Long Scallywag Poems

Now Uncle Harry, me old Uncle, who’d been a scallywag I’d say,
told outlandish stories to us kids and we became his perfect prey.
For he’d see our eyes wide open as we took in every word,
believing...

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CHANCE ENCOUNTER
 
She sizzled softly through the crowd
white grin exuding cheer.
Between the lines it read:
please don't see what's not here.
 
He caught her eye and flashed a grin
carefully monitoring suave and charm.
Between the lines it...

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The American Library Association
      implores cognoscenti tubby alert
for impersonators, who
     call themselves Ernie and Bert

     took a page from Sesame Street Playbook
oft...

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The American Library Association
      implores cognoscenti tubby alert
impersonators, who
     call themselves Ernie and Bert

     took a page from Sesame Street Playbook
oft times...

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She was the best teacher ever born in our county, a tiny woman with a giant adventurous soul.
Miss Fizzle from Magic School bus was probably designed after someone met Miss Raggletoots.
Okay it is not her...

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visitin me aunty Cushla
For the first time in Ballybay
I found meself beside a signpost
An I stopped to find me way.
It was then I spied a little feller
Laid behind a bale of hay
He was prepared to...

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They were were in
the best parlour
fine furnishing of
Victorian period
dotted all round the
elaborate room
yet a tension, an
unease hangs in the
air 

Hat in hand he
stands before her
father
who hits the roof
when he asks for her
hand
I won't accept any
proposals...

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High on a hill, deep in a sea,
where it is I fall, just bury me.
Raise no stone to mark my spot
write me a ballad so I'll not be forgot.

Say I was a scallywag.
Say I was...

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With a hearty laugh, and scallywag's glee
I've acquired their riches, and conquered the sea!
Like a timid lass... they will turn, and flee
showing their backsides, to the likes of me!
Lily livered, they're fearin' my brand!
Shiverin' they...

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Yo-Ho-Ho And Shiver Me Timbers

Shiver me timbers and loosen me limbers
I sail me sloop until it lin’ers
And drop anchor in t’  nearest lagoon
Bury me treasure chest full o’ doubloons 
Then set off durin ...

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I want to talk of days of old
and a story that was never told
and I will tell you this story is true
and here it is without further adue

many trips I moved green bales from the...

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up in the v-birth
our lovers turf
this is what I see

you lay under the covers
where we were lovers
sleeping I let you be

I left you laying there
I just had to stare
there was so much to see

your hips...

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A lone wolf, Karlow listened to the jagged parts of herself 
That made her a scamp, a scallywag, a jammed up wood elf.
She had been on her own in the mystical forest for days.
She heard...

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A lone wolf, she listened to the jagged parts of herself 
That made her a scamp, a scallywag, a jammed up wood elf.
She had been on her own in the mystical forest for days.
She heard...

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POEM "PHANTOM" by martin gedge

All aboard the captains swell
a voyage set to sea
the dead that ride this vessel hell
will rise with the debris
to walk the plank into this tank
and rake the ocean floor
to flesh upon...

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It was one of those nights that a rapscallion would swoon
our pirate ship glided almost silently by the light of the moon
we were stealthily advancing on a world we did not know
They would experience our...

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Old Steve was a marvelous kitty
But what happened to Steve was a pity
He was born in a barn
On a twelve-acre farm
His career was chasing the vermin
Long before he met Farmer Herman 
But the farmer had...

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A Pirate Drinking Song

Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum
Pirates sing to the pipe and drum
North wind blows with a Gale's horn
Snapping the canvas with a deafening mourn

Battles are fought, plunder is sought
To ports abound, it...

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I'm coming back to you, Sooling. I'm on my way.
Hear the sheets flapping in the gallants and royals.
The spray is wet upon my cheeks and in my beard.
Soon we anchor at Lahaina in the Sandwich...

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I love my son he's always chipper
he's my scallywag and I'm the skipper
and the apple does'nt fall far from the tree
he's menatly challenged just like me!

and even though his dad's a zero
"hey dad your my...

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Cap’n Jordan was a scallywag from his nose to his toes.
He was determined to follow the gold through rumors galore.
Trusty companion tried to follow him, his name was Mose.
But Cap’n Jordan came just as Cap’n...

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Fair winds blow this day and my ship waits for
my return to take her close past Cape's End.
We are fitted, laden low of white ore,
copra taken clear of pier sheds that bend
following shore to native...

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Shakespeare would have failed Naplan,
That was not in his cunning plan,
Yes, his folks would have him tutored,
To make young Billy become more learned,
He would have lost all his homework,
Billy so did not want extra work,
Shakespeare,...

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