In Praise of ABC Tales

What is ABC tales and what does it Stand for?

A tale
Or two
Or three perhaps

Would not go amiss
ABC means you start
At the beginning and work
to the end

It's easy as ABC
123
You and me!

You never really
miss something

Until you have lost it
Or almost lost it

You know its value

The release got from writing

It's not therapy as the shrinks know it
But it's therapy to us

A way of being and connecting
With people connected by the common thing:

The lack of fear of the P word
Poem

For some this word is abhorrent
Mention it and they may laugh

or frown
Inwardly at least

But we are united by that
Different minds

Playing out our internal
Shapes on blank page

The purity of LCD white
A canvass for our sins

A template
for vivacious celebration

It is bigger than one person

A true captain is also a fellow traveller

Indeed he is part of the very fabric of the boat

A boat that is part of a fleet

A fleet that sails for expression

truth, beauty, and human frailty

It sails on the seas of the unknown

So we are united

In and though this site

And connected with the essence

of ourselves