Brian Bilston's Breviloquence
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Don't have to be a sleuth
To find ample proof
A well worn trampled truth
That to besmirch
Not be kind
On a pedant’s perch
Scorn and be aloof
Is quite simply uncouth
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Categories:
squiffy, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Jofradamus can see the future
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Oi Oi ..saveloy…caps do doff..bless Joffy boy…with injury woes and blows…
From the off some did scoff…Joff can no longer bowl for toffee…clearly not really…
Not being coy but some of those pr...
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Categories:
squiffy, sports,
Form: Free verse
Gone Fishing
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Despairing seafaring..can be
Lore of days of yore
Glories or gory
Bold stories told
Foreshore folklore
Hemingway’s…Old
Man and the Sea
Smiles..feeling chipper
Like a wee...
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Categories:
squiffy, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks
...Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks (tongue in cheek peek at Dunedin's historic deluge)
"Stares upstairs..
Angels’ weeing above..
Be a good chap..
Show some love bruv..
Turn off the ta...
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Categories:
squiffy, environment, nature, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Ripples
...Sitting in the corner watching ripples in my beer
I blink away the wetness but those ripples reappear
This used to be our corner and my grin was ear to ear
But now I sit alone here watching ripple...
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Categories:
squiffy, loneliness, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Ahoy - a Nautical Nightmare
...[Written as a sort of sea shanty style thing-a-me-Bob. Tin Fish = Torpedo]
When the tin fish hit me starboard I was thrown into the sea
I sank down to the ocean bed for all eternity
I met a ma...
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Categories:
squiffy, boat, fantasy, humorous, sea,
Form: Monorhyme
Cocktail Sticks
...I dunno who decided that cheese should have resided
With bits of pineapple upon a stick
I’d have hit him with a truncheon when he said a pickled onion
Would top it off: I fear he was quite sick
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Categories:
squiffy, food, humorous, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Solomon Servants Songbirds
...Solomon’s secretive solemn sassy sensuous servants and songbirds
Solicited serious Somalian solutions simultaneously with South African,
Southeast Asian, South Dakota, and South America. Squiffy, ...
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Categories:
squiffy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Brahms and Liszt
...Happy. Genial. Merry. Jolly
Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed
Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy
Tipsy. Tiddly. Brahms and Liszt
Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied
Ganted, gubbed, guttered...
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Categories:
squiffy, drink,
Form: List