#Fowc #Impossible
Its crazy – you’re given the
Made up puzzle in a box and then
Prise it apart – in order to put in back together again
Of course, they give you a guide – but
Something isn’t right
Something doesn’t fit – and
It’s making you wonder why you took the whole thing out of the
Box – all the pieces are there
Laid out on the table – but who said it would be
Easy ?
#Octpowrimo #Brokenpieces
Imperial War Museum North, Manchester UK (via the Inkwell), 22nd October 2019
How does someone express the act of war ?
take you through a hundred years
and tell that tale – that no one else can tell anymore.
The man with a vision
took a thing for brewing his cuppa
and changed it into something – iconic
Smashed with a hammer
Earth air and water
came together and reformed
Falling at the side of a waterway
painted by a painter
who’s centre stood next door
And in the evening sunlight
the air shard shone as shimmering light
cascaded off its solid steel
Morning beckons
and the tales from the shards
can be heard across town
from the tales within.
It’s not easy being me….
I took a fall from a window
and went into flight
aided by the northwest wind
I went to pieces, without assistance
My head and legs went different places
I thought – “that’s it!” – and went to bits
as i thought i’d played my aces
But from the kerb and the grass
i saw a hand pass
and head and body did rise
(to my upmost surprise!)
I looked up at the lad,
as i went good from bad
and we headed back home
a new place to roam
So i sit on the shelf, thankful for health
with other model toys – oh joy of joys
enjoying my place – in my safety of space
and spending time as i can – a new lego man.
the elaborate jigsaw
lies strewn on the floor
of the coffee house
jagged shards of porcelain
cast out in a circular pattern
across the marble floor
perhaps the barista
should have taken note
of the temperature of
the coffee machine
In response to the daily post prompt
Rearrange
(Alternative title : one lads quest against the puzzle machine)
Salford, 28th October 2016
Ok, rearrange the mixed up puzzle bits…
Christmas is coming up so its a definite bet I shall be getting one of these from Santa’s Sack from a well meaning relative in a few weeks time
They say these things are good for the brain – I shall beg to differ.
Now here’s the funny thing.
These 3D wooden puzzles come in a completed state in a plastic box. Unlike your average jigsaw puzzle – the answers there already. What they want you to do is take them apart and put it back together again… and fit it back in the box…
It Kind of Defeats the objective doesn’t it ?
You break it apart – into its various ‘pieces’ and then take hours trying to put it back together again.
I take solace in they give you a ‘solution’ – but try and get any of these puzzles the way they were presented in the box…and I can hear the sound of screaming up and down the country
worse still they dangle the carrot – of another solution, rearranging the pieces
and lord help you if you lose a piece….
and then when you finally made the blessed thing…what happens?
someone undoes all your hard work and you have to begin again….
(AARRRGH!!!!!)
That was me screaming in silent frustration after completing the brown wood pyramid puzzle in the photo and then seeing it fly in different directions….
I’m sticking with the Ipad puzzles.
