Long Litres Poems

UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers

If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s out-of-stock -...

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A Coffee Merchant was the first man to find,
The corpse as he started off on his daily grind!
What he saw filtered through, so he had grounds
To send for the Police, to investigate what he'd found!

He’d...

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MY 62ND BIRTHDAY
It’s my birthday and I’m in my 62nd year
I’ve shared the laughter and the tears
I love birthdays and there’s been a lot
I love all the cake so far that I have got
I did...

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I am dreaming the past
Past when KBC was the only station
Each morning started with the anthem of the nation
We had to know your intention
Before saying anything through the station
Each anchor had a level of education
While...

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A nurse has washed six patients; it's a busy day,
And now she has just watched a lovely lady die,
Next she’s going to bed-bath the woman next door,
No time for her own needs, can’t let herself...

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It appeared on the doorpost as a Cyclops' smiley face
 For some Cyclops WhatsApp icon, but red-themed application
 Yes gruesome red, in contrast to the expectation
 You would get from a smiley face, even for...

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This is for Andrea D. who asked for my Cow Gas poems.  I have at least one more to 
post.  Look for California Cows.    Mike

Cow Gas

I’m putting my cows all...

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Hannah Crockroft has cerebral palsy from her birth, 
And having CP myself, she’s kind of special to me, 
Because CP is not derided anymore, much, as alien, 
But is called brain damage, not your own...

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The essence was in the V
But I liked gambling with the E
So I tore open my can of milk
And gulped down litres of filth
It was a Monday morning you all
And they had just brought in...

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Twenty two snails were dancing in a line, for they had consumed some wine, the wine had been left by humans in the yard, the glasses full, no breaks, no shards. Safely pulling themselves up...

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I can still smell Mom's homemade soup on the stove,
she always had a pot simmering for us kids to welcome us home;
it was made in this huge soup pot which I inherited,
old, and dinged...

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Beverley is a professional at the Paralympics, 
Because she’s been to five of them including Rio, 
And in London she made the podium’s antics, 
Since she won discus third with a lush glow.

Born the 17th...

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GOOD  FOOD 

         Food to               Egg as     ...

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he was walking along amiably,
unconcerned and all alone,
a group of unknown mafia came along,
an began cajoling teasing him on,
in more ways than one,
he ignored them to full and went about his way,
looking to get out...

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So I sat here under this baobab tree,
Trying to imagine how it gets to live,
Seeing the dry land and suny weather,
Am shocked what makes it grow fruits?

Then I ask myself these questions,
What if am this...

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Think in abundance and abundance will be yours

       The million of stars for you to gaze upon

       The thousands upon thousands of leaves...

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The Election result is a kill-joy
And has a man made a boy:
A result so blunt I’m trying ketamine;
That should my recovery determine 
My BP should’ve been key issue
And its treatment a Toilet Tissue …

A woman...

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My lawyer drives a Jaguar,
a slim and glitzy marque.
He seldom ventures near the Law,
(the work's done by his clerk),
buts sends in bills at Partners Rates;
that avaricious shark.

My Broker's Merc is spanking new;
it takes his fishing...

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A night’s blizzard winter season,
I was waiting there for no reason,
Under the trees of cherry blossom,
There came a beauty so awesome,
Her dazzling sight made me blank,
Words cannot describe her I am so frank,
Whether her skin...

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Hot water crisis

Suddenly no hot water
We didn’t have hot water in my childhood
We had to boil water on a kettle
Pour it into a bowl, add cold water and wash
The vital parts.
It was when it was...

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Anne Dickins

Anne was an endurance cyclist, 
But in 2011 she ruptured her back, 
Which meant that she did enlist, 
Cauda equine syndrome, her yack. 

A physiotherapist cool by profession, 
And a Games Maker in London...

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The materials are shredded into pieces
He takes his measurement with his intuitive Tape
He Lives himself Lost in creative wilderness
He sits in a serene environment ready to receive his imagination
He transforms his history and experience into...

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Life littered with litres of distress and stress.
Uncertainties certain to terminate happiness in our nest

But we chose hope

Darkness lingering over our lingerie in secrecy
Hurts dished out in hot tempers 

Yet we chose hope

Subjected to torture...

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