WE ARE CANADIAN, EH?
...WE ARE CANADIAN, EH?
We came across the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago.
We didn't linger long up there – 'twas 99 below!
We wandered south while looking for a Timmy's 'round each bend,...
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Categories:
grog, humor, pride, song,
Form: Rhyme
A Strange Disease
...A strange disease is rolling coast to coast
and leaves its victims on their knees in fog.
The weaker mind feels the affliction most;
next, those with an affinity for grog.
Some say a brain worm...
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Categories:
grog, sick,
Form: Sonnet
bend o' the gunnel
....
that's the skull and
well
one bone
me lady
never yer mind wench
over th...
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Categories:
grog, adventure, allegory, passion,
Form: Epyllion
arrrr black az pitch
....
'tiz
not mine dialect
'tiz the thick this
coffee
past mine lips
it slid
thick
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Categories:
grog, emotions, extended metaphor, humor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Sipping his Warm Gnome Grog
...Sipping his warm tasty gnome grog in the snow
We see troll’s size fourteen feet and we laugh at his ugly toe
Why doesn’t he wear shoes or boots someone says.
Too warm blooded me thinks, says my co...
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Categories:
grog, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Some Call It Beer But To Me It's Called Grog
...~
A broken torpedo got wedged in my eye,
making me squint out some tea
Laughed at a submarine sauntering by,
hoagies afloat on the sea
Gathering minnows from dams ‘bout to break,
op...
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Categories:
grog, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Poor, Poor Freddie
...Freddie, tipsy, and it showed
Freddie lived across the road
Freddie knew she would explode
Freddie was a big, fat toad
Frannie waited in the bog
Frannie worried ‘bout the fog
Freddie, out and...
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Categories:
grog, animal, nursery rhyme,
Form: Monorhyme
The State of the Onion
...The puppet pranced
The strings frayed
A jackass brayed
As poppin’ hoppys
Sat and rose
In ballet dance
Of well browned nose
Applause and “clapture”
of Stockholm rapture
A mocking strut
Of fa...
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Categories:
grog, angst, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Fiddler and Frog
...the Fiddler played and sang a tune
all the while the sun became moon
Sir Frog was dancing
and sometimes prancing
but then the music died too soon
“Fiddler,” cried Frog, “why do you stop?
I’...
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Categories:
grog, animal, cute, fun, humor,
Form: Limerick
All Hallows' Evening
...Cold sunken ground does not deny the heat of death
Nor pumpkins dull the horror of this hallowed eve
of ghoulish creatures basking in the fetid breath
condemned to roam together yet alone to griev...
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Categories:
grog, dark,
Form: Sonnet
The Figurative Nail Hit On the Hirsute Covered Head
...The figurative nail hit on the hirsute covered head!
Eventually vices will witness me crow king
cough'n affliction caw hearse courtesy
smok'n since me yay high,
hence appellation (mountain) wh...
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Categories:
grog, 12th grade, absence, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Twas the Night Before Cexmas
...This poem was submitted for a work competition at CEX
Twas the first day of CeXmas, and all through the land
The taverns were a buzz as grog was in hand,
Participants were giddy about the quests...
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Categories:
grog, character, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Sweetwaters Music Festival
...Far off the beaten track and trail
on quest for music’s Holy Grail
led pilgrims on biblical scale
more than can be counted.
With midsummer sun on our cheek
in tents to shel...
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Categories:
grog, adventure, music,
Form: Rhyme
Crimes and Misdemeanours
...Behold the cold village Baskerville fog
and holiday summer fields bundling hay,
the Officers Club back door buying grog
till all our money slowly pissed away!
And lock and load shoot to k...
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Categories:
grog, youth,
Form: Sonnet
More Beautiful Than Pogs
...In the world's biggest collection
of pogs, there is not one pog
As beautiful as my dog
Nor has there ever been a hog
As beautiful as my dog
Nor e'er a frog upon its log
Not even its youngest po...
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Categories:
grog, beauty, dog, drink, games,
Form: Rhyme
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