Wild Birds
...Endangered penguins on the ice.
Small tuxedo wearing waiters.
Keep the party warm, in a trice
they'll need gaiters....
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Categories:
gaiters, natural disasters, political, pollution,
Form: Personification
Self Help Addict Needles Unsuspecting Reader
...Self help addict needles unsuspecting reader
Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow
scouting abo...
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Categories:
gaiters, 12th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Old Town Past
...OLD TOWN PAST
Gone: the Market where cows sheep and pigs brought telling perceptions
The images, noises and smells of the farms to the town
The tweeded farmers with leathery limbs and faces
And...
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Categories:
gaiters, history,
Form: Rhyme
View From the Bridge
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
From the bridge, track the ghosts of line, goods yard, Old Town Station
Where we lingered and noted the numbers of each passing train
Web of steel and of steam entwined vil...
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Categories:
gaiters, nostalgia,
Form: Elegy
Old Town Elegy
...OLD TOWN ELEGY
The bridge still spans the road - with what design?
The rail that once crossed Ridgeway and vale to the sea
Erased and gone, with scarce residual sign
And barely more trace tha...
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Categories:
gaiters, nostalgia,
Form: Elegy
Kare Adenegan
...Kare Adenegan
I love the city of Coventry ‘cos it’s disability friendly,
Since it houses Great Britain’s national disabled college,
As Hereward resides there with insight, policies bendy,
To...
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Categories:
gaiters, body, courage, desire, race,
Form: Quatrain
Gemma Prescott
...The club event at the Paralympics,
Is unique only to the Paralympics,
And is for people with cerebral palsy,
Or for the brain injured traumatically.
It weighs 14oz and is 5 or 6cm in width,...
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Categories:
gaiters, body, desire, education, happiness,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Recollections From the Golden Cree I
...I know of a river of more than average
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily sought -
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Categories:
gaiters, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
The Manchester Ship Canal - Part Two
...Stilled again across the canals broadening
Girth;
Mesh cages of rock-filled Gabions
Reinforcing patches of exposed and arid earth,
Reflecting the glints that gleefully
Twist and dance in the h...
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Categories:
gaiters, history, travel,
Form: Rhyme