Gammy Poems


SANTA GOT STRANDED IN FLORIDA

...SANTA GOT STRANDED IN FLORIDA

Santa, on an extended vacation in Miami
Heard news that Rudolf’s leg was gammy
It was the middle of December already
And with wine he was feeling unsteady

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Categories: gammy, christmas, scary,
Form: Rhyme

Route 66ish No 17

...Route 66ish No 17

John, a young guy from Miami
Had legs just a little bit gammy,
He would quite often fall
When he shopped in the mall
And land with a 'whomp' on his fanny!...
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Categories: gammy, america, funny,
Form: Limerick


We'Ve Had Enough of Travelling

...We’ve had enough of traveling.



We’ve had enough of travelling
At least by sea and air
The noisy ferry cabins
The crush of Ryanair

Maybe we’ll drive a hundred ‘k’
To hotel or ‘B&B’
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Categories: gammy, age,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberRenown

...Renown

There was a pub in Taunton known world over
And boy did it ever hop, good live music 
uplifted the spirits of the motley crew
or was it the smell from the clouds of smoke?

I tell you ...
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Categories: gammy, appreciation, friendship, society,
Form: Verse

Chinwag Pies

...Chinwag Pies 

A crowd gathers
Where the poor run wild, 
Relentlessly taunting 
An innocent child, 
Scathing, scalding 
Thieving eyes, 
Scrimping, scraping 
Chinwag pies. 

Two a penny 
F...
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Categories: gammy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme


Haunted Years

...Hello and my name is Claire
I’m twenty three years of age and come from nowhere
When I was young my parents moved around the UK,
Every place we travelled I met friends and had expectations to stay...
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Categories: gammy, childhoodme, old, me, old,
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: gammy, funny, life, old, me,
Form: Rhyme
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