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Sunshine
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0 posted 2010-05-21 11:14 PM



That Touch of Clash

No, the title is not a typo error
it’s just that I want to be up front
or perhaps I should say just a bit fairer
before I’m perhaps a bit too blunt.

Ere I say too much and ramble on
about masses of folks I don’t know,
you mustn’t think my mind is gone
in telling stories of what irritates me so.

Now if you are here, reading this
then perhaps you are a lot like me:
we take a hit, we make a miss,
but basically believe in good, you see.

And I’d like to think I’ve a touch of class
never snobby, a somewhat ordinary lass,
and then there’re those that’re somewhat brash
and that, I tell you, is a Touch of Clash.

You’ve seen them, the ones that look down,
who seem to have this perpetual frown
as if the air is filled with ragweed spray
they always feel they have a right to say

what’s on their mind, right or wrong, oh yes!
and you will never, ever hear them confess
to nothing other than having the finest things,
that material wealth to which they cling.

While to you or me it seems quite silly
they speak of how much it costs to send Billy
to his “proper school”, so without edification
we know that his is a better education.

Well, then there’s me, just looking ‘round here
watching all the sillies I would hold dear
knowing that I’d not trade in my backyard grass
while they hold forth with their Touch of Clash.

Now, I won’t say those folks can’t have it all
but I’d rather be plain folk and hear the Call;
I’d rather stand far and alone than be in a mass,
and if I be remembered, that it be as a Touch of Class.

©KRJ
1 Sept 99; revised 21 May 2010

P.S. Seems to me this came to be around a time that was coming into its own came to be around a time....

Aha! You got it!



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1 posted 2010-05-22 02:19 AM


Darlin' Dear,

I love this.  I'll be back to read again, I know.

xoxoxo
A

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2 posted 2010-05-22 03:32 AM


"Now, I won’t say those folks can’t have it all
but I’d rather be plain folk and hear the Call;
I’d rather stand far and alone than be in a mass,
and if I be remembered, that it be as a Touch of Class."

Sunshine,
      ...and a Touch of Class you are..well written and well said.ww


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3 posted 2010-05-22 04:02 AM


Hello Sunshine Indeed very classy, thanks for the wonderful read and the trustful portrait of an artist...

regards

yann

Earl Brinkman
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4 posted 2010-05-22 07:55 AM


This was an interesting write that held my attention from start to finish.  I think people with a touch of clash are annoying too!
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5 posted 2010-05-27 11:54 AM


You truly 'Shined' with this one dear gal.
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6 posted 2010-05-27 03:41 PM


"A touch of Clash" - How wonderful!  I know a few people like that and, yes, they can be so annoying that "live and let live" escapes one's mind.  Enjoyed the read.

Helen

Ron
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7 posted 2010-05-27 05:34 PM


Nicely done, Kari.    
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8 posted 2010-05-27 07:35 PM


My dear internet friend has masterfully outdone herself again.   I'm glad to see you bring this back.   Very cleverly written, Sunshine, Miss Classy Lady!  

hugs,
miscellanea

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9 posted 2010-05-28 03:07 PM


Sunshine, I have known a few of those of whom you write.LOL. They live a pitiful dull life,wouldn't you agree?  latearrival
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10 posted 2010-05-28 06:35 PM


Smiling at your dear Karilea..
You m'dear have more than a touch of class.

You are the most beautiful, classiest lady I have the pleasure of knowing.


Missing you...
Love you~Nancy

Andrew Scott
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11 posted 2010-05-28 07:29 PM


You and your poem are, without a doubt, a class act. And I say that with the greatest sincerity.

"We'll chase them like rats across the tundra."

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12 posted 2010-05-28 08:06 PM


Sissie...Andrew said it just right!
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13 posted 2010-05-28 10:32 PM


Yo dear Sunshine,

This is a clever, and nice play on words--"clash" and "class".

Love Bobby

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14 posted 2010-05-29 12:24 PM


Very enjoyable poem.
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