The Fresno Fuzzy Socks and the Chattahoochee Crocs
...No-one knows precisely when the rivalry began;
thirty-two the legend goes; eighteen or nineteen?
It's not clear, nor can it be confirmed.
Apart from once in fifty-nine
For reasons lost in time...
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Categories:
mctavish, humor,
Form: Free verse
A Wee Bit O' the Irish
...McPherson, McGregor, McTavish and me
All went out for a wee cup o’ tea.
McPherson took sugar, just one lump I see,
McGregor took two lumps, McTavish took three.
I settled for lemon, no sugar for ...
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Categories:
mctavish, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
The Ballad of Agnes Bean
...From ‘The Woe of Roanoke ‘
It wasn’t just the gale that chilled his skin
As he mulled on the cannibal captured within.
In trembling state he clenched close his cane
To rap tap the gate of the jai...
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Categories:
mctavish, abuse, death, evil, gothic,
Form: Narrative
The Eye of the Sea - Part 6
...Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 5
There washed ashore the Devil’s Whore,
Who had three times been paid,
Preserved through Sin and worshippin’
Beelzebub and the grave.
With many a ch...
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Categories:
mctavish, adventure, boat, sea, sin,
Form: Epic