Poem - The Wooden Spoon
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..I showed the child the wooden spoon
She laughed and said;-
“That is a modernist
symbol of oppression
whilst you may view it with nostalgia
using it on me
will result in legal action
and withdrawal of your grandparent privileges
I will also be alienated
But that is nothing new"
I bit hard on the spoon
to vent my dissatisfaction
with the post modernist regime
resolving myself to continued celibacy
to prevent a recurrence
.
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thanks for the comment Eileen....
Drax
hahaha great poem
AH! Well VENTED, Drax! Excellent. Way to take a bite!
I feel your frustration. Just glad the nuns can't use the old cane anymore. Ouch! My hands still hurt from the Sisters of Mercy in Ballaghaderreen.
Hi folks... thanks very much for the comments. I was educated by the christian brothers and they used leather straps... I can categorically state that there was nothing christian about them at all ... many of them were total sadists...
... Drax ...
Isn't praise the new discipline?
Hiya Paul... perhaps it is, is then the absence of praise sufficient to produce behavioural change, one wonders...
Interesting how each generation has a different view of what discipline is.
Sometimes a good spanking does the job. Let's be honest, no?
thanks folks for the comments... Drax
Good or bad, It's more likely the reward that's likely to influence the behavior... it's the hope of praise to the child.
When a person carves their own spoon, they develope a new appreciation for it. And spooning is a good thing too.
Hiya Paul, as you say good or bad, in theory we have moved to a more enlightened age, except for war...
PMuse, this still means that even the hand carved spoon cannot taste the soup... :-)
Who ever thought a spoon could also be used for birth control.
Only1tribe4u I missed this comment, apologies, the funniest things work well for birth control... thanks ...Drax..
great poem - I think that a wooden spoon used well can produce a good effect on a child's bottom whereas the discipline of today's child appears to involve much talking - ad infinitum - to no good effect.... cheers.....
Hi ajcor - thanks for the comment, I would agree that there is a happy medium somewhere in the middle.... thanks Drax
A truly different take on the wooden spoon...a strange catalyst to bring about celibacy - very nice, Drax
Thanks Mythbuster - it is always fun when a poem takes twists and turns and the outcome is never assured...
This is great! - celebacy to prevent a recurrence - wonderful line. I have bookmarked this one.
Hey Patty thanks very much for the nice words... this really happened you know... I was in my insurance broker's office and her daughter was there climbing over the furniture and generally misbehaving and I mentioned the wooden spoon, she rolled her eyes as if to say the wooden spoon is out of fashion a Long time... LOL
Okay, Drax, you are most definitely a FANTASTIC poet. Having read 4 of your poems (so far), I can say this is an inarguable fact.
Hi Trips... thank you very much for the nice comment, it is lovely to get encouragement since one writes away - oft times in a silence of sorts, wondering...
Regards..Drax..
Eileen Hughes says:
18 months ago
very true, we can do nothing to reprimand our kids these days.