Long Doddle Poems

(*The Gift)
This here is a side trip, nothing more,
To our country home far and away.
Grandparents own one by the seashore,
This a gift, gramps in-law and mentor,
They raised teen/gramps, not a runaway.

Gramps helped older sis and...

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Every word, sentence and paragraph has three main components.  Each one has a beginning, a middle, and an ending.  On All Poetry there are two groups specializing in brevity.  Pure brevity and...

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An Auld Scottish Matelot on Lockdown in Malta
 
The Maltese Government says we are not to go oot
 A mere doddle to us auld yins who have been aboot
Cod War, Falklands, Gulf War and more
Assume...

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Woke up this morning feeling fine,
looked in the mirror at this body of mine,
Said to myself, you're such a disgrace,
I can hardly bear to look you in the face.

Get out there, get some exercise,
Said I'm...

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Yepper-doddle, today I’ll use my own noddle.         
My prized antique frame sustained a despised bust.    
Wanting to show my man the tough dough in...

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A red hibiscus bloomed 
In the backyard yesterday
Reminding me of my mother 
And things she used to say.  
Like, “Oh, look at that butterfly
And the color of its wings,” and 
“Don’t you just love...

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We've all had them at one time or another.
Exciting career, fabulous home, or maybe something other.
As children, girls playing dress up may become a model.
Boys on their three wheelers learn that racers do not doddle.

Having...

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Congratulations you’ve done it!
And with flying colours too.
But then we knew you could do it
We had every faith in you.
Although your nerves were jangling
And your tummy wouldn’t settle,
We knew once you took it to task
You’d...

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We all have one in our lives, someone better than you,
not much to be done about it, in shades of blue,
where did he get the lines from, was it God-given?
Maybe, to keep you in place...

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I took a pen and  piece of paper
Looked at the blank page before my eyes
Thoughts came in hurried nano seconds
 Nothing captured or captivated the mind

The pen twirled in my fingers
Round and round like...

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Sitting by the beach the lights of yesterday grow dim 
while the calming waves of terranas caress my reverie,  
the hotting sands bequeath their perfect light;   
A lull in time, a moment...

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My charges are both off school.
"What shall we do today?"
"Can we please go to Jesters,
The day's all dull and grey."

So I'm in a soft play centre,
There's a cacophony of sound,
Children, screaming, shrieking,
My head's starting to...

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Too late Cock, too late, dawn missed.
Your 'cock-a-doddle do' laments in the mist!
For your alarm is set too late to matter,
Too late, to make selfish greed smash and shatter.

In days gone by, humankind once believed,
That...

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In the early morning dawn a garden walker 
shivers, like a rose  upon dew ground  
drops of silence enter neath' a watchful gaze   
as I wonder where the sun is 
I...

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Wearing a beautiful girdle
Treating digging a hill a doddle
And still see, remains fettle;
Eats grapes or pineapple,
Of keeping records capable.
Her work unexplainable;
Devotion makes a castle
Removes all sort of cattle
And forms school’s title.
All for her is easily...

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A beautiful and sweet girdle
Collecting it is quite doddle
Counting is like a hot fettle
Touching it is a bit brittle.
Let be the Geeta or the Bible,
Let be grapes or pineapple,
Importance of money able
Is not be explainable.
Money...

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