Short All Fingers And Thumbs Poems

much more to our sum
    counting on fingers and thumbs 
            so clever ~ so dumb...

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I bought loads of fruit with my chums
But I was all fingers and thumbs
I went all shades of red
When I dropped some and said
Hey lady, would you grab my plums?...

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The French call it "dix" - the Romans used X
The number of lords that are leaping Xmas
The total of fingers and thumbs on both hands
The base used for metric - both metres and grams
Count hydrogen atoms in compound butane
Downing Street doorstep, our PM's domain
Legs on a lobster and all decapods
Commandments and plagues that were given by God
The number of toes on the end of our feet
The lines in this poem - that makes it all neat...

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Listen to poem:

Perishable 
David J Walker

    as words spoken of love
with heat but not taken to heart 

while the cold of hate echoes 
well into the night 

let the dance continue until 
exhaustion claims the pallor 
from the cheeks of the last flight as
the dancers stumble and
the poet's mumble brilliant
verses that no one else may hear

the perfectly clean and clear waters
held in hands parish between 
fingers and thumbs

evaporating later to become
a sheet of freezing fog...

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