Short Abseil Poems

It's not her style to walk down the aisle.  
Father and parson its sure to rile.  
But all of the people 
down under the steeple 
will smile at her elegant abseil.  


*Abseil - rappel down a rope...

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My heart pounding
The rocks crumbling
I look back over the edge 
The steep slope looming down
As horrifying images of falling pound through my head
I take a step back 
Then another
And then.....
                I slip
But the rope catches me
And I continue 
Tempting death
As I 
Abseil....

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My new best friend was Sammy Snail
I found him slithering in my pail
I tried to keep him without fail
But from my pail he did abseil!
Our kitchen wall he tried to scale
Dad took him out, I start to wail
my little face it turned quite pale
I really miss dear Sammy Snail


Nursery Rhyme 4 Poetry Contest

Sponsored By Eve Roper

04/10/21...

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The start or St.Art?.
but where?

on the corner by the neon sign?
under the clock at Waterloo when it's
striking nine?

the third eye is my guess
but I improvise and
devise ways to bolt
lightning to the floor
and
always 
always want to do more.

easily distracted
I dismantle tall building
abseil from mountains
and fire on four cylinders,
the Saint paints in the 
missing figurines as the
menagerie dreams on....

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I love vocabulary games, and these odd words came up in English words games, recently: Bute ( I know "Butte" but not BUTE)  & "abseil," "landau," and even "Bourne" (identity?).

A poem about a simpler word, FLIERS.

When we say FLY, 
Buzzing by and by
Which is it?
Plane or insect?
But when we use "Fliers"
The letters reveal secrets:
"liFe," "selF," "lies" & "Flies" again
LIFERS is best of all
In this game; Hope for us all...

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