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Old Mother Goose Frankly speaking was rather loose The neighborhood was shocked and all in a dander When she had a brief affair with a well-feathered Gander When the news reached Jack and Jill They took that tumble down the hill Poor Jill lost her drawers and good gracious alive! Little Jack got a rise in his tattered Levis...

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Date: 10/7/2016 7:39:00 AM
This poem reminds me of my childhood.... Congrats Tim, for your placement in the contest!!! ;-)
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Date: 10/5/2016 4:30:00 PM
these are hilarious lines Tim - I've just done a series of parodies of some nursery rhymes - had great fun:-) hugs Jan xx
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Date: 10/5/2016 11:32:00 AM
TIM, Congratulations on your win. Stop by and enjoy my latest blog "from my pen" if you'd like. SMILES ~LINDA~
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Date: 1/1/2013 11:43:00 AM
Oh NO! LOL Loved it...
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Date: 12/26/2012 12:23:00 AM
Just found you Tiim, will be looking out for more from you, think I have a good read ahead of me...Seren
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Date: 12/21/2012 9:06:00 AM
Hysterically fun.
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Date: 12/18/2012 7:10:00 PM
Love it!! Belated congratulations on your win...Thanks for your comments on my "Tender Years" poem. By, the way it is all true - still best friends today. I've driven from SC to California several times..it took us 6 days...what WERE you doing?? Hugs, Holly Moore
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Date: 12/17/2012 5:51:00 PM
Love them. I was thinking of writing a book by Uncle Goose - you know the uncle that every family has that tells the wrong stories at family gatherings. I have about a dozen or more poesm already for it. Yours would fit my style completly. Love it. Mike
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Date: 12/17/2012 8:38:00 AM
A late congratulations! I simply loved it. Thank you for posting such a poem! Sami.
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Date: 12/16/2012 3:50:00 PM
Holy Smokes!! What a riot!!! Happy Holidays! Best to you, gwendolen
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Date: 12/16/2012 10:33:00 AM
want these in the anthology!!! Will talk to you later!!
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Date: 12/15/2012 8:23:00 AM
These are really great and I love them! My big congratulations on your awesome win my dear friend, Tim. Thank you so much for sharing and the smiles. love and hugs, Leonora
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Date: 12/15/2012 4:21:00 AM
Congratulations on your big win Tim my friend can't wait for the rest xx
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Date: 12/14/2012 11:43:00 PM
oh my I sure remember this one, Tim. BIG congrats though for me, I'd put this one right up at the top with those other top two!!
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Date: 12/14/2012 8:32:00 PM
Tim , Congratulations with your awesome Clerihew ;-) always & forever ~PD , Congratulations with your awesome Clerihew ;-) always & forever ~PD
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Date: 12/10/2012 10:14:00 PM
hahaha, VERY funny, especially the last one!!!
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Date: 12/10/2012 6:32:00 PM
Always wondered why Jack and Jill tumbled down that hill, now I know why, LO....love this hilarious clerihew! Hugs
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Date: 12/10/2012 6:14:00 PM
Needed that poem! Big smiles. check you soup mail. love, Kathy
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Date: 12/10/2012 3:59:00 PM
Perhaps a bit x-rated Mother Goose?? The next nursery rhyme might be about the moose that was goosed??
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Date: 12/10/2012 1:36:00 PM
Tim, this is a delightful and fun poem, so well done, best of luck in the contest. Constance
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Date: 12/10/2012 12:35:00 PM
Tim, ha I love these, but I think you have another ten stanza's at least in you with these, very well done....David
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