Best Hundredweight Poems

100% Natural psyllium husk delivered solid ecstasy

As of late - I could not but barely move
mine whole body felt
analogous to sluggish mollusk
frequent constipation found yours truly
doubled over in gastrointestinal agony

as if elephant or red (livid with rage)
bull thrust his tusk
into lower abdominal area dawn to...

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About the end of times when
Carts were hauled by Shires,
Coal was king and homes
Were heated by open fires,
A seemingly huge dark figure
From my early childhood days
As he drove his horse and cart
Through the country byways
From village to village to village
Delivering sacks of coal
To feed our...

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The Coke Ration
by Bob Moore ©2018

I remember long ago
the freezing winds
and the cold grey snow
5 am at the council gate
to pick up the coke
one hundredweight

The old pram we used
to drag it home
the wheels all buckled
and starting to groan
was something we just had to do
to keep...

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