Tandoori or Tangerine Tan shorts no2
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Satsuma Tumour
Sense of Humour?
That Groomer Rumour
Cometh the Hour
Cometh the TAN!
People Power Glower should Flower
Grassy brassy knolls
But proles at the polls
Sold t...
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Categories:
tumour, political,
Form: Rhyme
Tangerine or Tandoori Tan Man - full version
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Tandoori or Tangerine Tan?
Mister rich lister Blister
Sinister Mandarin Minister
Sin..Spin & Chagrin Talisman
Jaundice scrotum prejudice totem
Podium pandemonium
Needs Imodium....
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Categories:
tumour, education, political, society,
Form: Free verse
Baby Boomers
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Late bloomer
Candour...humour
Va Va voomer
Or
Rumour..groomer
Consumer...tumour
Boomer espuma
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Categories:
tumour, society,
Form: Rhyme
WTC Remember Temba
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Lovingly lauded.. they marauded.. rightly applauded
Saffa gaffers did thrill
Willow wielding wizards of Oz
Yielding…lampooned..marooned..jaffas
Festooned spill just like Seville .
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Categories:
tumour, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Rock Gods
...It’s fifty years since people said
Look… on the tele… Hitler
And maybe you just sat there stunned
Like something big had bit ya
There, on the keyboard, Ronald Mael
His brother, Russ, the sing...
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Categories:
tumour, music,
Form: Rhyme
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
...TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
I may be thought aloof and cold
Maybe even more so, as I’m old
Not dull lead, nor yet shiny gold
Perhaps a weird sense of humour
Yet all along, it may be a tumour
If unsur...
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Categories:
tumour, identity,
Form: Ode
JIMMY
...After my young wife died tragically, I decided to move away
Memories we made in our house were painful; I couldn’t stay
I’d often remember that phone call from her doctor who’d said
"John, you...
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Categories:
tumour, america, boy, death, death
Form: Narrative
Workforce
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So they have decided,
It's come right from the top,
Governments reaction,
My benefits should stop,
They think that 2 years of grief is enough,
But no matter how hard a couples enough,
Y...
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Categories:
tumour, anxiety, cancer, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Black Black Black - Surrealism Nonsense Poetry
...the growth that all a person has
sinister growth like fungus or tumour
sprouting protruding
scrouting grotruding
a growth growing
with light
black black black
flat flat flat
mirroring our dan...
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Categories:
tumour, dark, fun, nonsense, scary,
Form: Light Verse
Towards the light
...Today was the day my partner would go,
Through the tunnel of light and her pain was no more,
My pain begins the end I don't know,
Today is no different the pain seems to grow,
I had the miser...
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Categories:
tumour, bereavement, cancer, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Bio-Wars: A Son Lost
...A tumour abated alters and waits.
Pathway incised, a new one it makes.
Spreading and forming, roots growing down.
The moment’s now here, a mighty rebound.
Battle exhausted, the bones ache and c...
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Categories:
tumour, allegory, cancer, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Better To Be
...Better to be an honest and shrewd man than to be an innocent dolt,
Better to be an enlightened pagan than to be a short-sighted piece of flesh and bone,
Better to be a frugal voluptuary than to be ...
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Categories:
tumour, courage, motivation, tribute, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Twenty-Five Days - A
...drove for thirty minutes to the subway station, took a train for forty minutes, got into another for only ten minutes, and reached Queen's Park. Mornings are so hectic, people are rushing to their wo...
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Categories:
tumour, cancer, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Protraction of the Epiphany
...The Protraction of the Epiphany
Complacency in a stilted light of regret
Vagrancy in a jilted sight of neglect
Emergency in a wilted light of insects
The urgency of a curative substance to inj...
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Categories:
tumour, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
We Were Playful
...I have a mixed diagnosis after trying to kill myself, aged sixteen. Just after six months in hospital,
“I’m worse now “, “Than when I went in”, “I had clean arms back then.”
“I ran away from my p...
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Categories:
tumour, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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