Christmas Day Near Massacre
...When we were kids, kids we were without no pain or fears,
we’d do the ‘devilish’ of things to impress our peers.
The biggest dare or bravest feat would for the pack be tried.
Lord knows now when I...
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Categories:
gelignite, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Coober Pedy Miner
...The diagnosis was that he wouldn’t live
That the cancer would get him in the end
He had been an opal miner for 20 years
Living in Coober Pedy away from Europe
And all it meant at the end of W...
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Categories:
gelignite, death,
Form: Free verse
Manchester Uk
...Manchester City Centre, UK, 1996, a large white van did stop
Two men got out and ran away, then they blew our City up
The van was full of gelignite, enough to fill a shop
With thousands of people ...
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Categories:
gelignite, england, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Midnight Angling
...Throw away your lines and hooks,
For to catch a fish at the dead of night,
You don’t need those ‘how to books’
Just use a stick of gelignite....
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Categories:
gelignite, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Ripping Christ
...Holier than thou,
sacred as a cow
anointed with margarine spread;
a Sunday to rest,
some socks and a vest
and a penchant for laying in bed.
Sicker than sick
and thicker than thick,
drug...
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Categories:
gelignite, allegory, history, social, time,
Form: Verse
Shadows of Night
...I once saw a lion alive in a grave,
Chewing dirt with the jaws of a heroic slave,
But fight as he might he could not understand
How a king could fall prey to the weight of the land.
I once saw ...
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Categories:
gelignite, allegory, death, history, life,
Form: Verse