Written by Susan Lane SLCM Keeper of ColourMine
ColourMine: I don’t only need this, understanding new direction ever reversing solitude to a new dilemma
I Don’t Understand (But I’m Doing It The ColourMine Way)
More reminiscing from Squarespace with lots of frustrations and no solution in sight despite all my best efforts to wrangle everything into place, it should be so easy but it’s yet another facepalm moment for me!
More tribulations for you to peruse
I just don’t understand
With everything I’ve already gone through
Just when I think I’ve done
Made every adjustment under the sun
Completed, checked and redone
And yet from Google all I see
Are things that are not good
For ColourMine and me
They all need fixing
Before my website is good and free
To be viewed by everyone,
All and sundry, who can read
The last thing I even thought that I’d need to do
Was the watermark in a larger brighter hue
To be readily seen when I thought it was to be
There unobtrusively
Obviously not so it’s changing again for me
I might bold it, and take it up a point or maybe three
I might even go for a deeper or lighter pink
Or maybe a purple or even in fact anything
That will show up brilliantly
Against a nice, dark, green
ColourMine Needs Extra Care
Well, it could take some time
To finish the ColourMine design
What I want you to see is not grot or grime
Not necessarily elegant
But something nice you see
That you will be able to read and hopefully
Gradually see all the things in life
That have bothered me
Before, during and after
Building this Squarespace entity
Thought I Was Ready
When I started building ColourMine you see
I didn’t realise all the things I needed to be
To get everything visible
Even if it’s just for me
When you consider
All the things I can do
Word, CorelDraw, PowerPoint,
Designer and WordPress too
Yes, that’s all me
So, you’d have thought I’d be
Extremely competent
And fully conversant
With everything computer,
How wrong can you be?
Well, I’m up for the challenge
But I didn’t think I’d need to be
Learning Canva or Photoshop,
Oh, no that’s not me
More Difficulties Lie Ahead
For me that’s how
To encourage even more difficulty
Maybe I’m too impatient to learn
These new fandangled packages you see
After all I started to build
The ColourMine website just for me
But I then began to see how others may
Have been affected most likely
By life’s problems similarly
The big companies or corporations
Just don’t see
The problems that affect
A normal everyday family
Not like you and me,
They just hire someone in
To do any heavy lifting,
Make everything look fabulous
And work brilliantly
Not like lots of one-man-band outfits
Who have to do everything,
Just like you and me
My Own Stupidity
But I can’t blame them
For any inconsistencies
With ColourMine you see,
Because I didn’t do all my homework
Not completely
Obviously, I realised I’d be the chief
And all the workers
To do everything that you see and read
Small snippets of my life in verse
In fact, everything you read
Is all my originality
I’d just thought once I’d done
It would be easy you see
Typing, checking and uploading
All for free
My Very Own Facepalm Moment
Now you can all laugh because obviously
If I’d done all my homework diligently
I’d have seen I didn’t have all the tools
Iin my basket that I’d need
That’s a definite huge facepalm moment there for me
Damn, which is it to be Tea or Asti
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ColourMine poetry, and the original photographs, are completely authentic to myself, Susan Lane – no AI, no plagiarism, all checked and verified by copyleaks
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