Those Bells
...Those bells, those jubilant, jaunty clangers
Vibrating chimes dancing across meadows
Cavorting through town
Are gone.
Stolen by a rogue poet
Abetted by a teacher
Who played a recording
Of Poe’...
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Categories:
clangers, high school, humor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Clangers - Turn Left At Mars
...They sent me on a spaceship to walk on this dusty moon
I looked back upon planet Earth which almost made me swoon
I came to meet a Clanger and I hoped I’d meet one soon
But I can’t even find a dra...
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Categories:
clangers, planet, space,
Form: Monorhyme
Tv Childhood
...The programs I watched as a child.
Button moon the clangers too
Mr Ben and Scooby Doo
Bugs Bunny and sylvester the cat
Sesame street and Roland rat
It was tiswas I liked the most
The...
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Categories:
clangers, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Love Or Loathe
...Flying ….love or loathe?
Personally….I am a loather
From the beginning to journeys end
I just want it to be over!!
So much waiting is involved in flying
Waiting, waiting and then some more
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Categories:
clangers, flying,
Form: Rhyme
Heironymus Bisch the Musical Fish
...Hieronymus Bisch, a swamp-dwelling fish,
musician extraordinaire carved out his niche,
by gathering the garbage humans tossed away
cleaning and sawing, was determined to play
his compositions ...
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Categories:
clangers, children, fish, fun, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Wombles In Space
...Wombles In Space
(Split Into two parts because I suddenly got all Limericky )
Part One
The Wombles are not worldly wise
They look to the ground not the skies
They got on a trai...
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Categories:
clangers, animal, environment, space,
Form: Rhyme
Chimed In
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Twits
Hanging
Inverted, dumb
listen in, ease dropping.
Chime in with rude chirps when prompted
With presumed relevant authority
Unwelcome interruption peals
Clangers
Rung
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Categories:
clangers, rude,
Form: Ninette
Old Childhood Friends
...Bill and Ben the flower pot men
The Clangers and a soup dragon
Bungle and Jeffery and a Rainbow in the sky
Crackerjack, Banana splits go wild
Dick Dastardly and Muttley
Mr Magoo is that you
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Categories:
clangers, fun,
Form: Free verse
Puff and the Soup Dragon
...Dear Puff the Magic Dragon
It’s been so long a while
I heard your friend has left you
And that you no longer smile
Soup is that really you?
Yes, it’s been for ages
How come you’ve just rememb...
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Categories:
clangers, love,
Form: Light Verse
Blue Sky Thinking
...Some people say the sky’s not really blue
And the moon was never made of green cheese,
That Clangers and their whistling is a myth
And pocket money doesn’t grow on trees.
But tell a child the sky is...
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Categories:
clangers, childhood, childhood, child, childhood,
Form: Light Verse