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Premium Member Skelton Thin
... Well tickle me bum and call me Lucy Got really great news pay attention it's juicy Seems to lose weight All you need do is wait Eventually you'll be skeleton thin quite spooky<>...

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Categories: skelton, fun,
Form: Limerick
Geoffrey Chaucer translations 2 by Michael R Burch
..."Cantus Troili" from "Troilus and Criseyde" by Petrarch translation by Geoffrey Chaucer modernization by Michael R. Burch If there’s no love, O God, why then, so low? And if love is, what thin......

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Categories: skelton, death, drink, earth, god,
Form: Rhyme



Long Life of Tortoise
...lions in the forest are roaring  loudly tortoises look at skelton of lions generationally. July 18/2023......

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Categories: skelton, animal, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Beware the Ides of March 2023
...Beware The Ides of March 2023 Ides simply referred to first new moon, which usually fell between the thirteenth and fifteenth day of a given month. The following events all occurred fift......

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Categories: skelton, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skelton Bones
...Down in the crypt where the caskets lie And dust stirs up when trucks go by Giggling sounds, not moans and groans From the tomb of Skelton Bones When the trucks go by no more No light peeks be......

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Categories: skelton, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



Shadowed Ravens Watch
...a procession shadowed ravens watch depressive day turns the winds bring Frost Skelton branches clutch Ghosts dance after the fall The procession crawls To the point of vanishing O......

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Categories: skelton, adventure, africa, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part I
...Ides simply referred to first new moon, which usually fell between the thirteenth and fifteenth day of a given month. Smithsonian Magazine history buff Tom A. Frail posted March 4, 2010 iss......

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Categories: skelton, adventure, celebration, conflict, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You'Ll Be Skelton Thin
...Well tickle me bum and call me Lucy Got really great news, pay attention, it's juicy Seems to lose some weight All you need do is wait Eventually you'll be skeleton thin, quite spooky<>...

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Categories: skelton, smile,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3. Sally Aline Mae Beller 4. Charles Edward A. Berry 5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó 7. Joh......

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Categories: skelton, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
Of the Coming Fire
...the skelton of the watch a vigil for the passing dead things left unfed wraiths wander on watching wanting waiting guiding the blind in to the light the instruments of time to mark mortality......

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Categories: skelton, age, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clowns
...Do you recall the song "Send In The Clowns" by Sinatra? I reckon folks even heard it who reside in faraway Sumatra. Long gone is famed Emmett Kelly who portrayed "Weary Willie", And the grea......

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Categories: skelton, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Keeping Up With the Joneses
...Sammy Skelton, a sorry bag of bones Tried to keep up with Johnny 'Crossbone' Jones He practiced grim groans Produced awful moans Yet never did improve his muscle tone......

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Categories: skelton, body, cry, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Tick Tock
...Tick Tock Oh the thirst and desire to be young the longing and lust of a passion gone my skelton structure so thin and stiff I know now death will not be long Tick Tock Hold my hands, caress ......

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Categories: skelton, age, inspiration, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 'tis of Thee Canada
... Written in the Viator Poetry Form Invented by Robin Skelton (1925-1997) Canadian Author and Poet 'Tis of Thee Canada For my country, proudly I wave the flag, surround by great ocean......

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Categories: skelton, pride,
Form: Rhyme
The Salton Sea
...The air is parched and crinkled, heavy with no place to go; with no sense of time, hanging suspended over the Salton Sea, 100 hundred miles in the middle of nowhere. A flat blue sky, swathed in ......

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Categories: skelton, culture, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Narrative

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