Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase
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twelve of us he choose to paint
sons of Jacob in an earthen
jar so sturdy
plonked us with vehemence
directed by neuronal cells
skull protecting scrambled
delicacy
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Categories:
plonked, allegory, art, character, color,
Form: Ekphrasis
Malmsbury and Sacred Heart Catheral
...2025.05.18
Today, I had a morning started quite roughly.
I almost missed the bus,
Then actually missed the stop at the train station,
That costed me one hour moving and waiting around.
Finall...
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Categories:
plonked, travel,
Form: Free verse
Somewhere On Foot Part Two
...“Oh please don’t worry.
I haven’t a heightened sixth sense… about the mint infused lilt here.”
There must be a compass without a point surrounding me
“Looking for directions.
The town you’re seek...
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Categories:
plonked, beautiful, character, deep, environment,
Form: Prose
THREE MINUTES TO DONE
...THREE MINUTES TO DONE
Do I first bring water to boiling point
To time the egg from that moment on
Or from cold, to then be soft not hard
That one might be tempted to discard
But plonked in a c...
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Categories:
plonked, food, time,
Form: Rhyme
My Christmas Roast
...There was Turkey and sausage meat, gammon ham too,
Four pigs in blankets for me, you and you
I did Yorkshire puddings and parsnips well glazed
Sprouts, roast potatoes: I’m thus far unfazed…
But...
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Categories:
plonked, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
A LANCASHIRE LIASON
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A LANCASHIRE LIASON
“Laugh an world laughs with yer” she said, as she cum in.
I said,“ Do you live in a barn?”
She grimaced an with er large left arm she swung out an shut door.
“Are y’ e...
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Categories:
plonked, age, best friend, character,
Form: Free verse
The Visitor
...The woman sits silently
on the edge of the bed
A thin shaft of afternoon sun
from a tear in faded curtains
slices the murky room,
landing on the man's damp body
half-covered with draggled she...
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Categories:
plonked, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Abducted Worker
...Abducted Worker
He was riding his moped to the office to work
The alien craft hovered over him and took him
It left his moped by the roadside needing the rider
In a blast of silent light he was ...
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Categories:
plonked, absence, leaving, truth,
Form: Free verse
Mind-Body Enigma
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Here we are, in this feeble mind-body
Afflicted by amnesia, plonked upon earth
We are this here now, not everybody
Limited, yet vibrant with childlike mirth
Maya veils; lets us fe...
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Categories:
plonked, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Vegan Crayons
...Have you heard
a carrot scream,
when dragged outta earth?
Or the yell of green beans
peeled alive
severed cross-wise, sectioned?
Or the curdling
yell of purple potatoes
plonked alive in
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Categories:
plonked, art, green, purple, yellow,
Form: Free verse
It's a Mad World- In a Lancashire Accent
...IT’S A MAD WORLD In a Lancashire Accent.
I went to the Confectioners today, there was a long queue outside, a metre apart, and it had started to rain.
The assistant behind the counter had shiny ...
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Categories:
plonked, crazy, food, funny, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
A Porters Approach To Coronavirus
...Since that shutdown thing
Things have been quite quiet here at work
Im a porter in a hospital
Moving people for transport and some other things now
My hospital has stayed the same,
But every...
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Categories:
plonked, appreciation, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Mrs Grundy and the Butcher
...Ted Cogger is our local butcher and he’s been here seven years;
full forward for the footy team and drinks a nightly seven beers.
He played one season for the cricket club, but he was just a slugge...
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Categories:
plonked, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Purple and I Learn To Spit
...A poem penned in '61; loved by all, a favourite of mine
Performed by Bella, my sweetest grandchild, when at the tender age of nine
Draped head to toe in a purple shawl, with a purple hat plon...
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Categories:
plonked, grandchild, humorous, old, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Huge Jarse
...My step sister her name is Annie
has got the most gigantic fanny
When she plonked on a chair
She was quite unaware
she’d sat upon our little granny
Our poor granny was almost squas...
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Categories:
plonked, crush, humorous,
Form: Limerick
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