The Oval
...Racing the oval of tide
Watching the sun and moon collide
Riding on horses in the oval of fate
Saddling on courses in the ring of slate
Horses in breeds of colors and shade
Forces in creeds ...
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Categories:
blether, courage, men, strength, women,
Form: Rhyme
Boots of Spanish Leather
...
I
I’m leaving today on a promise back to you,
leaving my lonesome blues forever,
and nigh O God is the power and the glory
in my Spanish boots of Spanis...
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Categories:
blether, introspection, song,
Form: Rhyme
A Glesga Setterday Nicht
...“Gaun an bile yer heid” he bawled oot,
As he stood in the middle o the cobbled street.
Tae nae yin in particular.
Did he vent his anger.
Fu as a whaulk he staggered and swayed
Wan pin rooted tae...
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Categories:
blether, anger, city, culture, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Writing
... writing
Writing is rubbing words together
Enough to make fire ,
regardless of how bad is weather
Scribble the pen to make yourself inspire,
Stop doing useless blether
Fulfill your o...
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Categories:
blether, 12th grade, beauty, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Shame About the Beans
...Mavis and Gladys from Eskimo Street
Were having a good old blether
When the doors of the food bank opened
And everyone pushed in together
Mavis fancied some powdered mash
And Gladys a tin of be...
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Categories:
blether, food, society,
Form: Rhyme
Holiday Home
...Set ‘midst windswept dunes and wild wild weather,
the winter storms have left it desolate.
An empty shell, no glowing hearth, no blether.
A but and ben abandoned to its fate.
And yet, awaiting wa...
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Categories:
blether, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
The Politics of Coronavirus
...The government is not debating,
Internally or understating,
Attacking, flipping the opposition,
Or denouncing the wealth creating.
All parties work together,
To social fairness we toast,
Main...
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Categories:
blether, freedom, health, hero, inspiration,
Form: Quatrain
Science
...Metrics,
Real concs.
Problems,
Solve ‘ems.
Nature,
Culture.
See slave,
Behave.
Faction,
Action.
Mating,
Dating.
Suckle,
Chuckle.
Test tube,
Stat loop.
Scope read...
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Categories:
blether, atheist, body, change, drug,
Form: Footle
Tolerance
...You need to be
Happy and free
To live together
And not worry or blether
For tolerance seems to be an old idea
And why is something that is not so clear
Perhaps it’s religion, creed or colour...
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Categories:
blether, life, together,
Form: Ballad
Branches of Life
...
Look down on me and you'll see
A simple blur in natures mist
Looking down on my life's surround
Like it's particles, I'll soon drift
So silently in natures dark
I'll never be that fe...
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Categories:
blether, dark, death, deep, depression,
Form: Quatrain
Jamie Mccowan
...Jamie plays the sport of boccia,
Where you throw your six balls,
Towards the jack with another,
And whoever is nearest, calls.
Jamie has Duchenne Muscular
Dystropy like his brother Scott, ...
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Categories:
blether, dream, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain
Jo Firth
...“It doesn’t matter if you’re young or old,
male or female, able-bodied or disabled,
we all stand with the same shooting [hold],
beginner or experienced [to get enabled].“
Jo’s an archer who ...
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Categories:
blether, body, happy, health, people,
Form: Quatrain
Graeme Ballard
...Graeme’s hero is Steven Gerrard,
That Liverpool and LA football player,
And has Cerebral Palsy. It was hard,
‘Cos doctors said he’d never blether.
He was prematurely delivered 1979,
But can...
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Categories:
blether, body, health, motivation, race,
Form: Quatrain
Trump Goes Missing
...whatever
a welcome lessening of blether
in absentia
it's now outside the tent you are....
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Categories:
blether, abuse, trust,
Form: Clerihew
Into the Blue
...Into the blue I travelled, destination better,
Journey unknown, but couldn’t be worse,
Than before, enthralled by this blether,
The space that makes mice loudly curse.
Interactive area, view...
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Categories:
blether, bird, freedom, language, poetess,
Form: Quatrain
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