Shuffling the Deck to Fall Asleep, Perchance
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Falling asleep is such sweet sorrow!
Alas, lullabies are so 'Yesterday''!
It started with counting sheep:
Knit one, Purl One,
Knit two Together,
Promenading One by One,
Fluffy Cute Wee littl...
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Categories:
duffing, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Six String Love Affair:
...Six Dean Markley strings,
How my Maton sings,
Resting upon my bridge and nut,
Watch me closely watch me strut.
With my Maton body, I caress,
Creating electric dreams to mess,
Hammer o...
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Categories:
duffing, guitar, music,
Form: Rhyme
Shara's Christmas Journey
...Lust of the flesh is sin.
Sin is lust of the flesh.
Try repeating this one once.
What word was miss-pronounced?
Hearing is believing.
With fellowship and greeting.
Duffing our sacred billow cap...
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Categories:
duffing, anti bullying, beauty, bereavement,
Form: Lyric
Cubbie Worker 1955
...Cubbie worker…
So you worked on an out station on Cubbie…
Saw the cattle tracks and also the sheep …
You were only a poor boundary rider …
On your straw bed the hut you did sleep…
The Manage...
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Categories:
duffing, angst
Form: Ballad
When the Evidence Went Missing [cont'D]
...“All their comings and their goings were so closely scrutinised
as the prosecution’s trump card was the evidence they prized.
Though the wily prosecutor gathered facts to build his case,
some...
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Categories:
duffing, funny, life, old, morning,
Form: Rhyme
When the Evidence Went Missing
...I was perched upon a wooden bench beneath a bottle tree
when this worn out wiry ringer stopped to rest his gammy knee.
I’d been touring through the outback and had sought to sit a spell
while t...
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Categories:
duffing, funny, life, old, me,
Form: Rhyme