Poem Life Is A Toss Of Dice?

 

On Facebook on a writers page somebody asked us to write a poem using the words: dice, ice, lice, mice, nice, rice, vice

Here is my version

Life's A Toss Of Dice

Angela Lansbury 

Life is like a toss of dice, 

You could get sunshine, could get ice, 

could get health, could catch lice, 

could cuddle a cat, be scared of mice, 

but most days life is spicy but nice, 

that's because I'm naughty but nice, 

eat potato, pasta or rice, once or thrice, 

I'm the president, you are the vice, 

election swings like the toss of the dice, 

and so, I say, go with the flow, 

because I know, 

life is like the toss of a dice.

Which goes to show

It isn't only what you know

Yet people always say

it isn't good to have all work no play

Or to rely on the toss of a dice

it just encourages you to shirk

You could achieve more if you work

And sweep the yard and study hard

A not just sit expecting it

to fall in your lap

Or change like the map

Expecting cuddles like a cat

Take my advice

Get up and go

Show who you are and what you know

And don't rely 

On the toss of a dice

When you could read a book

Or go and cook

A cake with spice - that would be nice

Not just the curtain of what's uncertain

A recipe makes it easy

So do what you're able

Put food on the table

If you want to eat, you need to act

That is a fact, let's make a pact

With no time lost, it's time to toss

The salad and pancake, or we'll feel cross

Though you could choose a recipe

With the toss of a dice.

-ends-

Copyright Angela Lansbury

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