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She Kept Forgetting To Take the Pill Part 2

Maybe Baby Young cad Is dad Leaves her For Fleur! Teen mum So glum Up duff Feels rough Loo quick... She’s sick Huge tum Soon mum Wide girth For birth Can’t sleep Counts sheep Morning... Yawning Foods spurn... Heartburn Feels pain Again Again More pain Babe due Needs loo In rush Must push Not far In car With mum... Best chum! Log jam Bedlam! Head’s down Feels crown Mops brow Push NOW Babe’s born Named Dawn Babe screams Mum beams Cuts cord In Ford! All’s swell Child’s well Follow up poem inspired by Footless contest 11-1-17

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Alexis Y.

Date: 11/22/2017 6:49:00 AM

Wow! Jan, This is hilarious. You are so good at this form. I could just picture the whole scene. Excellent job:-) Alexis

Jan Allison
Date: 11/22/2017 6:58:00 AM

I find writing one footle so restrictive as I just can't stop once I write one:-) hugs jan xx

Judy Konos

Date: 11/13/2017 9:26:00 AM

Every once in a while the unusual comes along...Hellooooo Miss Unusual.....

Jan Allison
Date: 11/13/2017 9:29:00 AM

lol Judy thanks for the inspiration with the contest, the trouble is with footles once I start i can't stop :-) hugs jan xx

Dale Gregory Cozart

Date: 11/2/2017 3:24:00 PM

This is hilarious!!

Jan Allison
Date: 11/3/2017 4:40:00 AM

Not if you are left holding the baby!!!!:-( hugs jan xx

Joanna Daniel

Date: 11/2/2017 9:45:00 AM

Wow! You're really good at these string of footles, Jan, I couldn't even come up with one for the contest...

Jan Allison
Date: 11/3/2017 4:40:00 AM

I just love the simplicity of the form Jo:-) hugs jan xx

Roy Pett

Date: 11/2/2017 5:47:00 AM

Absolutely amazing, so imaginative and so clever, funny and entertaining, just brilliant Jan. :))

Jan Allison
Date: 11/3/2017 4:39:00 AM

I adore the footle form Roy and find it addictive lol:-) hugs jan xx

Arthur Vaso

Date: 11/1/2017 9:13:00 PM

So good, made me smile!

Jan Allison
Date: 11/2/2017 2:31:00 AM

If I can make folks smile then all is good:-) hugs jan xx

John Michaels

Date: 11/1/2017 7:42:00 PM

Woah, that's a seriously long string of Footles! Great story and some cool rhymes! Well done, Jan! Regards, John.

Jan Allison
Date: 11/2/2017 2:31:00 AM

Thanks John:-) hugs jan xx

Agnes Krampe

Date: 11/1/2017 6:15:00 PM

Your poem made me smile. I love how you told the entire story in footles. And what fabulous rhymes.

Jan Allison
Date: 11/1/2017 6:18:00 PM

We were restricted to just one footle for the contest and once I start writing these i can't stop it is quite an addictive form!:-) hugs jan xx

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 11/1/2017 5:41:00 PM

So cool, Jan!! I found it funny that you rhyme born with dawn! Loved the bedlam rhyme!! and the FORD!!

Jan Allison
Date: 11/1/2017 5:50:00 PM

Yes born and Dawn rhyme to the British ear and i couldn't resist the Ford line lol. The contest was restrictive with one footle and I just couldn't stop once i started the theme!:-) hugs jan xx

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 11/1/2017 5:41:00 PM

soupmail

Jan Allison
Date: 11/1/2017 5:48:00 PM

replied:-( xx

Eve Roper

Date: 11/1/2017 5:04:00 PM

Awesome! :)

Jan Allison
Date: 11/1/2017 5:48:00 PM

Thanks Eve:-) hugs jan xx

Lim'Rik Flats

Date: 11/1/2017 5:00:00 PM

The mother of all footles! ;-) FUN FUN FUN huggapoos ~j

Jan Allison
Date: 11/1/2017 5:03:00 PM

Cheers John:-) hugs jan xx

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 11/1/2017 4:02:00 PM

:))) .......... congratulations with the little one ... to the proud parents :)) - GREAT, JAN :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Jan Allison
Date: 11/1/2017 5:02:00 PM

Sadly the poem isn't fiction for all Anne Lise and a young lass can get pregnant and the lad scarpers and she's left holding the baby:-( hugs jan xx

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 11/1/2017 1:54:00 PM

Nice one

Jan Allison
Date: 11/1/2017 5:01:00 PM

Thanks Kim:-) hugs jan xx

Tim Smith

Date: 11/1/2017 1:06:00 PM

midnight - sleep tight ...babe cries - mum sighs ... dads sword - snips cord

Jan Allison
Date: 11/1/2017 5:01:00 PM

LOL Tim I am all footled out!:-) hugs jan xx

Ilene Bauer

Date: 11/1/2017 12:56:00 PM

wow! you've really gone to town with these, jan! lots of fun!

Jan Allison
Date: 11/1/2017 1:02:00 PM

I find the footless format such fun and we were restricted to only one so I thought I would expand the story and it grew and grew lol:-) hugs Jan xx