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
FETTLE 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
Journey
...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
Wind 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
A 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
Opulent 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
Chilly 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
The 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
Supple 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
Fettle 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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