A More Beautiful Shell
...Some way from the Firth of Forth
A shoal of glittering mackerel
Swirls and sways
Swells with the sea from silver to black
Flashes white and back to silver and grey
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Categories:
gannet, adventure, animal, earth, environment,
Form: Verse
A Night On the Beach
...A mottled crab scuppers its sea legs
in fluorescent foam.
Blue pods rattle on green tides.
Bladder wrack, Mermaid’s Hair
washing tangled ankles.
There are voices in my open mouth,
they roll ove...
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Categories:
gannet, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wildlife 23
...Wildlife 23
An exceedingly sleek looking gannet
Flew to Hythe from his nest site in Thanet
He said "gosh it's so quaint!
I think I might faint!
For it looks like a far distant planet!...
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Categories:
gannet, bird, funny,
Form: Limerick
Culling2
...CULLING2
The culling of the Kangaroo,
has been here a hundred years or two,
And they are there in millions yet,
Cos they'll out breed you blue,
(we got Kangaroo plenty in Australia)
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Categories:
gannet, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Categories:
gannet, bird, sea,
Form: Haiku
Gannet Test
...yes childhood memories are the best ,
before the unfair Gannet test,
how unfair the world becomes,
to Tweedle de an Dum,
till anger blinds the best,
brain dead like me are some?
so get it...
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Categories:
gannet, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Social Injustice
...Social Injustice
Purging Purgatory holds a few,
of numb nuts on the planet,
reprobates could make you spew ,
like a bloody half baked Gannet,
social justice is sinking low,
where the LNP ...
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Categories:
gannet, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Seaplane
...SEAPLANE
Frail silvered bird of man’s invent
In air or drift its time is spent.
My heart flies high on lofty wings
That listen while the current sings.
Not hindered by the traffic’s clog
Nor cripple...
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Categories:
gannet, inspirational, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Hell
...subtle hell world,
has the smell,
of nasty on this planet,
no shortage of murder,
slaughter spells,
just suffering of poor mortal, well,
a hell world symetry,
more beastiality...
by some...
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Categories:
gannet, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Phases of the Moon
...Phases of the Moon
A white horse comes to me in trance
The four beasts usher him
Armageddon with a bloody lance
Death’s bony hands are thin
Do we dare to go to sleep?
Disasters coming thick...
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Categories:
gannet, adventure
Form: Rhyme