Unknown

Sometimes I wish I could blink and wake up five years from now, other times I wish I could wake up yesterday

Warmer climates

We're not so different you and I

Know how to love then say goodbye

Wearing layers a protective armour

Slowly melting with fervent ardour

A kiss, a touch, a warm embrace

A knowing smile lights up your face

Invest your heart, I'll give interest gladly

Returning kisses truly, madly

Perfect moments when you and me

Especially when you make me tea

Serious rhymes I cannot muster

Thoughts of you make me a fluster

Oh dear my direction has gone wrong

maybe should've tried a song

I think that what I'm trying to say

I'm glad that things turned out this way

Throwing caution to the wind

Fears I hope will soon rescind

I'm not one to assume tales of forever

but

I like you.

Good things happen when we're together.

Cold.

What part of 'I love you' did you not understand?

No realisation you hold my heart in your hand

Your voice once it soothed spills words that chill

No warmth beside me, no butterfly thrill

I long to offer my caress, my embrace

Is it soley me to love your imperfect face?

A body of stone you've locked inside

Your heart from me - will it always hide?

love me, love my inanimate objects

Just recently my mind has been wandering to that which I find attractive in a potential partner.  I have a pretty definitive list as it happens, which in the grand scheme of things is a list of ideals. I'm certain many a girl has much the same detail stockpiled in their brain.  The more attributes from my list a man has, the more likely it is that I will be swooning like a lovesick puppy dog...and as such all too often the specimen of manly perfection will seemingly think I'm interesting, cool and a rather good mate and ergo appear utterly sexless whilst they seek thrills and trysts with some young thing or other.

In some respects I look at men as I do my car and run through a similar selection process.  The obvious first point is does it look good; and this includes days when the sky is grey and you're drudging through Waitrose car park laden with unexciting groceries on a Sunday morning.   That said I don't want the same old model everyone else has got.  I want something a bit different, less mainstream.  Not too easy to drive but feels good and responsive.  I want to walk away but on occasion turn around and give a lingering lustful look because there  lies an object of distinctive beauty.    Likewise not too many owners and a reasonable mileage.

Then there's sound, does it make all the right noises.  Reliability is also a huge plus point, the odd niggle now and then is to be expected of course but for the most part you know you can have faith.  Performance is very important from a long leisurely country drive to just getting you where you want to be or the ability to make your heart race and blood course through your veins with excitement and desire to drive all day long.  

All of the former is an essential package in my book and only aides to maintain my interest on a daily basis.

However (and sometimes unfortunately) I know my car can't give me cuddles, make me tea, take me for cocktails or comfort me when I'm down; nor can it accompany me to to dinner, the cinema, share my interest in surrealism or alternative humour.  I can gain perspective from spending time on a long drive or sitting overlooking a beautiful vista with a carefully selected soundtrack, and my trusty VW can make my heart skip a beat and give me a warm feeling of familiarity and comfort after a long day.

Unfortunately the closest thing to a people based Autotrader is a dating website and well I find a lot of those have been leafed through a bit too much.  However in the grand car lot of life there are a couple of slightly differing specimens that seem to fit the bill. I owned one for a while, bit of a collectors item I have to say, ownership was very hard and maintenance high. After some use a few production line defects surfaced which need ironing out so back to the manufacturer for a while.  The other well I'm not so sure it's up for sale, bit of a newer model I've had little exposure to, a rare and interesting little number not to everyone's taste but which I'd really like to test drive, although I'm not so sure the previous owner was a particularly good one.

hmm perhaps I should give up and date my Golf...now if only it came with blue eyes.

Tea

There's a sense of satisfaction,
which a girl can deride.
It makes her feel familiar like
all warm and squiffsome inside.
There are but two things that cause this effect
and to choose between the two; I know which I'd select
I'm lost without both...now that is clear to me
but the truth is my lovely
I love YOU more than tea.

Fireworks

It was just like a firework.
Full of the promise of things to come; colour, light and noise.
We lit the touch paper and we stand back...it fizzled and our stomach rises, then nothing.

It's gone out.

Was it a damp squib? No we know for sure it's lit - we prepared it to perfection, followed the instructions to the letter. Something maybe isn't quite right. There's a tension, anticipation that it could just go off, there's definitely something there ...we take a few steps back and we wait.

I'll wait.

I Wish I was a Love Ninja

Unassuming in demeanour I'd disarm him with my smile, leaving him powerless to my lightning wit - then with a deft sweep of my enamoured samurai blade at his heart he would swoon and be forever besotted; but obviously in that stand-offish I'm not really an emotional guy I keep it all inside kind of a way...

Two years on

I haven't written much at all for Motor Muppet in such a long time. Sometimes life overtakes art and all that! I decided to take a rest as everyone and their dog (literally) had blogs and I didn't have too much to say.

Much has changed in the world of Muppet since my last musings which has prompted me to change direction slightly. Everyone seems to have an opinion nowadays and the 'net is flooded with material to read. We are all our own published artistes. Much of what I will write will be questioning the world I live in, seeking points of view or discussing things of interest to me. I have also become a bit 'creative' and will post my odd poetry or quirk philosophies. I will more than likely at points revisit my love of motoring, which of course is ongoing and I am currently the owner of a mk 3 VW Golf Cabrio named Gretta.