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Fettle Poems - Poems about Fettle

Was it all just a dream

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Wakey wakey pinch me shake me don’t forsake me..was it just a trip..a mistake a half baked fake dream during a kip or after 46 days booked can’t be overlooked everyone letting rip..totally cooked...
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Categories: fettle, sports,
Form: I do not know?

Tandoori or Tangerine Tan shorts no2

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Satsuma Tumour

Sense of Humour?

That Groomer Rumour


Cometh the Hour

Cometh the TAN!


People Power Glower should Flower

Grassy brassy knolls

But proles at the polls

Sold t...
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Categories: fettle, political,
Form: I do not know?



Tangerine or Tandoori Tan Man - full version

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Tandoori or Tangerine Tan?

Mister rich lister Blister

Sinister Mandarin Minister


Sin..Spin & Chagrin Talisman

Jaundice scrotum prejudice totem

Podium pandemonium
 
Needs Imodium....
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Categories: fettle, education, political, society,
Form: Free verse

The Draw breaks Bazball Law

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According to Bazball law, deplore the days of yore, hell bent..ignore what went before

Why even mull over a tie..cull every dull lull…do or die super nova…run rates soar…can chase whatever they ...
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Categories: fettle, sports,
Form: Free verse

Biscuits

...What‘s better than a biscuit?

Hard to debunk 

Treasure trunk funk 

Should you let

It get wetter

Would you dare risk it?


The trick a quick dunk

Or could flunk..flick..kerplunk.....
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Categories: fettle, food, happiness, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberFETTLE THE METAL

...There comes a young lad from abroad.
He wants a car but can’t afford.
So he gets scrap metal
And this he does fettle.
Then calls it a Honda Accord. 

He took it out for a test-run.
At first th...
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Categories: fettle, car,
Form: Limerick

ODE TO THE YOUNG ADULT CANCER SURVIVOR

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I stood at the threshold 
Of a promising life,
Ready to step out bold,
Face challenges and strife.

I wanted to soar,
Like an eagle in the sky.
Eager to conquer more, 
To reach really hig...
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Categories: fettle, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberJourney

...Our outside road may have a billion steps, but the inward journey has just one: this step. By poet.

                        The geese fly back to the light ove...
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Categories: fettle, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, bird,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWind Is Pounding In My Heart

...'wind is pounding in my heart'

It tears across the steppes and plain, it guides my mind and eases pain
Whithin the yurt, upon the road, it whets my mind; eases the loads
I've rode it's Breast te...
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Categories: fettle, appreciation, assonance, beauty, celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Tango On the Lake

...A Tango on the Lake
When Hooded Grebe are wooing a mate
Magic’s made in tangoes on the lake 
Lovebirds perform synchronised in tune
Bewitched beneath a bedazzling ...
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Categories: fettle, bird, dance, desire, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOpulent Relic Meander

...The sensitive brilliance of a lighted flame. 
Yet, filled by vitality, will spark and inflame. 
I had been ashes, encouraged by your presence. 
At first, faint flares, yet before lo...
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Categories: fettle, analogy, beauty, happiness, love,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberChilly Cheeks

...[Inspired - with much gratitude - by Jan’s poem
There’s No Knocking On Heaven’s Loo Door
and Caren and Tom’s comments on it]

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The toilets in heaven are cold on yo...
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Categories: fettle, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThe Mule

...Thick bubbles of tea leaves, whistling in the kettle. 
Most times, the mule was a symbol of obstinacy.
I don't mean bored but yet didn't grasp the fettle. 
We're stuck here, so we'l...
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Categories: fettle, analogy, character, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberSupple Whisper

...Our thoughts are whispered in the cool night breeze. 
I often fall into this snare when I opine around your demise. 
The breeze whispers, and the spirit hangs tight for my appease. 
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Categories: fettle, allusion, beauty, childhood, destiny,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFettle Fetal Death Killed Road Kill Sread Out All Around Here-

...a 4 lane bi-way east and west;
first come upon passing of a dead skunk;
Next comes a squirrel
and then another skunk on the north side of the lane;
just there laying on their sides dead as nails;...
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Categories: fettle, analogy, animal, anxiety, crush,
Form: Free verse

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