Best Talbot Poems

Mrs. Lightfoot had taught music at Talbot Elementary School for years.
A couple of her pupils excelled in music but most became engineers.
She sat at her desk to muse upon the past after another trying day,
Recalling events that had contributed to the 'dyeing' of her hair...

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Port Talbot

The city of steel,
Is the place where I belong,
Under its industrial cloak and working class reel,
Where talent is abundant and steelworkers are made from steel.
The city of steel,
The place where chimneys stack high out of reach,
And golden sand river from its arms,
Where identity and...

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MY WIFE
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my love, my wife; first met at work, my love. 
we would meet each day, kiss, then go our way,
her on the line, me, my office above.
for ten months that way it had, it did stay!

however, topman, me, had perks, tea breaks,
daytime dates true...

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love the game
play with my balls all the time
top man on the green...

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AT ONE WITH NATURE

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The sun shines, brightly lights my day. My garden verdant many hues of green. Greater speedwell, resilient, blooms no matter the season. Late spring, early summer it explodes. Late Jack Frost, it copes beyond my imagination. A host to many invertebrates sadly...

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Abandoned

I have read and told little white lies to bring smiles to faces of old folk, abandoned! I have reared lambs and calves and piglets too, not knowing why they were abandoned? I have seen left wrapped up warm, with a note, which gives a...

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I write of true love.
For you, you have been my life,
forty-eight years of friendship,
openness, true bliss.
With words, I have worshipped you!
No doubt in my mind, love you!

As each year went by,
our love grew strong, our bond tight.
Moonlight oft led to rapture,
many stary nights.
We rolled...

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A rhopalic verse:
Inspired 
by
and 
DEDICATED
to
TOM CUNNINGHAM
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Tom enjoys poetry dedicated,
to others talented endeavourings.
A master following, dedicating!
Your's Thomas, heartfully dedicated!...

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Plastics, yes, a bane on all life,
A bane on, bane on, bane on life!
All our pollution causing strife!
All our world, in peril!

All our denials, will it kill?
So will it, will it, will it kill?
It does and who pays? Pays the bill?
Nature, its hands forced!

Nature, seasons...

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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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haikai
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the buddleia
a diurnal kingdom...
butterfly courts

a coronation
the orb brightest of orange...
painted lady crowned

bees flowerflies wasps
most grateful to their host...
the gardener

nocturnal bats moths
hedgehogs if lucky a fox...
a hidden frog croaks

dusk a blackbird claims
no doubt a choral master...
may bugs abundant

the Scots pine maypole
cockchafer fly... encircle...
black headed gulls dine

sun...

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daylight fading
nineseventeen pm
hedgehogs feeding

light holds
nineseventeen pm
horizon glows

a blackbird sings
nineseventeen pm
good night

houses lighting up
nineseventeen pm
days still lengthening

croaking frogs a splash
nineseventeen pm
Basho comes to mind

evening beckons bats
nineseventeen pm
the gardeners' friends

sat by the pond
nineseventeen pm
mosquitoes feasting

hot and humid
nineseventeen pm
sleeping naked

the garden buzzing
nineseventeen pm
june bugs make a show
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nineseventeenPM Poetry...

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"What we've got here is a very serious language barrier, not mine!
Let me introduce myself, I'm Tricky, a Doberman Pinscher and a thoroughbred.
My Dad Mick, clever, thinks he can talk to his pets, whatever!
He has two, yes, me and a cat called, grruf, T. C.!
Oops,...

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To write six lines of smiles I'll find a treat,
for my best friend, nature, in spring, a joy!
Birds sing, bring cheer, new life, alleluia!
Small bird, the Jenny wren, full of gusto!
Will bring a smile to your face, his volume!
He sings for the world, six lines,...

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this is an enclosed rhyme
these next two sentences
enclosed as in parenthesis
with the first and fourth line

The rhyming sequence must conform to A,B.B.A, any other format then it is not an enclosed rhyme in the true sense of the definition.
 
Example of a Petrarchan sonnet: William...

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