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Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ale, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bio:Closing Time,Memories



       CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB


The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...

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Categories: ale, chicago, friendship, memory, mental
Form: Bio
Premium Member Silence Felled
Silence Felled

Lurking in dark corners
The swamp stirs in the night
As the deceiver rises
Begging to share his illusions might

Only behind the veil
Does he let his murky...

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Categories: ale, art, dark, evil, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Looney Tune
Max is mad at Molly
Samantha’s sore at Seth 
Freida’s freaking out at Frodo
While  Hobbits hold their breath

Jack jokes about poor Jill
She hits him with...

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Categories: ale, angst, conflict,
Form: Quatrain
A Ghostly Tear
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O’ crooked branch and magpie’s claw,
yon rusted chains a’ sway this night
Clutch tight a sign “The Seagull's Squall”
of splintered wood and storm clouds fight
Old tavern...

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Categories: ale, dark, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Onoff the Cuff
I believe that poetry is and of is was were have has been of as one pretenses a 
poetic practical pompous, pro  (p) ransomedramatical...

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Categories: ale, august, confusion, culture, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member King Arthur the Great
It’s all about me!
It’s all about me
I am the King sitting in the tree

It’s all about me
It’s all about me
I am clapping my hands with...

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Categories: ale, art, children, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Gypsy Dance
Climb up the hill where gypsies hide,
And breathe on the wind of a restless tide;
Where notes of sorrow from a violin,
Cry out to the night...

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Categories: ale, life, dance, night, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Leaving Wales
Wales to me is her Celtic tribal history,	
Wales to me is walks upon her shores.
Wales to me is her druids, saints, and mystery,	
the soil I...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ale, leaving, longing, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Fishermans Brush With Death - Sea Shanty
One fine day I was fishing at sea
Two big blue whales swam up by me
They flicked their tails sent up a spray
All I could do...

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Categories: ale, boat, fishing, water,
Form: Lyric
Seagulls of Barry Island
The sea gulls down at Barry aren’t your average little pests 
 They think they own the sea side and the all wear hooded vests...

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Categories: ale, beach, bird, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Renaissance
Take me back to a more romantic time
Of kings and castles and love sublime

When chivalry was in the air
Let me kiss the hand of my...

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Categories: ale, fantasy, imagination, me, me,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Casual Observation
It was not that she was the only woman in the group, when mingling precariously beneath the bronze figure of William Booth, or her classic...

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Categories: ale, angst,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member My Impromptu Picnic
[Written during a twelve hour power cut caused by
Storms this past winter]

The storm that arrived in the depth of the night
Got even worse with the...

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Categories: ale, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sawney Bean, Legend of a Cannibal - Written In Broad Scots Dialect
Thar was nae richt ae laddie sair
wha heft a cave 'side Galloway,
wi' nae jaiken he griftit dare
as he was nae tae lippen tae.

Ill-naitur'd  fishwife...

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Categories: ale, history,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs