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Premium Member My Trip To the Mighty Blighty
My trip to mighty Blighty.

At the age of just nineteen
I bought myself a ticket
Packed up all my bags and stuff
And climbed aboard the ship
I was off to mighty Blighty.

And so I left these Aussie shores
And sailed the deep blue seas
I crossed so many lovely countries
And...

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Categories: blighty, adventure, growing up, ocean,
Form: Free verse
To Blighty and Back
Just got back from visit home.  Was nice to get out of the desert for a little while.. unfortunately still have to get back to work at some point...


pennies saved for months
for reprieve from blistering heat
leaving sand behind

greeted by green grass,
cool rain and ale,...

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Categories: blighty, family, travel,
Form: Haibun
Leaving Blighty
Stinky Stan the dustbin man
Was always less than fragrant
The aroma hung like cattle dung
And he looked  like a vagrant
If you saw Stanley at his work
You’d never call him posh
He wore the same clothes everyday
And never seemed to wash
Our Stanley wasn’t stupid though
In every days...

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Categories: blighty, workclothes,
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Premium Member Emagi Thompson Blighty
John Thompson 'COMING BACK'

   /____BLIGHTY_______ ww1
   \...

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Categories: blighty, poems,
Form: Shape

Book: Reflection on the Important Things