Wimbledon the menace of celebrity tennis
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Mr Dennis...grimace..what the Dickens is going on...the menace
Inevitability of a celebrity on every terrace at the tennis..
The profanity and insanity of rampant vanity..
The gist..a...
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Categories:
swanky, celebrity, society, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Of course Fairy Tales can come true Daws
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Have I done something wrong..8 long years..regretted being forsaken not feted..more pong than gong it appears
Charismatic Selectors mistaken..phlegmatic..enigmatic or erratic
Dramatic not pra...
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Categories:
swanky, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Billionaires hunker down in their Queenstown bunker lairs
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Let’s pester Uncle Fester
After dafter Luxon
Pushed the button
Welcomed every glutton
To the isles of mutton
Theme of the meme
Team New Zealand
It does seem
No longer a
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Categories:
swanky, money,
Form: Rhyme
Banana once again
...What sold was for millions as art so grand,
Was bought for a few cents at a fruit stand--
A fancy mall nor mart,
Nor place of art apart,
Nor was banana taped with swanky band.
But a joke so crue...
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Categories:
swanky, art, humor, irony,
Form: Limerick
Georgia in mid-March
...the roaring sound rejuvenates my heart
wind whips,
bells tinkle,
flag flaps
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Categories:
swanky, emotions, spring, wind,
Form: Free verse
Uh Oh
...Subtle, a swanky sweet swan-themed restaurant in Cincinnati
Accidentally took evening reservations for a hundred and three
Unfortunately, their capacity limit is twenty-five and a half
The booking...
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Categories:
swanky, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The England Captain Throttled a Koala
...And why not?
The Lucky country
Bodyline
Human skittles
Murder Incorporated
Swing lube
I sit with friends and
We put
Together our greatest XI
To face Mars
My father shouts, "That's out!...
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Categories:
swanky, my child, mythology,
Form: Free verse
King
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Christ, the King of kings
Of whom my soul sings
Born in a manger
His life in danger
No palace, no bed
No place to lay head
Walking everywhere
No carriage to spare
Riding a donk...
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Categories:
swanky, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
New Life
...She cut the ties
The good
The bad
The menopause
Finally, the long pause
Followed by the loneliness
Days became weeks, became months
It was time
Life begins at forty
Did it, end at forty-six
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Categories:
swanky, confidence, emotions, future,
Form: Free verse
Night Club
...Club nocturnal
In Bilbao, on a warm evening, he walked past a nightclub
walked in and had a beer; he could have gone to
a Guggenheim Museum and be culturally minded, absorb
and mention it lat...
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Categories:
swanky, abuse, allusion, anger, anti
Form: Blank verse
Peppy Petals
...blooms
bouncy
baby’s breath
busy bee balm
ritzy rose, glitzy gloxinia
zany zinnia, dear ditzy daisy
swanky saffron
flouncy phlox
bonnie
buds...
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Categories:
swanky, beauty, environment, flower, nature,
Form: Tetractys
The Ballad of Daphne and Jack, the Sequel
...Gather 'round me, my dears,
I'll continue the tale
Of a princess and her pirate lover.
Of her crown unencumbered,
They pillaged and plundered
As they wandered the seven seas over.
Crimes mari...
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Categories:
swanky, adventure, humor, princess,
Form: Light Verse
Critterature: Concerning the Crafty Crayfish
...By many aliases they're known:
Crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs, yabbies.
They abound in brooks, and streams, and swamps,
As well as roadside ditches and rice paddies.
Their astacology has shown
Th...
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Categories:
swanky, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
One Hundred Colours of Gluck
...Emerald envy nestled on velvet
several thousand away from paid
Puce tulip promise inducement
secluded juice, palliation delayed
Ivory aspire ripped wide envelope
plump with numbered requirem...
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Categories:
swanky, business, class, green, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Of Infinity
...On the exquisite wings of fated infinity.
We move with subtle elegance and fluidity.
To sail into odd space on a vessel of silence.
It is clearly the domain of the swanky credence...
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Categories:
swanky, allegory, analogy, appreciation, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
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