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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<>

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...

Long Life of Tortoise

...lions in the forest 
are roaring  loudly 
tortoises look at 
skelton of lions generationally. 

July 18/2023...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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<>

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

'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...

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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