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The Very Weird And Wonderful World Of Place Names: UK And US Edition
I: THE UK
Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop,
Matching Tye and Droop
Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown,
Westward Ho! and Throop.
Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Bath, Cat's Ash
North Piddle, Staines and Pen*stone,
Wash Dyke, East Breast and Flash.
Six Mile Bottom, Mudford...
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Categories:
rough and ready, america, crazy, england, humor, humorous, london, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Big Hands Don
BIG HANDS DON
I s’pose I’ve been a cowboy since I was just a ‘teen
But I was herd’n bad guys, see I cowboy’d for the queen
I rode with lots of partners up and down the asphalt...
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Categories:
rough and ready, cowboy-western, funny, smile,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Buttercupshalimarcat
ButtercupShalimar was a cat, that was white
She was fluffy and furry and real girl girly.
One day, in a baskety in the bedrommy,
She had six kittiebabies with big, big loud cries . . .
Mew mew mew...
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Categories:
rough and ready, children, word play,
Form:
Free verse
No Fake Fire Drill
No "FAKE" Fire Drill
Residents at high
land manor apartments
(aside from myself)
got rudely awakened -
by what sounded
...
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Categories:
rough and ready, 11th grade, 8th grade, angel, character, fate,
Form:
Free verse
On Two Old Characters At the Bus Stop
“Well now,
I’ve enough dirty knickers to be washin’,
That’s why I never got married”.
Now listen to them talk
For it’s hard not to.
He never got married
or any of that other nonsense
That people bother with.
This friendly meeting...
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Categories:
rough and ready, character, city, friendship, humor, humorous, meaningful,
Form:
Blank verse
Changing Tack
Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems,
You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams.
Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook,
You have to...
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Categories:
rough and ready, anger, boat, endurance, pollution, violence, voyage, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Eary Solution
I’d been cutting spuds for seed beneath the pines on Rouse’s lot,
and putting lime upon the open flesh to make sure they don’t rot.
I had to slice so every piece contained a growing eye,
and every...
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Categories:
rough and ready, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Pondering of a Puddle
Ponded and becalmed after the downpour, lying in shining stillness, I reflect an earthly existence; above me newly leafed limbs, and beyond, the wild beauty of motley skies in the afternoon’s brightening quietude. On the...
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Categories:
rough and ready, april, destiny, fate, imagination, introspection, life, nature,
Form:
Haibun
Measuring a Corn Field
The whole world I can measure in this cornfield.
Why would I need
to go to Indiana or Pennsylvania
or Katmandu?
Ohio is right here, and the rattling gold of the corn is here.
Yes Indiana has its rustic temples...
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Categories:
rough and ready, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Why
WHY………….
Why does my heart beat so slow
Is it because I have to let my baby go
I have to leave your warm embrace
Its just too much for me to face
Why does the river of tears never...
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Categories:
rough and ready, lost love, lovebaby, me, heart, baby, heart,
Form:
I do not know?
If You Could See In Me
If you could see, the inside of me
What would you view, that you would want to see
For inside of me for any given year
Is loaded with music, it's my driven steer
Whether it's Rock with Deep...
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Categories:
rough and ready, history, musicme,
Form:
Rhyme
Here
Ohio is right here, and the rattling gold of
earth-born corn is here.
All over creation the sky is wide open
and the green and yellow stalks are swaying
right here.
Here the wind-songs are rough and ready,
yet they are...
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Categories:
rough and ready, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
After Easter
Hawkish angels with golden bows
chase away shawnee and wolves.
A sinewy faith built the rough and ready.
We were pleased to claim this land
for Jesus.
Despite the tornadoes,
we continued to raise
Midwest cities
from a leather flogged bible.
We were conceived...
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Categories:
rough and ready, poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
Low Sun Over Home Waters
Nets are hauled and homeward go the shrimp boats
rolling slow and easy on a sunset path,
their droning engines chugging
over a rippling seafoam.
In the mangrove swamp
an egret sets its white sails and glides upwards
upon hot winds.
The...
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Categories:
rough and ready, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Balls and Belles
These rugby-playing girls -
or women, should I say? -
are so rough and ready,
dashing down that field,
conveying that oval ball
from this end to that,
gritting their teeth.
Oh, what might! Such a sight!
Or do I not prefer
to...
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Categories:
rough and ready, color, sports, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Katrina
Silence, eyes forward, and stay
Dear Katrina comes this way
She seeks with us to play
But we say
Dear Katrina, stay
Katrina, go away
But she came
She came just the same
With murderous brilliance and perfect aim
Dear Katrina the slayer, we...
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Categories:
rough and ready, dark, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Dead Ends
It was near a river named Yuba
and a little town named Rough and Ready.
No. It was not dark.
It was the heart of the day.
There were no streets, dead ends, or otherwise.
There was simply a dirt...
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Categories:
rough and ready, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
The Long and Distant Connection
Amongst the rough and ready she waits.
Her ears pitched only for the music that will lift her up,
her eyes searching for the words and images that will inspire,
her heart yearning for that one, the one...
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Categories:
rough and ready, internet, longing,
Form:
Verse
Caveman
Civilisation's got me down
taking me to the tail of my tether
driving me round the bend
I'm not going to stick it out
to see where it will end
I'll do my best to regress
back to the stone age
cook...
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Categories:
rough and ready, fire, how i feel, humanity, humorous, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
Firearms For Sale
Firearms for sale
Come and get them now.
Our rifles are fine
Our shotguns are a wow!
So you can’t come by today, Chet?
That’s okay. Buy them on the Internet.
How much easier can it be?
So many sold nice and...
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Categories:
rough and ready, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
A Rough and Ready Write
The sun is up and coming in the morning,
The moon is waving me a sad goodbye,
The dawn of our solution,
Is cleaning our pollution,
With optimal collusion as we fry.
I wonder as I wander in the sun...
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Categories:
rough and ready, animal, appreciation, bird, butterfly, good morning, nature,
Form:
Rhyme