Best Hosepipe Poems

Winter
Winter glows, it's drifts, it's plains, soft and white.
It's cold belies a threat to all, fear it!
It's there come night or day death don't forget!
Wrap up warm, keeps death at bay, heed, now play!
Spring
If it sticks to form, new life created.
Greedy winter lingers Jack Frost...

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I purchased a rabbit named Brandy
By jingo, that young buck was randy
It caused such a to do
When he humped my left shoe
Thank goodness the hosepipe was handy!

HAPPY EASTER SOUPERS

3/27/18...

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Hot arid summer, I yearn for cooling rain
this endless heat wave; my once lush lawn’s now brown
and from the use of sprinklers I must refrain
we should conserve water as others will frown
I depend on raindrops from my water butt -
can’t use a hosepipe as my...

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Showers, storms, drizzle, rain,
The English ‘summer’s’ here again,
It’s way too hot or way too cold,
There’s no mid-range, it’s uncontrolled.
We get three days of muggy heat,...
No air, a storm and then repeat,
But though rains fallen since early Jan,
By May there’ll be a hosepipe ban!
Whilst other countries...

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haikai
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 Summertime Theme

summertime sunshine
finds a  gap in the curtain
lights up my true love

the summer sun
burns respite clouds shadows
much needed rain

we all enjoy fun
summer holidays no rain
we all pay the price

hosepipe ban will come
flora fauna begging drinks
worms now out of reach

black headed gulls
tap dancing mimicking...

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My aim was spot on at close range or distant
The coppers were on scene post haste
The sirens were loud and extremely insistent
I gazed at the guns I now faced

Seven patrol cars had screeched to a halt
And tyre marks blackened the floor
Seven patrol cars may well...

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Flowers seek the sun-
As newborn lambs find their feet
Life begins anew.

The sweltering sun-
Beams down on summertime fun
Hosepipe ban again.

Leaves fall from the trees
How the nights start closing in.
Everything dying.

Snow on the hilltops
Nothing seems to be alive 
Except crackling fires.

Sun and rain give life-
Once more to...

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That morning! Seemed to arise late
And I was to get up earlier that day;
No time to feel that salubrious ambiance,
And no minute to yawn or relax!
Coz, hundreds and fifties were waiting before my turn!
Yes, it was for the priceless fluid-
Flows like a silver surge on...

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reservoir stock low
hosepipe ban comes into force
dark clouds are looming

The ban comes into force today ... the irony is we live on a little Island surrounded by sea (alas we do not have a desalination plant)!

8/3/18...

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Who snored the loudest was open to question
But each would deny such an insane suggestion
The phone rang just once and she opened one eye
‘Up you get, Nitro, we gotta fly.’

Nitro Cat yawned and he leapt from her lap
His eyes still half closed from his over-short...

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Sudan 1993 and an ugly famine reaps its prey

malnourished bodies make it difficult to believe

that women were created from the rib of men

it is the most vulnerable who carry the weight

if you pardon the cynical pun on the grotesque


the lens is open and a vulture...

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…incongruous car

 

alien

 

shiny-red, carwash-clean

 

not the usual

sharp edges

 

not stolen, like glances

not abandoned, like puppies

not torched, like memories

not peeling, like marriage

not rusting, like opportunity

not dumped, like dreams

not burnt out, well…

 

his coat was left on a rock

overlooking the industrial estate

while drinkers and drivers

leave the...

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A humid day,
mosquito clouds swarm along
a red dirt road to the farm.
There are grimy rows of pig pens,
hazed dark by humming hordes
of black fly.

Bob (an old friend), chuckles.
“Man, you picked the wrong time of year
to come visit.”
The hogs grunt and squeal.
He waves,
“be with you soon.”

It’s...

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