Black Velvet
...§Black Velvet Black Velvet
Served creamy and cold
Poor Man’s Black Velvet
Both tasty and bold
We were both called Terry
But he was six foot four
To my six foot one
A full three inches more
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Categories:
damply, friendship, fun, humor, military,
Form: Rhyme
Love and Dandelions
...Blow-ball and Cankerwort,
words born from a common tongue.?
Lions tooth, ?
Priests Crown, ?
Moles Salad and piss-a-bed.?
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English is most practical ?
when it is rustic and colloquial.
‘Swi...
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Categories:
damply, poetry,
Form: Free verse
How To Spell Dandelion
...Blowball and cankerwort,
words born from a common tongue.
English is most practical
when it is rustic and colloquial.
Lions tooth, priests crown,
moles salad and pee-a-bed.
‘Swine snout’ snor...
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Categories:
damply, poetry,
Form: Free verse
We Got Amplified
...Hired first as your band's assistant
Adonis with bonus warmest manner
Smile left me gooey, I couldn't resist it
Fluent guitar fingers sparked my enamour
Liasing with music gurus was realms apar...
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Categories:
damply, appreciation, beach, beautiful, boyfriend,
Form: Rhyme
Clouds of July
...It's been a cloudy, flat July
Confined by brittle yellow grass
Crooked fingers of tattered brass
Misty draped mornings, damply dry
A breath of heat escapes the chill
To stir dull blooms, waxy ...
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Categories:
damply, nature, rain, stars, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Wind and Rain
...A wheezing help'ng jolt floats daintily
As raindrops tumble on from the sky
While the earth snickers mischievously
In squalls that rant in the windy eye
Treetops influence, the move of bree...
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Categories:
damply, nature,
Form: Quatrain
The Picnic
...The little pygmy named Pixie Poggly was quirky queenly quaintly and quickly, but rarely ever really did much can't you see.
Until one day, a raunchy rascal quaintly and shrewdly, Skinny and slippe...
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Categories:
damply, adventure, celebration, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Alliteration
As I Lay
...On bed I lay, just staring at the ceiling
And watching the fan rotate damply
Like the propeller of a wounded plane.
Bedridden for three days by fever.
The rotation of the fan makes my head
Go...
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Categories:
damply, hyperbole, sick,
Form: Narrative
Headache
...The day has been too long.
The promise of a scented dawn
Lost its fulfilment in the dazzling brilliance
Of a hot, bright sun
And the tingle of a moment’s rapture
Flowed rapidly into the throbbin...
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Categories:
damply, freedom, success,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For Spring
...Since spring forgot to come and winter stayed,
My garden is untilled, seeding delayed.
A sodden March ran damply through each day.
I hope for April to remove the gray.
Each April is reserved fo...
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Categories:
damply, nature, spring, beauty, april,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Over Done
...when timely, her karma caramelizes
again my wanting muse appears
lovely texts brown to terse chastises
to say her allotment is in arrears
recipe read, were ingredients omitted
so the pie comes...
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Categories:
damply, food, lost love
Form: Sonnet
Read This Fast!
...So we’re going on a picnic with the pygmy, Pixie Poggly, being the quirky queenly
quaintly quickly person she is and her friend a raunchy rascal reverently named
Andy Bailey. As you remember he w...
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Categories:
damply, adventure, animals, confusion, funny,
Form: Alliteration
Pithead Days
...It is the solemn evening song that drifts,
into the valley cup, from the saucer of the moon,
and spreads in wings of darkness, nightshade breath;
arising as molecules of black oil, up from the pit...
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Categories:
damply, history, people, places, sad,
Form: Verse