Come On! Put a Smile on Your Dial!
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Can I borrow your smile for a while?
'cos I'm so happy to see YOU smile!
Here are some things in my smile-a-while-pile
A wagging puppy tail rattling on the wall
A pussy cat with walking-stick t...
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Categories:
slippy, happy, smile,
Form: Free verse
Ode to Beer
...O’ fluid friend,—
—O’ liquid lover, please
embrace me, soothe my sootheless, stranded soul—,
—caress my restless thoughts, and set them still.—
O’ sap of spirit,—
—s...
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Categories:
slippy, appreciation, celebration, desire, drink,
Form: Italian Sonnet
That's Wrong
...The scuffling duo sparred in the park
Their screams and shouts so very marked
A bag was clutched in the woman's hand
A man had grabbed it while he harangued
"Let go!" He shrilled and tugged it ...
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Categories:
slippy, funny,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Slippy Dippy - Do Do
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baby chicks chirpy do do,
big feet pretty fun feathers;
twirl, stumble, fall la la la,
chirp, chirp, peep, peep, peep !...
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Categories:
slippy, bird, silly, sweet,
Form: Dodoitsu
Long Winter Stretch
...Behind a frozen glass window I peer,
but not for long despite the pending thunder,
to spur an inner gnawing gumption,
I turn a chilly doorknob,
with great stealth born of winters past,
sleet-r...
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Categories:
slippy, art, dark, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse
Fishy Smell Is Not At All Me
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There is one job I could never do
ever since leaving school this was a no
never felt any real direction at that time
but a fish shop job was never ever so
The smell of fish always put me off
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Categories:
slippy, fish, food, life, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Reverse Midas Touch
...Stomach-wrenching body blows dog those
blighted by endemic fiasco,,
grim dervish whirl of death a maybe one day royal flush,
predicament that hoodoo mark in frozen ink,
cataclysmic episode relen...
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Categories:
slippy, age, angst, august, care,
Form: Free verse
A Jolly Fisherman
...A Jolly Fisherman -
a rhyme for children
Jim, a jolly fisherman,
went up from his boat
and said to boys near him,
"I've just been afloat.
I've brought you some fish
from there in th...
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Categories:
slippy, children, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
slippy, car, kid, red, snow,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Distance
...Yes, I didn’t come here; I didn’t touch this soft body
I didn’t consume the wine where you were sleepy
It’s a long grassy lawn; splendid roof of the violet sky
Where the bed of roses kissed the ba...
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Categories:
slippy, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Exile On a Whim
...Doors slam, windows crack, letter flap inhales a fatal
wind.
Breastplate rusty dragon bearing scars.
House keys, credit cards, raybans close to hand.
Faux fur on the rack for noble bounty,
footn...
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Categories:
slippy, art, august, birth, care,
Form: Narrative
Jabophobia
...[in the interest of peace and harmony: this is
an observation on needles in general and not
on Covid vaccinations]
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I’ve no front teeth cos when I was twenty...
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Categories:
slippy, angst, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Let's Start
...No light there was, no moon
Far away the electricity had gone
It was last night on the snow-white bed
You were an amorous lass and I'm a lad
Where is the kiss in where the lad was live
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Categories:
slippy, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Snow Circus
...Snow Circus
Dust me down
To be icing sugar clown
With my nose so red
And banana skin frown
Inappropriate shoes
Or the grip I could lose
Mean a fall from grace is
Like pie to the face
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Categories:
slippy, snow,
Form: Rhyme
All For the Love of Joe
...This was inspired by Georgette Johnson’s poem “Savouring Another Day”
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One cold day whilst I was out in the snow
I went into a cafe for a Joe
I slipped across floor
And got...
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Categories:
slippy, drink, humorous, snow,
Form: Limerick
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