Simon Le Bon
...Simon Le Bon English singer who rocked the eighties
Three Ivor Novello Awards British Academy, maties
Duran Duran's lead singer and lyricist
Flair for poetry my favorite empiricist...
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Categories:
ivor, appreciation, celebrity, character, muse,
Form: Clerihew
Clerihew Hitchens
...Ivor Hitchens a post-cubist
from figuration to an abstractist
Often on long horizontl format
simple elements so abstract...
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Categories:
ivor, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Name Shame - Bawdy Word Play
...Guest speaker was Mr Shaw-Twilley
I guffawed, his surname’s so silly
I slipped him a fiver
To say my name’s Ivor
It sounded like I’ve a Short willy
N B Shaw-Twilley is a real surn...
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Categories:
ivor, humorous, word play,
Form: Limerick
The Word Play Guest List
...Pray silence for the presentation of our guests!
Representing Age UK, Sir Gerry Hatrick
The Right Honourable Rhoda Bull, her brother, Eddie Bull and their mother, Lady Biddy Bull
From the Fr...
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Categories:
ivor, humor, humorous, word play,
Form: List
The Ballad of Robin and Edna
...Edna Clouds, dreamer, catch-me-if-you-can, hunted by police, together with her man.
T’was Robin Banks, that set her heart a throbbin’, a needy chap who drove the wheels, alias reliant Robin.
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Categories:
ivor, cheer up, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
The Mouth
...Be careful what you put in here
for soon it’s going to disappear
and start its journey through your gut
into the place that you then put
upon a seat in smallest room
where then expelled it makes...
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Categories:
ivor, food,
Form: Rhyme
Open Pit
...Heaven quakes as death draws near
As Halloween bring back its fright,
Lifting the veil where demons spawn
Lets Hell free to rape this night.
Occult terrors from the pit
Who wear the devil’s mark...
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Categories:
ivor, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Night
...Spirits that goad have an unspoken code?
yes they certainly have that... you are right.
They come hale and hearty to join in the party
for this is their own special night.
No cause for fright o...
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Categories:
ivor, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween
...I'm scared of ghosties, scared of ghouls,
I won't go out tonight.
I'll hide under my blankets,
and tremble there in fright.
I'm not a silly little kid
who's nightmares make him squeal.
I'm an e...
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Categories:
ivor, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Dreams
...How pleased we are that you're not dead,
you stayed inside and went to bed?
Alas, I had to go out twice
and met some folk who weren't too nice.
With eggs in hand, they didn't care
that older peo...
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Categories:
ivor, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Woe Is Me
...Woe is me I’m lost not found
my feet not planted on the ground,
life is wrong and never right
poor me must always see no light.
Shadows overcast my soul
and nothing ever leaves me whole
I lac...
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Categories:
ivor, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
The End Is Nigh
...The end of the world is now nigh
the signs are all clear in the sky.
With tempest and storm
and tsunamis that warn
of disasters that leave all forlorn.
When the earth says enough is enough
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Categories:
ivor, death, god, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Referendum
...My father fought in China and India as well,
my brothers served their country when Northern Ireland was in Hell,
I spent years in Malayasia when conflict then arrived
and of our troops who went to...
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Categories:
ivor, community, freedom, rights, society,
Form: Rhyme
Home Alone
...For forty six years now we've shared our home,
but for only the first months together alone,
moved into our own place the day we were wed,
and for forty six years we've both shared the same bed.
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Categories:
ivor, children, family, home, house,
Form: Rhyme
Food For Thought
...Science yet can’t find the link
to what it is that makes us think,
to what it is that guides our way
and makes our choices day by day.
No proof that good or bad exist,
no evidence upon their l...
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Categories:
ivor, faith, games, god, life,
Form: Rhyme
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