Best Summat Poems

Devonshire tea with Peter an' Beryl, beware,
it's no the fact that Peter disnae care.
But 88 years doon the track o' life,
an' 84 years fur Beryl, Peter's carefree wife.

Ma Bonny wife Gillian an' this Auld Yin,
oot fur a drive wan day, fur a wee wee spin.
Gettin'...

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Minus adverse side effects
courtesy Ropinirole HCL
couple nights I did try,
albeit yours truly wanted to die,
plus also yearned tubby
among grrrrrreat full dead, no lie,

yes absent asthenia, fatigue,
and/or malaise oh my
nausea, vomiting, somnolence, dizziness,
and asthenic condition,
I woefully did decry
unconsciously kicking,

thrashing, twitching, wife kvetching
downing aforementioned medication
found me awry
beseeching...

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I let a boy, a Roundhead* boy, to live...
I knocked him down, and said, 'stay down my boy!
You're fourteen, and your mother waits to give
You letters** - HEY THEN!  THAT is not a TOY!'
(For he'd stuck me a bit wi' a little knife,)
It only...

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Ben Venue, what a

 view atop the mountain

 peak. Ain't it summat

 once you've reached the

 summit? Loch Katrine can

 be seen in all her beauty,

 looking supreme. A glistening

 sheen catching your eye as

 you look ahead. Pondering 

 what's into the vast yonder

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Ee wor at allotment an we planned to surprise im.
Ee came ome mumblin summat abaat bein forgot.

We ad allsorts on’table and id underneath it.
Surprise! We all yelled when ee walked in.

It were great fun and Grandpa said is eyes were sore,
Sometimes they run ee said.

Pauline...

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Unitarian Church returnee

After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional 
almost three months 
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted 
beautician at Salon Nova
located in beautiful 
downtown Limerick, Pennsylvania

to render my straggly long hair
cut about twelve inches shorter),
whereby a mensch looked...

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