot to pull you through...

I'm glad to see you made it.

The scars look good on you.

You know I used to be a Werewolf

But I'm alright now-OOO!

- G. Laidlaw

© Copyright by the Author. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Flowers and Flower Quotes 01

I like flowers and I like how thoughts bloom in the mind. Here are some pics I've shot with 'blooms' others have thought.(You can see enlarged images of the photos by cli cking on them with your mouse.)

When at last I took the time to look into the heart

of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world

where every country walk would be an adventure,

where every garden would become an enchanted one.

- Princess Grace of Monaco

There is material enough in a single flower

for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

- John Ruskin

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin;

yet I tell you,

even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

- Bible, Matthew, 6:28-29

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers

and never succeeding.

- Marc Chagall