Best Winkles Poems

We bound down the stairs, out into the light-of-day, and into the blue of the
misty breezes, heavily laden with the smell of wild sea salt roses that grow in 
perfusion along the winding road, that bends and turns in gentle lifts and dips to 
the...

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Patrick O’Flanagan’s covert shenanigans
Make people ask where he gets to at night
There’s a perception that Patrick O’Flanagan
Visits a door with a glowing red light

What people don’t know about Patrick O’Flanagan
Is he has only one goal
Each night at ten to ten, visits his gran again
She does...

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It's gettin' late and
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Wow I thought it was 2011

Not 1963 wow I came back up

And fed up with a harsh reality

That is sinful fatality

Faces turn red when the truth

Is fed. They are Rip Van Winkles

In a fast changing global society

Woe is them and me

God help me

People tell me

Harsh...

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Don’t worry about being thinner
Get yourself off down the pub
Then go home to a good British dinner,
Of British traditional grub

Delicious roast beef of old England
Served up with a thick Yorkshire pud
With roast spuds and cabbage and carrots
Plus gravy in which the spoon stood

What’s wrong with...

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Alabaster wings in celestial blue,
glissading on the surface of winds.
Stalking the shore, aerial view,
for luckless winkles and crabs —
briny delicacies.
Lightly ascending
on tapered wings,
seagull sails -
graceful
white.



Susan Ashley
July 17, 2017...

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Dinosaurs snoring
Will their end, be our own rife…
Rip Van winkles clue

Written for


Sponsor S K A T * 
Contest Name Dinosaurs~ HAIKU...

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It so early it's only four o'clock and it's dark on a freezing cold and wet morning,
A man with a cap rings a bell to let us know times getting on and dawn’s dawning,
As the bell rings all the lights on at Billingsgate Market famous...

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May march forth, enter paradise my quill
May you hath,myriad cent hearts to fill
you prosper in , you fame in admiration
he parents in turbulence, he friends in quietude
he winkles in humans, as lustrous source of inspiration
Greater the gratitude for me he's, symbol of his beatitude
Vis-à-vis creed,...

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You are the royal bubbles 
In our eyes as your dimples
melt our plight hope we both find
In our minds

Princess
you are the essence
of our love
As our fate dissolves

In your very smiles
Is instilled precious chimes
A bouquet of sweet lullaby
only we can scribe

rare rhymes
from fable shines
are your delight
at...

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Slip do dah!
Slip my way
Sliding slick surfing time dismay
Who is to say
When winds blow
Anchors distill today
Carried cases of bait to start the day
Who is to say
How many will I catch today
Prosperity some will pay
Others to fill the baskets of bull winkles tray
Laugh today
Some scenes of...

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Rum tum timpy tappy tum tum tum
Rum tum tippy tampy tum.
I flip tiddle winkies with my thumb
Rum tum winky wappy wum.

Ring rang nippy nappy tee tie toe
Rag tag sticky taffy yum
I flick tiddle winkles high-dee-hoe
Knick knack deedle dyddle dum....

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Universe goes calm
With the sunset,
That's twilight of
Reddish yellow sky,
All longings
Reaching to rest.

Sky disappears
Into darkness,
Eyes go blind 
Looking into zero,
That's the hue of
A Night sky.

Awaits moon and stars 
To prove its
Very being,
Lustrous bodies
Add glitter to
The Night sky.

A perfect song
That twinkles,
Melodious to heart
With eyes winkles,
Packed beautitude,
A Night...

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My mate must have seen the big grin on my face
He said spill it man, is that grin glued in place 
I had to confess since the day I got wed 
That I’d never had such a good time in bed

I told him I’d tell...

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Self Portrait
 

If my picture hung on the wall
I’d wonder what you’d see
Would the brush lines show?
A truer side of me
Would the winkles in my face?
Give away my age
Or the slightest hint of gray?
Show up on the page
Would the fire that burns inside?
Show up through...

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