Uncle Spelunker
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Uncle was a spelunker
drove to the caves
in his clunker
(it was quite the junker)
without a sound
he sunk underground
pitch black as night
and on his hat
a bright white light
(the ...
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Categories:
carbuncles, car, fun, humorous, word
Form: Rhyme
London
...Shoreditch clung to its ruin
Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses
And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields,
The shepherds rambling onwards,
The herders with their slow-moving cat...
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Categories:
carbuncles, allegory, allusion, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Lunchtime At the Nursing Home
...Hungry for munchies, on his way to the lunchroom,
a rambunctious, persnickety,“fuss-budget”, elderly
jittery, fidgety, geezer, named Cassidy…
whose questionable dexterity, aghast by a massive sneeze...
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Categories:
carbuncles, funny, people, old, old,
Form: Narrative
Growing Up
...Growing up that age,we‘ve grown out
Of mothers bosom into streets,
With sown leather that bounces
Up and down among us,
Gone far and wide, swimming in lakes
Of Spirogyra green and tea ...
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Categories:
carbuncles, childhood
Form: Free verse