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Bertie Poems - Poems about Bertie

Premium MemberA B C D E F G H

...awkward always alone Allie
bragged boastfully to baby Bertie Bill
clearly clarifying club-footed cloven Callie
deliberately deciphering dairy dung in Dickie Dill

easing eager Edgar’s electrifyi...
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Categories: bertie, word play,
Form: ABC

Premium Memberbumblebee bertie

...bumblebee bertie
belongs beyond begonias
buzzing beautifully...
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Categories: bertie, animal,
Form: Alliteration



Premium MemberPat the Potato

...Pat the potato just sat in the ground
Wondering if he would ever be found
He couldn’t see anything there in the earth
So spent his days praying for all he was worth

Then the ground heaved as a ...
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Categories: bertie, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThanksgiving Turkey Trot

...Bertie the Turkey made a getaway 
And got down on his knees for thanks to say
Bertie knew that his fate
Was to be on a plate
Being gobbled up on Thanksgiving Day.

Bertie couldn’t get u...
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Categories: bertie, humorous, thanksgiving,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberAunties Apartment House For Women

...Her apartment house was shaped like a tall woman’s boot.
I could see why she chose to live there, it did in fact suit.
Her disposition, her opinions, her ideals and her attitude.
Being inside with...
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Categories: bertie, women,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberRum N Raisin 6 - Dances With Wasps

...Those kittens bounded through the flap and started to play
Raisin said the flowers look so pretty today
She went to sniff a daisy but an insect flew out
And so she hollered, “Watch out, Rum, there...
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Categories: bertie, cat,
Form: Narrative

Our Bertie

...You said goodbye to me today,
You cried for me and held me tight.
I tried to tell you it’s ok,
I tried to stay but couldn’t fight.
You gave me love, looked after me,
You we’re always there my fa...
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Categories: bertie, bereavement, loss,
Form: Rhyme

Ghost Story Part the First

...Mad Meg of the Moors they call her 
And she’s always dressed in white
And she’s looking for a bus stop 
As she wanders through the night.
You can hear her hideous mutter
Oh my lord, oh dear, goo...
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Categories: bertie, humor, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe A-Z of Alliteration

...Alan Allston ate an addictive piece of cake.
Bertie bounced his bouncy ball by the bus stop but his brother caught the bouncy ball before the bus came.
Claire, Clara, Chloe and co built a sculpture...
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Categories: bertie, simple,
Form: List

Premium MemberWha Daur Meddle Wi' Me:Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

...Breezy and gallus with nerves of steel
In him the team's heartbeat you could feel
He was the brains of that Celtic outfit
For that he deserves this little tribute
Exploiting an opening with defen...
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Categories: bertie, eulogy, soccer,
Form: Rhyme

Killer In the Mess

...On a Monday public holiday and with my son home from school,
we organized to go out fishing in a creek where blackfish rule,
and while we’re putting in the boot, our bamboo poles and fishing gear,
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Categories: bertie, humor,
Form: Rhyme

A Response In the Waiting Room

...I was suffering the backlash from a vicious winter cold,
and so all my good intentions, I’m now forced to put on hold.
I won’t be pruning any plum trees; I won’t be pulling any weeds.
I’m off to s...
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Categories: bertie, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

At the Inquiry

...It’s really morbid, depressing, and sad,
at the gunpowder factory in town,
and the clean up is almost complete
since the factory was razed to the ground,
and here in the lounge of the tavern,
th...
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Categories: bertie, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHe's a Real Pain

...A dental assistant named Bertie 
Found patients could sometimes get shirty 
One annoying old bloke
Would repeat the same joke
His appointment time was 'tooth hurty'

This old joke d...
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Categories: bertie, humorous, irony,
Form: Limerick

The Perfect Crime

...Sheila Watters and her two young daughters were out for a stroll one day.
When all of a sudden big Bertie McCrudden jumped out and blocked her way.
"A couple of kisses from the little misses and th...
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Categories: bertie, women,
Form: Rhyme

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