October Nips
...Busty shaped and large of hip
the busy winds of October
buffet my brain
within its whistling cave.
Around the shoulders
of every lumpy molehill
taverns and tankards
bloom in a russet corner ...
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Categories:
tankards, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Witches Fayre
...gather wares for market day
and cauldrons of the land
baneful stock for the boiling pot
before the evening’s end
tankards spill and taverns heave
upon these Beltane days
see magic folk and so...
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Categories:
tankards, dark, fantasy, fun, magic,
Form: Quatrain
Mermaid
...we met in glass jars
on the Beagle in the Pacific
I'd never seen anything
like you before, your hair, your smile,
your huggable eyes, thrown together
by beards and tankards
grabbed from every ...
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Categories:
tankards, adventure, love, nature, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Trifolium Pollinated Courtesy Bombus
...Trifolium pollinated courtesy bombus
Before landscapers mow swaths
across undulating waves of clover
(the father/daughter team
usually cut grass every Tuesday)
bumblebees alight from one to an...
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Categories:
tankards, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Cluster of Poems With Luster Cleaned Off With My Duster
...she would sing with birds
known to set many records
drank many tankards?
she sure seemed so fine
my vivacious valentine
drank big Ballentine
Have you ever heard of
Ballentine Beer Before...
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Categories:
tankards, allegory, analogy,
Form: Senryu
A Ghostly Tear
...`
O’ crooked branch and magpie’s claw,
yon rusted chains a’ sway this night
Clutch tight a sign “The Seagull's Squall”
of splintered wood and storm clouds fight
Old tavern lone this craggy...
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Categories:
tankards, dark, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Viva La Morning Sun
...Viva la morning sun
Midnight, dark night, no light, can’t go.
So dark, so quiet, so I guess the neighbours are not home.
Waiting for sleep to arrive, but it never does on time.
Still waiting ...
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Categories:
tankards, dark, dream, imagery, morning,
Form: Bio
Catapulting Bears
...I once lived in high Montana
and I knew a man who live there,
went by the name Rodrigo,
known to most for his wild hair.
But Roddy didn’t grow it long
to try and impress some girl,
Roddy was ...
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Categories:
tankards, adventure, fun, humor, light,
Form: Narrative
Last Call
...Jo King loved frothy tankards of beer
Which she drank every day of the year
Interred in a keg
She swallowed each dreg
So her tombstone reads, "Wish you were here!"...
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Categories:
tankards, culture, drink, grave, humor,
Form: Limerick
A Swede, a Dane and Two Norwegians
...Everyone who has money
should drop it in a vat and
anyone who needs money
should take what they need
a Swede, a Dane and two
Norwegians tell Fred, also an
economist who flew in from Yale....
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Categories:
tankards, money,
Form: Blank verse
Hilda's Family Reunion
...Paddy didn't want to go to his wife's family reunion. He told her that in the same nice way he had told her in years past so as to avoid other reunions over the many years they had been married. Hild...
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Categories:
tankards, family, marriage,
Form: Prose
Three Witches, a Love Story
...THREE WITCHES A LOVE SONNET
Three ancient, rotten, horrid, witches
just awoke from their daytime snore,
These evil, reeking, damaged, sisters,
Cursed the land for thirty-five score.
As th...
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Categories:
tankards, beauty, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Holy Hunger
...(A Salute to Emily Dickinson)
I taste a liquor never brewed
In structured vats of men
Not all the tankards ever filled
Could reign this nectar in
Inebriate of Christ am I
His words I’m sipp...
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Categories:
tankards, metaphor,
Form: Quatrain
For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam - a Name Like Shakespeare's For Some Other Giants - Part Two
...For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam – a name like Shakespeare’s for “some” other giants – Part Two
III
Is there an answer to this gaping question
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Categories:
tankards, confidence, dedication, devotion, humanity,
Form: Quatrain
The Mysterious Tankards of Dunkirk Hill
...For Didds
Four tankards found at the foot of the hill
Bet someone got w*nkered, and now they feel ill
Bet it went down so easy that no one resisted
And now they’ve forgotten the tankards existe...
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Categories:
tankards, drink, england, humor, lost,
Form: Rhyme
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