Best Codgers Poems
THE QUEEN OF POOP FIGHTS BACK!
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Some numpty bad mouthed my soup style
I’ve taken a break for a while
But I won't be deterred
From writing about turd
And subjects some others deem vile
I’m producing book numbe......
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Categories:
codgers, anti bullying, how i
Form:
Limerick
Who First
...Who first thought to eat cornbread with chili?
And who first thought to add ketchup to fries -
Who first thought to put that bell in Philly -
And who first thought that yeast could make bread rise......
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Categories:
codgers, love, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
Dewi the Dachshund
...When I walk, my chest nearly touches the floor
With tail wagging madly I know I can score.
The judges look at my teeth and nails
I give that steely look that never fails.
My coat is brushed t......
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Categories:
codgers, dog, old,
Form:
Couplet
Perpetuum Mobile
...PERPETUUM MOBILE
I must go down to the pigging shops again
To Morrison, Tesco, Aldi or maybe Lidl
For I Just went there for the sodding milk in vain
How could I forget! it really is a riddle
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Categories:
codgers, humor,
Form:
Terza Rima
Fog and Shale
...A mackerel sky fillets the village
then hides it in a breezeless blear.
Heads poke out of net drapes
sniff and fish behind trawling curtains.
Shopkeepers brace for
wet dog splatter and spray
fo......
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Categories:
codgers, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
What a Subject
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Two old codgers were talking about sex
And ones question popped up next
This Viagra have you tried
For me I can't decide
Mm, that's a hard one,what a subject
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Categories:
codgers, best friend, blessing, funny,
Form:
Limerick
Lunchtime At the Nursing Home
...Hungry for munchies, on his way to the lunchroom,
a rambunctious, persnickety,“fuss-budget”, elderly
jittery, fidgety, geezer, named Cassidy…
whose questionable dexterity, aghast by a massive sneeze......
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Categories:
codgers, funny, people, old, old,
Form:
Narrative
The Waiting Room
...The Waiting Room
The April weather shifted high to low,
Exposing those early clout casters
To the concluding bite of winter;
Footsteps full of foreboding
Trudge their last legs up the inclined......
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Categories:
codgers, health, humorous, life,
Form:
Free verse
Some of Us
...Some of us get it, some of us don't.
Many of us start the work some of us won't.
Different rooms with unfamiliar faces
Similar stories from a myriad of places.
"Keep it simple, take it easy". That's......
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Categories:
codgers, brother, courage, dark, freedom,
Form:
Ballad
I-95
...I-95
“Ya got the horse race
Ya got the dog race
Ya got the human race —
But this is a ratrace”
~ Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Ratrace” from the album Rastaman Vibration (1976)
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Categories:
codgers, america, humorous, nature, psychological,
Form:
Verse
The Road To Miss Weatherbys
...When I was young, eight years at most,
I pedalled to Miss Weatherby's house...
down the street,
past salty old codgers
cheating at checkers,
past Dad's bakery,
around the bend to duck ponds wit......
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Categories:
codgers, childhood, fun, growing up,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Machines With Madmen Groaning
...Machines With Madmen Groaning
Machines with madmen groaning above me at 10 thousand feet,
Grumbling and growling like maniac sky monsters slurping on bloody prey,
Those steel dragons of yore s......
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Categories:
codgers, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
A Magic Ocean
...I recognize your vivacious gaze
A saffron blaze as speckled as the sun
And how you framed your lips
I despise having to say goodbye
Thus, our ethereal realm is descrying.
caused by......
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Categories:
codgers, analogy, appreciation, dream, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Old Codgers
...Two old codgers in rocking chairs
Half time talking, half time stares
Reminiscing about their life
Integration of peace and strife
Will I now be condescending
Maybe to the point of offending......
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Categories:
codgers, humorous, old, poems,
Form:
Couplet
Enigma and Stigma
...Enigma and Stigma
Could your cat really be quite cantankerous?
Or declared a sourpuss which was unanimous;
For what, heaven knows, has a disposition
Designed for my destitute aged condition.
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Categories:
codgers, humorous,
Form:
Couplet