Short Avon Poems

I travelled to Stratford today
(Crossed  the Avon on the way)
In search of The Bard
To give him my card
As I'd had an idea for a play...

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Fast
river
the Avon
running to Bath
beautiful with snow
when I first met
the unknown
walking 
slow 

...

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The stars were dancing above the Avon
When he was born on that April night
And his heart`s door was left ajar
For he never forgot that sight...

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Wurtis B was a bardolater.
Shakespeare fan, there was no one greater.
He spouted the Bard.
Photo on his card.
Hamlet magnet on refrigerator....

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Medusa came calling one day
selling Avon.  What can I say?
To stone I did turn.
“It's so hard to earn
a living,” she cried.  “Rocks can't pay!”...

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Those beautiful towers on Avon gorge,
gorgeous and tall like Heavens doors,
proud above the cloud always visible,
please guide me home the day I fall....

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"No More Masks"  or "Avon Calling"

It seems that your looks are genetic
And no one would claim they're magnetic
Improve the aesthetic!
Apply a cosmetic!
Synthetic is seldom pathetic!...

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A-uthor
R-ightfully
I-mplements
A-wesome
N-ote
E-mploying

A-crostic
V-erse
O-f
N-ame

A-s
M-use
A-bout
R-apture
O-perates

Topic: Birthday of Ariane Avon Amaro (August 10) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Mr. Robert Kraft's
gone slightly daft 
   Ring-a-ling-a-ling
   ~ Prostitution sting




*The soon-to-be-former owner of America's
  most successful sports franchise just got 
  nailed in a little sting down in Florida. Ouch!...

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Avon
brings out the joy
in knowing beauty thrives
within the wild heart who believes
in love








Trademark~~Quintain Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Sara Kendrick
December 6, 2020
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The papers lay pitifully on the wooden pile
Hungry for a scholars ink
The pen pine to be touched 
Not with empty inspiration
But words that drip endlessly
And there I sit
Watching their anguish
Not Bard of Avon or Homer
Just an infamous poet
Who Yearn to be loved...

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A horse!  A horse!  My kingdom for a horse!

Wast penned by The Bard of Avon of course!

Richard's steed Surrey lay dead

Slain by a crossbow 'tis said

Dick pled for another 'til he was hoarse!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved

(Not for the contest)...

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“Ding dong, Avon calling!”, are these ladies around anymore
Way back when in another era, they came knocking at your door
Guess I'm dating myself
But I'm still in good health
Maybe I'll be around when they banish killings and wars

Ya think?


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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alas the ass to ride the dollar and the mule to the bank
I am not amuse the ruse of poetry soup and lack of lentils

as most of you do not know it is a legume to ponder the read
of a dictionary but the bard of avon  not going to plant a garden

the sun is bright but you are dim not knowing the share of sum
the perfect buffet with green tea and if lucky perfume with jasmine...

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My eyes unleash upon the world before me,
where Heaven wrests all darkness from its reign

These sights my fortune gladly spent on freedom,
to rise and fall as sun and moon both share

The seasons press their head and tail foreclosure,
to trail the one in front and lead the back

As cousins of the changing time indenture,
the same but separate lost within themselves

(Villanova On Avon: October, 2019)...

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It may be audacious even to attempt 
                                             a  definition of his greatness 
                                     But it is not so difficult  to describe the gifts 
                          that enable him to create imaginative visions of pathos and mirths 
                                       that whether read or witness in the theatre











William Shakespeare...

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Salesman on the phone
A game I play well.
Love it too

When my children were toddlers
I merely 
handed them the phone

When they got older 
I started trying to sell the salesman
aluminum siding, Tupperware, Avon, 

I called this new game
Beat the clock
The win was easy….did I beat my last time?

How long would it take
for the salesman to get irritated
and hang up.

My best time
Three minutes 
I am proud of that....

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EPISTLE TO BILLY SHAKESPEARE


An epistle to Billy Shakespeare:
Dear erstwhile bard of Avon,
Greetings to you from 
The bamboozled, browsing
Bibliographies, bound 
by the bloodlust, ]
Passions so flawed, 
Exaggerations,
Literary inventions,
to contradictions,
Legions of legends,
Perennial prose,
constellations, creations
Tragic heroes 
and drama queens.
Dear Billy Shakespeare,
Thanks so much not,

Signed,
Long suffering teens!!!!...

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My eyes tell a story 
Do you wanna know?
The tempest and the temptations
Are alive but wasn't enough to trounce me

I'm wild and loyal
Resilient and practical
Church-mindedly ruthless and effervescent
A cheerful giver of love not lust

Smirtle! I make you laugh not cause I care
But to show my brawniness
My prowess as a queendom
Goes without the saying - I rule

Not bard of Homer or Avon
But I write
Your destiny not mine
I'm the juggernaut...

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Ding dong!
Avon calling
it is 1953.
Women rush to host a fragrance party.
The Avon lady is lying in wait, ready to sell.

Ding dong!
You cannot come to toe door in your house dress.
Your lips will be blood red with lipstick.
Eyes are blinking back chunks of mascara from your brush.
You are wearing a chiffon gown and diamond earrings.

I laugh at these ads now.
When I was a child they seemed plausible.
Normal even.
As we saw them so many times, and I was young....

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I remember, oh how I remember
the years that have gone by.
Our doors were never bolted
our windows never closed.

Women had part-time jobs
knocking on doors all afternoon,
their comely voices bidding:
Madam 'tis Avon calling for you.

Meantime grandma would sit
outside the house and gossip
with friends who passed her by,
whilst we would wander all alone
in fun parks or green meadows,
flying our gaudy coloured kites,
and gathering cowslips for our dear mum.
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