Dolphins and Whales at Play
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The humpbacks rolled in the morning light.
Grey whales churned the seas silver-bright.
Dolphins dancing in their foamy trails.
Riding the bows of frolicking whales.
Heave Ho, the sea runs fre...
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Categories:
bondi, language, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia
...Where is this? Are we on Mars?
America – just count the stores,
capitalist carnivores.
That so-familiar movie score,
the swish of passing cars.
The city built on Brotherly Love
(Wells Fargo, ...
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Categories:
bondi, places,
Form: Rhyme
Inspector Amy Scott hero of Bondi Junction
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Saturday afternoon at the shops
Families together laughing and loving a lot
Then evil came with deadly intent
Joel Cauci stalked them with his knife bent
Inspector Amy Scott took the call ...
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Categories:
bondi, death, evil, remember,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Conversation: I Found God, so now what?
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"The Conversation: I Found God, so now what?"
the ugliest thing happened here today,
I could turn away and write of unicorns
but I’ll write about beauty found in the ...
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Categories:
bondi, i am, love, mother
Form: Narrative
Christmas In July
...Six months since Christmas and people are down
Trudging through life with a full facial frown
Back in December we hoped it would snow
But not a flake settled, well wouldn’t you know
I remember ...
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Categories:
bondi, christmas, july,
Form: Rhyme
The Life For Me
...For far shires beyond the western red sun
I’m leaving the Land of the Long White Cloud -
to journey across the far horizon
where cockatoos in bloodwoods sing aloud.
Trading in my black si...
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Categories:
bondi, journey, leaving,
Form: Sonnet
Heres Why My CV Needs Work
...NAME: Phil Latio.
QUALIFICATIONS: LLB (Law) PhD (Medicine) & FSC (Federation Starfleet
Commander).
POSITION: Head job.
AGE: pass.
SEX: I don’t like bei...
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Categories:
bondi, humorous,
Form: List
Sand Goddess
...Supine she lies upon the sand
beads of perspiration finely dot
curvaceous golden brown form
carefree tresses spring, fly away hair
coconut oil lathers coquettish peaks
bared free, fles...
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Categories:
bondi, beach, summer,
Form: Free verse
Little Bay, Day Two: Night Time
...Dusk on Sunday by Little Bay,
Dinner foray begins to play.
Seek Bondi Beach for dinner spice,
Watch hunger reach for ribs so nice.
Slow drive through rain on winding roads,
Focus now str...
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Categories:
bondi, blessing,
Form: Couplet
Bondi Beach
...Heard Bondi Beach is the place to be
Like paradise splashing in the big blue sea
Sir Tom told me about it
Said I should really visit
At the same time say hello to sweet Maria...
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Categories:
bondi, beach,
Form: Limerick
G'Day Jack Oz Is Calling
...Tribute
You are a wonderful human being and a man of many talents Jack Ellison for all your many achievements.
Age is only number - your charismatic persona and optimism shines through yo...
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Categories:
bondi, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Talking Sands
...Here I lie reaching out to other sides
comforting sand surrounds me on every edge
foamy sea washes over me at night,
as the moon's blue light cools my outer body
at the break of day, the sun begi...
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Categories:
bondi, adventure, age, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse
She Ll Be Right
...SHE’LL BE RIGHT
In the merry old land of Oz*
They’ve the secret of happiness ‘cos
They’ve a theorem for plight
Makes them soar like a kite
It’s this motto - SHE’LL BE RIGHT!
King Henry at A...
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Categories:
bondi, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Supermoon
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Based on BBC news article "Supermoon lights up sky around the world"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-37978572
On the night November fourteen
By orbit's cycles, moon looms near
An ...
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Categories:
bondi, beauty, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Verse
Forewarned
...exodus' plague had forewarned
dire straits if the first was scorned
and first was the crimson tide
nine more as pharoah defied
some millennia since passed
we come to know how it's ca...
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Categories:
bondi, beach, nature,
Form: Jueju
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