Wimbledon the menace of celebrity tennis
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Mr Dennis...grimace..what the Dickens is going on...the menace
Inevitability of a celebrity on every terrace at the tennis..
The profanity and insanity of rampant vanity..
The gist..a...
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Categories:
guv, celebrity, society, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Powers That Be
...“So this is your yearly assessment
Pray tell how you feel you have done
Since we made you Head of Progressment
Shaping everything under the Sun.”
“My achievements are way beyond measu...
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Categories:
guv, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Our Very Own Hero
...A flash in the sky had just caught my eye
A man wearing cape and tights quickly sped by
He landed sure footed and that’s when he spoke
“Forsooth, I am verily one super bloke.”
I said, “Ooh, ge...
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Categories:
guv, hero, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Language, Robin
...[Warning - This Acrostic may contain profanity…
I have checked and I couldn’t find any, but, well
something’s just kinda niggling me… honest guv]
Heroes of the ‘super’ variety
Often disguised...
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Categories:
guv, hero,
Form: Acrostic
Benefactor's Nightmare
...Being Aussie and a nomad with a wish to travel far,
there comes a time when money’s scarce no matter who you are.
I was in the north of England when the bank declared I’m broke,
so I went to seek ...
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Categories:
guv, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Busted - the Human Levy
...One world in a trillion
Where everything clicked
In a Goldilocks zone
Where a switch had been flicked
Busted
Perfection soon rusted
When late party crashers
Were grab it and smashers
For ...
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Categories:
guv, earth, environment,
Form: Rhyme
City Vs State
...The mayor and guv’nor did clash,
Both feeling empowered and brash
And we all await
In city and state
To find out whose credit will crash.
The mayor says schools will be closed
‘Til September,...
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Categories:
guv, power,
Form: Limerick
No Haircuts For the Duration
...Alas, due to the insidious coronavirus situation,
The guv ordered barber shops closed for the duration!
Now, I suppose that is of no concern to a bald-headed bloke,
But since I still have a few ...
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Categories:
guv, angst, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Cuomo's Daily Update
...Through it all, this crazy season,
There has been one voice of reason:
Andrew Cuomo, New York’s guv,
A Democrat we all can love.
He gives us info, up-to-date
And all he does communicate
Is do...
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Categories:
guv, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Bus Or Taxi
...The wheels on the London bus go round and round, till the driver crashes it Tequila style. Everyone loses their heads, except him. He gets into a Black Bomber taxi and pops open a vodka. Need a lift ...
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Categories:
guv, analogy, city, community, travel,
Form: Free verse
Spots
...A leopard found a shepherd who was looking after lambs
The shepherd had some sandwiches with different flavour jams
The leopard feeling peckish thought he’d steal one tiny sheep
So he snuck behind...
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Categories:
guv, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Reindeer Strike
...Rudolph's nose shines frosty bright,
Relations will be cool this night
He raps a hoof on Santa's door
And says we feel we should earn more
If we're to work on Christmas day
We must insist on d...
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Categories:
guv, christmas, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Age Doesn'T Matter When You'Re In Love
...Susie teetered into Bill’s office, wearing a skintight miniskirt
Sat on Bill’s knee for dictation. She was an outrageous flirt
Soon Bill was smitten and couldn’t resist her ample charms...
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Categories:
guv, age, humorous, marriage, work,
Form: Rhyme
Spare a Copper
...Spare a copper guv, for many fought for you,
We went to war and many mates died there too.
Buy a Poppy lady, I'm not a beggarman,
The trenches were full when it began.
A penny in the pot if it's ...
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Categories:
guv, giving, humanity, remembrance day,
Form: Rhyme
Borodino Part 1 By Mikhail Lermontov
...Guv, tell me, not without the reason
our Moscow in the fired treason
was burnt and left for French.
Oh, there were fights I see their splendours
so awesome and we have the embers,
No wonder Rus...
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Categories:
guv, anger, conflict, memory, murder,
Form: Heroic Couplet
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