Long Good humour Poems

YES ABOUT A DRESS

El, please come shopping with me today,
He knew she would ask him anyway,
Sure Honey, he immediately lit
A cigarette, we’ll leave in a bit!
Shopping with Jen wasn’t too much fun,
She was fussy, and...

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An ordinary Australian from an ordinary country place
Who rallied to the flag's call with god's good grace
He was one of the 33rd Battalion "New England's Own"
Into this swirling maelstrom they were duly thrown
The Great War...

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I must apologize to all those who claim
that they have "The Greatest Mom in the World!"
For I know that they are all misinformed
Please jury, don't think me cruel 
but my mom always taught me to...

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"His Name is Calciatore"

His name is Calciatore

he loves to follow me
from room to room 
he’s exceptionally 
well groomed

even handsome,
one might say,
he can be quite serious
yet, he loves it 

when I flirt 
shamelessly with him, 
day...

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Awake, ye sleepy, coop-bound souls!
Unbutton your boredom, unfasten your goals!
For glory’s not found in the stiff upper sash—
It lives in the squelch of the Chicken Splash.

With feathers all fluffed like a powdered wig,
She struts like...

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I was a stoner in a coma mercifully sweet
up for good humour and friendly greet
changed into someone more likely to beat
thump kick and stomp fighting the weak

I had stoner friends with paranoid brains
and jealous mates...

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"Destination: New Covenant" 

When we arrived
at our destination,
the place they called
"New Covenant",
we were assigned 
fresh armour.

we thought the war 
left long and far behind us;

of course, 

our ranks had changed,
but our allegiance 
for saving contracts
in...

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A Beautiful Woman

Beauty which is skin deep is fragile and easily destroyed
But character means power which sustains thru’ tides
A sight to behold – stunning, fabulous, striking, alluring
With no grace, charisma, expression she is reckoned as...

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just sitting here in the quiet of the night,
Looking back on my life to see what I did right.
Hard to define how some things happen,
As a kid I was hassled, for what, I don't know,
The...

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they should have a stand up comic
who talks about what they would do
if they had a record deal
to make one cd
that everyone would benefit from
a cd soo well thought out in its perfection
it would be...

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I’m faffing about on Facebook
Been avoiding it for years
What began as curiosity will
Doubtless end in tears
Hear no speak no see no
Evil learned in conversation
All that knowledge lost in
Two dimensional translation
Like me, share me, follow
All my...

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Loin cloth draped around his anorexic body the Buddha

Searched for the Middle Way between Nothing and All

Counted his blessings and figs as his thoughts focussed

In meditation for humility compassion and lasting peace

The tree of life’s...

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Hassan harbours hard-worn hardship in his heavy homeless heart

Drones dereliction devastation and dire disintegration of daring dreams

Dear daughter dead at dawn Delisiha demised dismembered decapitated 

Harbingers of hell in heaven heaving with helter-skelter and hatred


Skinny...

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Oh the tears from the child as her dolls hair is caught in the spindle
Her little face awash as she tries to rescue it 
The little rag doll, her only friend was whisked away so...

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as the smoke clears, I look up at the sky, 
seeing the glisten of the first star reveal itself 
to human eyes. There is no moon, just the fain
t glow of the sun at which...

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It’s an old trick in the book
To count sheep till you fall asleep
But Mr. Insomnia stays up late
It seems he wants to be my date!
He seems to have alternate plans
He makes me do things I...

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Don’t just raise your glass, stand up to cheers
Until each and every one gets audibly clinked
Repeating Ike-ism’s stretching memories years
Keeps the good ones up front and spirits linked

Not so subtly cheat (just a little) in...

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There is always forward for outings,
Always a reverse if it is missed at all,
But forward in things conjugal ever.

I have been associated with a woman,
She has an in-built, reverse-forward button.
When in good humour the forward...

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Chicken and Fado

 They eat a lot of roasted chicken with chips
in Portugal, once it was a rare food now it is eaten
with gusto most days, it is cheap and filling.
What sets Portugal apart is...

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Wit and jest can give more oomph to heart and soul,
Ideas and vivid images can bring zest,
Touch and humour can blaze a pathway made whole.


Niche fond play that laughter brings to court fine quest,
Open all...

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...to my Mum


She was always in the kitchen, 
kneading pastry with good humour,
blending garnishes and gossip
as she plied her magic wand
and it was dinner time.

Struggling with algebra 
I'd agonize for hours, 'til frustration
got the best...

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...to My Mum


She was always in the kitchen, 
kneading pastry with good humour,
blending garnishes and gossip
as she plied her magic wand
and it was dinner time.

Struggling with algebra 
I'd agonize for hours, 'til frustration
got the best...

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...to My Mom


She was always in the kitchen, 
kneading pastry with good humour,
blending garnishes and gossip
as she wove her magic wand
and it was dinner time.

Struggling with algebra 
I'd agonize for hours, 'til frustration
got the best...

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The Final Countdown
I watch Countdown when on tv it comes 
for the chatter the conundrums and sums
Sad to see presenter Nick Hewer go
he has been a delight on every show.

Susie is magic with words she's...

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I saw students placing flags on the resting places of our honoured dead……

Remembrance Day 2024

The flags flutter from grave to grave
Marking the lying place of our honoured brave
The magpies warble on the breeze
And the smell...

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