Dunking Poems - Poems about Dunking

Cucking-stools A ballad, dating from about 1615, called "The Cucking of a Scold", illustrates the punishment inflicted to women whose behavior made them be identified as "a Scold" Then was the Scold herself, In a wheelbarrow brought, Stripped naked to the smock, As in that case she ought: Neats tongues about her neck Were hung in open show; And thus unto the cucking...

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Yum! Sugars and butter - cream them together. White and brown mix ‘round. Flour, salt, baking powder, vanilla…fond scent… add chips, scoop, wait - while they bake. choc’late chip cookie broke in half into his cup - splash of milk in eye grandma and grandson munching on cookies our laughs are grand too…splashes occur in and outside ;) grandma runs off…he asks: “are you writing a poem?” “Of course!” she...

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dunking one toe into the lake before jumping in published in my photobook A TOUR OF ASHBY LAKE, 2020 posted on September 6, 2019...

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“Is dunking dangerous, Uncle Jack?” “Of course not!” the captain said. He dunked his donut in his coffee to demonstrate. “Dunking is a great way to eat your food,” he told his nephew, Slim. “You dunk your peanut butter cookies in your milk, don’t you?” Slim nodded. “I dunk potato chips in my tomato soup, don’t I?” Jack...

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It’s time for tea and dunking A crisp Digestive biscuit But before immersion into the hot beverage And to aid entry into my mug I snap the biscuit in half The contours of my broken biscuit Remind me of a Norwegian coastline With their fiords , coves , peninsulas and inlets I wonder whether the snapped shape is unique Or whether another dunker has...

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When fat people go skinny dipping it's called chunky dunking Very appropriate I'd say, but kinda nasty such dubbing Can't all be a skinny-ma-links At least your body doesn't stink Fat people don't smell too but I'll let you do the judging...

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DUNKING ONE'S BISCUIT . . . Dunking one’s biscuit is more than a flippin’ skilled art When getting it to one’s mouth without it falling apart Timing is all-important here it needs to be not too soft As you lift it from the teacup over to your mouth cross Get it right and the winning mouth - gets...

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