Past Times 2
...Five stones
closing times
radiograms and
seventy-eights
school caps
sticklebacks
saturday flicks,pooh sticks
Charabancs
steam train...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Saved In My Memorybank
...Five stones closing times
radiograms & seventy-eights
school caps sticklebacks
saturday flicks pooh sticks
Charabancs steam trains
linoleum oil cloth
mangles fis...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Butterfly
...The butterfly is back.
I saw him land in sun, just where the bin had been, before today's collection.
This one I had not seen since boyhood tracks by field and hedge,
and hunting for a nest and ...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, april, butterfly, christian, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Fishing With Dynamite
...Fishing with Dynamite
Boom! goes the dynamite as we fish for fish
No line, net or hook needed
Just a few sticks of dynamite and a Zippo
Light the stick and toss it in
Wait a few seconds and Boom...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, adventure, fishing, satire,
Form: Free verse
Fishy Tales - a Rhyming Wave Poem
...RHYMING WAVE POETRY
The Rhyming Wave is a poetry form created by Katharine L. Sparrow, American writer and poet.
It's format; 2 or more quatrains plus an ending couplet. Lines 1...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A Sestina - My Secret River
... MY SECRET RIVER
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Its source some distance from its end, highlands.
A little trickle meanders a mile.
Pure, full of many forms of life, no fish!
Now babbles over rocky ground...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, nature, rap, river,
Form: Sestina
Those Were the Days
...Five stones
closing times
radiograms and
seventy-eights
school caps
sticklebacks
saturday flicks,pooh sticks
Charabancs
st...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, childhood, history, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
A La Carte For the Whales
...Mitigating migrating mermaids mingle marvellously. But only after consuming an oyster. Oysters can be quite operatic and operas are neither optical illusions nor organised instruments either. It is w...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, bible, , cute,
Form: I do not know?
The Swan King
...The Swan King.
Fine fibre lashes flicker, flutter.
Sailing trance-like on warm reflected glass,
Royal icing sculpture, still Lily-White feathers.
Ripples giggling, Dragon Flies dipping,
Stickl...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, beauty, bird, nature, poems,
Form: Free verse
Haiku Kingfisher
...Hazed mist of morning
kingfisher iridescent ~
sticklebacks beware....
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Categories:
sticklebacks, bird,
Form: Haiku
Fishy Tale
...A pond sits in the glen
bright fish dashing about
casting silvery shadows
ducks chasing after them
eels making their way to sea
flying birds circling back and forth
green frogs croaking for a m...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, fish,
Form: Abecedarian
Places
...If I could be any place I have Lived
it would be back in dear Dar-es-Salaam
this is where I left my heart moons ago
a simple yet enthralling and lovely place
Everything one needs on the doorstep
exo...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, africa, creation, england, happiness,
Form: Verse
Bubbletown Blews
...Bubbletown Blews
Whilst sitting and lying by a babbling brook
for once through the water I took a deeper look
then I saw into Bubbletown, bubbles popping with glee
for that is what they are meant ...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, discrimination, england, environment,
Form: Light Verse
Kingdom of the Frog
...By a still pond where the water lilies plate the mirror fair
the dragonflies in neon burst unzip the summer air
beneath the wilting willow in rippling rows of reed
the warblers spring like acrobats t...
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Categories:
sticklebacks, happiness, introspection, seasons, summer,
Form: Rhyme