Long Poms Poems

The First Fleet
by Robert (Bob) Moore

The 26th of January, is called Australia Day
that was when some 10 pound poms, decided they would stay
they had been, for about a week, at a place called Botany Bay
not...

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Most of have heard or read the Adventures of Peter Pan
A boy who never grew up and lived in Never Never Land
The rewritten story goes that Tinkerbell is in love with Pete
but in the original...

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It is time for the game 
With the team the world knows the name 
This year New York State was invited to the feast
When the Bills were chosen as the sacrifice for the statement of...

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OUR TIN POT NAVY so THEY SAID in 1914 Sydney in the first World War 1

In 1914 German cruisers were cut loose 
and Emden she was one…………….…(fired 38lb shells)
the Indian ocean she did for hunting...

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In Syria we fought the French in 1941...
Foreign Legion and the Vichy French an 8 week war was won...
After battle with the slaughter, many bodies where they lay...
Don checked them as he oughta , found...

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Sunderland N for Nuts 461 Squadron
Sunderland fought alone the Battle Of Biscay in.1943
Big old seaplane Sunderland, fought in the Battle Of Biscay
Had 4 engines, would she float, would German cannon make her pay?
Aussies put in...

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Tobruk  Siege

Rommel of the Blitzkrieg 
had Europe overcome
With the Stukas and dive bombing
And the Tanks that overrun

North Africka would see his tanks
il Duce’s troops were beat
Aussies took 20,000 Italians
At Tobruk in stinking heat

In Europe...

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Time is ticking down
I’ve got eighty yards to go
It’s the last game of the season
The fans are sitting down
Our mascot is a clown
And I don’t even know the reason

Coach signals in a play
I get flagged...

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Had a dream about doctors,
     and broken bones, and needles,
All the while listening to 
     Bob Dylan and the Beatles.
Though they never shared the stage
  ...

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The bad days feel like Clouds over a picnic , fog in the crowd, the spinning ground, people pass like vertical white lines of speeding light, this is vertigo, this is the I can't handle...

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pink pims and pom poms
An alabaster in a tight fitting top cannot squeeze into a convertible Mercedes Benz as fitting a box into a circle is not a pleasantry nor a pheasant flap. Peace be...

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Hope was Burrow's substance, where he poured his time, 
Pedalling steadily.
Intended path made smooth for those in legacy line.
Sliced through wiry roots, 
Watchguard Wombat dug safety spaces.

Safety albeit empty, 
claw shortening scooping to prop up...

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Sponsor	Nancy Jones
Contest Name	Things that suck

Lest we forget the Bad decisions …

(Myxo the rabbit steal the Bagmans Bunny),     first use of a deadly weapon
( Cane toads 4 cane beetles,)( 12 atom bombs...

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Last line...
on him black eyes did sit........drat Cricket...Don
It didn't help his hemmaroids,
Cos I downed old Darcy Pitt.
They wouldn't let me bowl,

the nasty game of Cricket.
an out you go hows that!
twisty ball gets ya wicket,
sneaky buggers...

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With accurate placement
aim and precision
take your pick
an advanced weapon system
a marksman
staring down
keeps his eye 
on the target
judging distance
will take his shot

The ultimate assassin
for two lovers touch
with a bipod arrangement
is accurate as such
holding aim
sweetly releasing
from the...

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Bated breath stills Arctic style cruelty
        Clustered lichen mapped boulders crouch 
        Exhale cackles an altitudinous eulogy 
   ...

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We drank cheap beer in a rusted out shed.
Buzzing before our 8:00AM English class.
Trying to be cool- to fit with the "Ins."
Instead, were becoming the wobbling outcasts.
Spinning further out from the golden Ins.

Ah the golden...

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by Bob Moore © 2019
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Three cheers for enthusiasm.
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Shake that booty! Shake that booty!
Pom Poms tittering.

A smile on her perfect pom pom face.
Head cheerleader a white-blond flirt.
Her legs light up her lampshade skirt.

Three cheers for enthusiasm
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Shake...

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Eliza Riddle brushed her hair in silence
long silver strands, sleepy, floating to the floor
Her horn rimmed glasses read the book 
next to her bed
without her
for boredom overtook her when
she thought she guessed the ending.
Eliza did...

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"Memory is a treasure, once lost may never again be found" by poet

As I clean my closet for the last time,
each dress, each coat, I handle tenderly
they remind of a life that once was mine
when...

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OH, CHRISTMAS TREE

Denial covers its tracks -
clouding the memory.
SILVER, it was freakin’ SILVER!!!
Glittering, glossy, garish, tin foil, SILVER!!
Required no ornamentation,
no tinsel tossing, no death
defying wiring, only a spinning 
rainbow disk to splash
crayola colored lights
upon SILVER...

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Wen I was jest a litl boy
An a pensil was mi toy
I likd to rit poms
An did mi best … homs

As a teenager
I began to revolt
I got an attitude
To the man I was rude
My writing...

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I stopped at a candy store that I hadn’t been before
the delightful aroma hit me just when  I opened the door
shelf after shelf,  tables galore,  even  boxes  of  stacked...

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Things That Should Grow on Trees

Things that should grow on trees include:
big sea birds with 
extremely long wings, old-fashioned shoe 
horns, tape recorders who 
play sporadically cries of 
grief, blank
photographs, stamps with 
printed eyeballs, people...

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