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Sir Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming
Caught many a lemming
To try his Penicillin
On the bacteria that was killing...

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Categories: fleming, funny,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Boat
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."  William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a boat   
a shallow dingy left behind,  
alone in marsh...

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Categories: fleming, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form: Lyric
You Know
Yes, my dear, you know,
You are my source of joy, rejuvenation, hope
I need your emotion spread onto my life,
I need your heart to sing among...

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Categories: fleming, emotions, friendship, happiness, joy,
Form: Ode
Premium Member By Starlight-20 Titles From 20 Friends
By Starlight 

How proud stands the willow
in silhouette of twilight skies.
The willow never weeps alone, 
tears of joy stream down cheeks
at the footbridge where she...

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Categories: fleming, beauty, dream, stars, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plockton - Wester Ross
The greatest holiday gift I ever received  
Goes back so many, many years
Before my life became turmoiled
And before my tears for fears

I was a...

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Categories: fleming, adventure, angst, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sequestered In My Cozy Nook
I have known:
   of wise detectives catching crooks
   of "Thought Police" revising books
   a shipwrecked family named Robinson
 ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fleming, books,
Form: Rhyme
My Name Is Bond
‘My name is Bond…
James Bond,’ I say.
The ladies swoon:
I have a way.

I kill the ‘bads’
And save the day.
My life is cool,
At work and play.

Jack Horne...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fleming, character,
Form: Rhyme
Guinea Book-Pig
THE GUINEA BOOK-PIG

At four she was a guinea pig
For a rising college geek
‘Cause the kid was talkative
Perfect brain to take a peek

So the testing started...

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Categories: fleming, education, funny, growing up,
Form: Chastushka
My People
theystilltreatusbad
we is still working the farms
my people still not read
my children still not write
my wife killed for be a *****
jim crow follow me everywhere
they hanging...

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Categories: fleming, abuse, america, black african
Form: Free verse
My Warrior In a Bottle
My precious hand sanitizer how I love you so much.
You make me feel O so powerful killing 99.99% 
Of those bedraggled germs
Your strong smell is...

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Categories: fleming, emotions, love, power,
Form: Ode
Nevertheless It All Ended In 19 and 64
NEVERTHELESS IT ALL ENDED IN 19 And 64
By Roy Merritt

(When reading it use a Cockney accent and the h is silent)

Oh alas poor Jimmy Bond...

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Categories: fleming, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The World's Favourite Number Seven
spiritual and cultural numerical figure 
                   ...

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Categories: fleming, introspection,
Form: Verse
The Glasgow Clearances
After the end of World War One 
The world said Scotland shipbuilding is done,
No longer would anyone pay their bills
For lowland coal and cotton mills.

Fifty thousand...

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© Peter Hall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fleming, history
Form: Rhyme
The Days of Winter
Cold winter night
The water drips from the icicle
Freezing an icy path
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Cold winter morning
 As Frozen dew crunch under me
Wanting sun
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Freezing winter night
Snuggled by the fire
Longing...

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Categories: fleming, weather, winter,
Form: Haiku
Tell It To the Moon
With hurry-home drops running down her cheeks,
She wrapped her small, soft arms around my neck.

“Daddy, don’t go!” she begged me.
“Daddy, please don’t go!” she cried.
All...

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Categories: fleming, absence, father daughter, fathers
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things