Full Carriages Trundle On
...I don't have a return ticket
not sure if this train
is coming from somewhere or going onward.
In the next seat a 'mick' relative,
we converse in a grunting verse.
Rough hands caked with unspok...
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Categories:
bodkin, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Real Country 'Bum-Kin' - For Lin Lane
...This scarecrow is no country bumpkin
His bottom and head are ripe pumpkin
Touch him if you dare
He’ll give you a scare
By pricking your hand with a bodkin
Inspired by the picture L...
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Categories:
bodkin, body, food, humorous,
Form: Limerick
The Rites of Spring
...Excitedly we travelled to the fair.
As fragrant scents of flowers filled the air.
Dawns gift of light showing sights enthralling.
Dewdrops mirror, broken pearlstrings falling.
Sunshin...
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Categories:
bodkin, spring, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme
Red Rose and White
...Two drummer boys rapped out a beat.
(That Sabbeth day when both sides bled.)
As bitter cold froze hands and feet.
(Palm Sunday fourteen sixty one.)
Both boys in war afraid to die.
(A...
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Categories:
bodkin, conflict,
Form: Blank verse
Palm Sunday
...That Sabbeth day when both sides bled,
Palm Sunday fourteen sixty one.
A blizzard raged as arrows sped,
With armour piercing bodkin head.
The war of roses had begun,
That Sabbet...
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Categories:
bodkin, war,
Form: Villanelle