The 20th Anniversary of Russell Hunter's Death
...It was two decades ago today when an actor took his final breath.
When he starred in Doctor Who, he starred in "The Robots of Death".
His name was Russell Hunter and he was born in February of 1925...
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Categories:
cockleshell, anniversary, celebrity, england,
Form: Rhyme
Inversion
...Water flew,
it was above my head
waving or flapping
or did it row?
The boat
was a situation
adrift inside a cockleshell.
I recall the moon vividly
for it was not there.
Dreams fold inw...
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Categories:
cockleshell, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Bedtime Story
...Once, a long ways away, and a long time ago
Lived a wee little man with his silly pet crow;
And once every day, as the sun went to bed
The wee little man and the crow he called Ted
Would go throu...
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Categories:
cockleshell, bird, children, nonsense, nursery
Form: Couplet
Rime of the Ridiculous Mariner
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" Rime of the Ridiculous Mariner "
{warbled to the Merry Tune: Jingle Bells!}
Jingle Bells & Flyin' Hulls
All sheets in so tight~
Yikes Ahoy! There's the ploy!
Sail right through this nigh...
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Categories:
cockleshell, adventure, me, may, me,
Form: Rhyme
My Oh My
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" My oh My "
Hell'sBells & a cockleshell~
Off I sail like a bat-outta-hell~
Flyin' her hulls now I'll be damned~
Into fat tanker I've now rammed!
Could’na see in dead o'night~
My oh my & o...
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Categories:
cockleshell, adventure,
Form: Rhyme