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Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be

Oh! Dear! What Can The Matter Be

      Oh Dear! What can the matter be;
      Can my flat tyre any flatter be?
      Now I'll have to call out the RAC
      For an emergency repair.

      Oh Dear! Now what can the matter be?
      I think I have flattened my battery.
      I only have to go from A to B,
      I don't think I shall be there!

      Barry Stebbings
      14/4/2016

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Eve Roper

Date: 11/10/2020 9:40:00 PM

This poem makes me feel like me, trying to do things makes my brain hurt. Enjoyed reading, Barry.

Barry Stebbings
Date: 11/11/2020 10:46:00 AM

Thank you, Eve, // Barry

Gregory Richard Barden

Date: 2/4/2018 3:35:00 AM

Wonderful example and charmingly whimsical write! I think, perhaps, I may give this fun form a bloody good try ... thanks for the share and opportunity, friend! :-)

Curtis Moorman

Date: 2/3/2018 4:49:00 AM

Barry, thanks for sponsoring such a fun to enter contest. Seeing the remarks of my fellow poets, I know competition will be stiff.

Barry Stebbings
Date: 2/3/2018 4:57:00 AM

Thank you, Curtis. From the fun poems I have received so far it is going to be close judging. // Barry

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/31/2018 8:58:00 PM

Loved your example poem and this looks like a fun contest you cooked up, Barry!

Barry Stebbings
Date: 2/1/2018 3:15:00 AM

Thank you, Andrea, I hope people enjoy it. // Barry

Anisha Dutta

Date: 1/30/2018 11:16:00 PM

What can the matter be! Run. Have fun. It will be done.

Barry Stebbings
Date: 2/1/2018 3:14:00 AM

Thank you for reading and commenting, Anisha. // Barry

Jan Allison

Date: 1/30/2018 12:19:00 PM

what a fun poem Barry I was going to do about being stuck on the lavatory but then discovered its already been written about with 7 old ladies being stuck so its back to the drawing board lol:-) hugs jan xx

Barry Stebbings
Date: 1/31/2018 4:51:00 AM

Thank you, Jan. I am sure you will find something to write about. // Barry

Barry Stebbings

Date: 4/16/2016 10:02:00 AM

Thank you, Broken Wings. Pleased you enjoyed it. Barry.

Constance La France

Date: 4/16/2016 9:44:00 AM

Barry, this is delightful and I am loving it 7, I used to have a second hand car that had a new problem everyday it seemed, poor thing, I had to put it out of its misery !!!