Long Sods Poems

The plane looked old and fairly worn,
the sky was grey, about to storm.
They hurried us along the aisles,
in tiny seats we’d sit for miles.

With creak and groan we taxied out,
at runway’s end we turned about.
With...

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Unquotable quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads – XXXVII

( No aspersions are being cast here, willingly or otherwise, on the fairer, stronger and infinitely more sagacious sex. Even if these over-used words are somewhat overloaded...

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Lay down your old ink pen...
Rise from the table...
Push back your chair.
Gather them all up...
Put them out of sight now...
Place them safely in the cupboard 
Bare.
Wrapped in stiff brown paper,
Strung tightly together
With thin white string;
Turn...

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We played on all weather turf which was mud and a few sods of grass

Dribbled like Pele and Eusebio in old boot for that one killer pass

From straight after school until there was not one...

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I have seen it all
I have seen them all 
Kings, Queens to those with no claim at all
You all rise, YOU ALL Fall
Your fire is my reason....
And then
No flame at all... weak and I am...

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The winter of 1621 in Plymouth was harsh as could be,
The Pilgrims were sick and sorry they'd come,
They missed their warm English beds and their tea.
The still ambulatory shivered and shuffled about,
As they grinched, and...

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Given as a gift from Germany to Kabul zoo in Afghanistan 
No fields to run in - just a miserable enclosed barren land
 
You were blessed with a beautiful lioness partner, Chucha
She must have made...

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Just a few lines I hereby write to let you know
that I, in my entirety am still alive,
care I give, when with pen perceiving you so slow
the words upon these lines, just in time will...

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for a little slander
The new president of America has told Europe to look after its own defense which means NATO without the USA’s help becomes a boy’s club for retired politicians pretending, they are a...

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Silly wisps of her raven hair flutter
In the winds of the long-short corridor of summer;
They snivel with the whims of cosseted sots,
Sinking in the futile harmony of winking beasts.
Pretty whiskers, soft with the ague of...

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"The Paradox" 

When we had crossed Styx
like a slow game of knuckles
we were thrown for a six 
it was like the party 
had kick started 
way ahead of time
without us

escape from the world
of fools is...

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There is an age that parents fear,
A time when manners disappear.
When siblings turn and just for fun,
Hate everything, the time’s begun.

Now all become pure selfish sods
And think they walk where no one’s  trod.
They now...

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Hypocritical Politicians

One cannot but agree about diplomacy being all hypocrisy...
Those who double talk and sugar coat their  wordings...
Are actually buying for time for double dealing...
Explains perfectly why politicians are experts at wheeling and dealings...
They...

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Who is Sod and what’s this law
Sod’s law, what’s it for
Mend your car engine, drop your spanner
Can you reach it, no you canna
Perfectly aligned beneath the middle of the truck
Sod and his law, hard luck

Who...

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Let me tell you about the notorious two
Well known by both me and you
Terrorising the neighborhood 
They ventured in to the wood
Causing mischief, getting up to no good

Poor old Anne May
Was baking cakes and cookies...

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I walk on out in the evening,
When the stars all tell their stories.
This mystic land speaks of meaning,
As I ponder, their wonder speaks their glories.

When the stars all tell their stories,
My eyes open to a...

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Remember, Remember the day that I died,
when everyone cheered and nobody cried.
I’d led a short life that was riddled in sin
and I knew in my gut that I never would win.

But that final day when...

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MY PRIMARY THOUGHTS
 
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Black magic, white magic, it’s all the same,
It’s all devil worship, it’s just in the name.
These people all think that they’re clever sods too,
By casting their spells there is naught they can’t do.

Black magic, white...

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Barchans go on droughting in Yagyakarta sods
outpaced here I throw a soliton in gaze-mirage

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Here we stand on this, the Lee of 
             ...

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Black magic, White magic it’s all the same,
it’s all devil worship, it’s just in the name.
These people all think that they’re clever sods too,
by casting their spells there is nought they can’t do.

Black magic, White...

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Cancer it breaks cancer it takes
It erodes and corrodes body and soul
Lingers and takes hold  cant be stopped or controlled
Terminal is with an apparent ending
Loss of hope and no point in pretending
Life span is...

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A stare across the grassy fields revealed.
Covered with frost, they lay quiet and still.

Their position clearly had a restful feel,
One which will leave them in decline until

Next Spring when they break from their clods.
Few but...

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The world in sudden chaos,  
we hear the silent whispers but dare not say a word
Shrouded in uncertainty is our vision now so
blurred? 
We go about our business as if it all is fine...

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An old man from Caribou Hill
Fancied a bit of a thrill
His care worker, Sandy
Was willing and randy
And slipped him a little blue pill.

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If...

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