Gboko Gives Chase
...In Gboko, where the dust motes dance and play,
A town, a city, a people, some would say.
What defines its spirit, a riddle, a quest,
With a gait too familiar, putting all to the test.
"Gboko!" ...
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Categories:
lager, africa, culture, funny, happiness,
Form: Narrative
Wind Of Chance
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Wind Of Chance
The billowing wind
rendered alluring melodies
luring many men
thirsty for his fate
each beholding his cup
full of frothing lager
concealing the lethal dregs
making...
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Categories:
lager, adventure, longing,
Form: Light Verse
Shokpartogai
...My birthplace is Shokpartogai, my golden cradle,
Here I arrived, opening the door to this world wide.
The snowstorm paused, holding its breath inside,
When hear the cry of a baby struggling to sur...
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Categories:
lager, children,
Form: Ballad
That Friday Feeling
...that Friday feeling calls near noon
with thoughts of lager capped by foam
and dreams this work-day will end soon
which gives your mind a mood to roam
to favored joints, where with the guys
you...
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Categories:
lager, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Soccer
...I want to feel the ground swell
to share it
Saturday, comes too soon
drowns the afternoon
and see City demoted for fair play
10,000 plastic cups
a river of lager streams
Its not that I'm afra...
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Categories:
lager, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Yule Fence
...Allow me to go back and rewind our time as friends
When I promised myself I'd never let you or anyone in
Especially the stereotypical people in your community
Where I believed in your heart I'd ...
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Categories:
lager, boyfriend,
Form: Rhyme
The Elfin War
...I told my boss this was a job I didn’t relish
Reports so far deemed this Elfin war rather hellish.
Troops had crossed the border and entered the valley.
So far we didn’t have a death or injury tal...
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Categories:
lager, war,
Form: Rhyme
12 Days of Aussie Christmas
...On the 1st day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
A koala in a gum tree
On the 2nd day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Two parrakeets.
On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
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Categories:
lager, drink,
Form: Lyric
He Cut All My Hair
...Went for a "HAIR CUT" at the local barber
Must have misunderstood probably into the lager
He cut “ALL” my hair
Not just "ONE" up there
Called him a bozo as I made my departure...
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Categories:
lager, funny,
Form: Limerick
The Class Act
...The Class Act
It dawned on me to get ahead in life, I had to speak
proper the way words are laid out in books
It is hard to talk posh I had to write down what
I was going to say when meeting f...
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Categories:
lager, best friend, confidence, education,
Form: Bio
The Grime Reaper
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The Grim Reaper, stirs from another well earned day of heavenly sleep
From within the bowels of this cavernous earth, from his cave so deep
His cloak and scythe, been cast to one side in an unc...
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Categories:
lager, humorous, inspirational, write,
Form: Narrative
Web Dreams
...The male of the black widow spider species
offers its head to be eaten
by the lager female arachnid.
Is this sex, love, or blind instinct?
We need a different mind-set
a new understanding.
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Categories:
lager, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bridgerton
...Dear readers, please dwell awhile
Sit here a moment I pray
I wish to speak a little
of what and how people say
Surely the ladies here
would wish it to be thus
if everyone spoke and acted
as ...
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Categories:
lager, appreciation, desire, humorous, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
He Cut All My Hair
...Went for a hair cut at the local barber
Must have misunderstood probably into the lager
He cut “ALL” my hair
Not just one up there
So I called him a bozo as I made my departure...
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Categories:
lager, hair,
Form: Limerick
Bartender Oh Bartender
...Bartender Oh Bartender
(a stout rendition of O Captain! My Captain!
Perfect rhythmic rhyme with tonic
when the doth ale).
Mine eyes espy the glory per the ending
of another work day beckon B...
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Categories:
lager, absence, addiction, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
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