B I N G O
...I caught me a Dingo
I named that dog Bingo
He was no more than three
He watched o'er my nippers
And fetched me my slippers
What a good dog was he
One day while out walking
I heard people t...
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Categories:
nippers, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Wimbledon the menace of celebrity tennis
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Mr Dennis...grimace..what the Dickens is going on...the menace
Inevitability of a celebrity on every terrace at the tennis..
The profanity and insanity of rampant vanity..
The gist..a...
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Categories:
nippers, celebrity, society, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Thaz bin teld
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Thee overthier sed whet?
Put pint darn, spek thou tripe!
Thou must oo-n thy own thoughts
Went aside thou harse tuther day
Heard waling tuther side thy do-or.
Arrghh, tis whet thee sed? Nowt!...
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Categories:
nippers, abuse, anger, children, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Gramps
...Never knew my grandpa's,
they were too old.
I cannot now sing
true grampus songs.
I get all teary-eyed
about those two dead and gonners.
I dream of going fishing with them,
listening to thei...
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Categories:
nippers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
O Hedgehog!
...Hedgehog, O hedgehog
dear spiny, meek and mousy poppet.
In England
where the tickly grass grows
greener
we galumph in our rubber boots
up to your little
Hobbit nests
beneath the thorny bushes...
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Categories:
nippers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Refurbished Fairy Tales: Cinderella, If the Shoe Fits Part Three
...The happily ever after...
He searched the kingdom for a fortnight 'til all saddle sore and weary,
With his eyes bloodshot and bleary,
The prince arrived at the last door.
He found two sisters, ...
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Categories:
nippers, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Thing
...A night tide expels it,
leaves it
wallowing.
Salt has blistered,
nippers gnawed.
The carcass tumbles.
Tattered flesh flaps,
bone snaggles bone.
A figure emerges,
as if a mangled perso...
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Categories:
nippers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Walton's Scrapyard
...Walton’s Scrapyard
Mr Walton was our local scrap man
He wore a great big hat
His yard was squeezed between
Two terraced houses
And I was always amazed at that
The yard was full of junk
Ru...
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Categories:
nippers, adventure, childhood, children, funny,
Form: Verse
Pushkin Sonnet - the Meandering Brook
...The Meandering Brook
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the brook meanders across the moorland,
dividing heather and bracken with banks
adorned with wetland flora, looking grand.
sandy patches, ...
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Categories:
nippers, nature,
Form: Sonnet
The Pleasant Yapping of My Slippers
...I wear my little dogs like bedroom slippers
They rush about the house, those little nippers
The black one and nut brown
Up the staircase down
Sometimes we go to town
In my bedroom gown.
They ...
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Categories:
nippers, animal, dog, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
My Thoughts
...holy wars
not right… way back when
not right now
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why fear religion
why believe in fear of god
abused nature… fear
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sieve good from bad
survival of the fittest
evolutions real
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Categories:
nippers, nature, pollution, religion,
Form: Haiku
Nice Try, Gundagai
...A bloke who hails
from New South Wales
will know of Gundagai.
Some guy found gold,
or so we're told,
in days now long gone by.
I grew up there
without a care
when both of us were ni...
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Categories:
nippers, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Spring
...Stunningly dressed, stirring in her crib, spring awakens.
Plants and animals ready for the princesses arrival.
Rolling waves of aviators, nippers, roamers scurry all.
I
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Categories:
nippers, spring,
Form: Acrostic
A Message To Heaven
...i wait at night, look for your star
i feel you close, but bodys so far
taken away, removed all your pain
your words and your wisdom, were the things that i gain
long late night chats, getting bl...
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Categories:
nippers, familyme, mum,
Form: I do not know?