Beef Wellington
trust your gut, to know
it growls for truth, loud and strong
it's n'er found wanting,
or that's how the saying goes -
but skip fungal feasts of mold
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Categories:
wellington, food,
Form: Tanka
Wellington - 1769-1852 And Bonaparte - 1769-1821
'England is a nation of shopkeepers'
was never said by Bonaparte
but it was those self-same tradesmen
who kicked Napoleon’s ****
and
when at Waterloo they met
as he won the day
to give it a positive spin
one may only say,
"Wellington put the boot in!"
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Categories:
wellington, celebrity, england, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Wellington Gate
His walk into town would prove fateful that day,
As his mind wandered idly while finding his way.
His footsteps were brisk like fall chill in the air,
Past Wellington Gate, south of Denby town square.
He paused for a time as the hearse passed him by.
Its dark, somber outline contrasting the sky.
Stood still as it turned in through
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Categories:
wellington, death, emotions, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Narrative
Wellington Bomber
the wellington bomber dropped something
people screamed and ran for cover
but then paper pieces fell
softly fluttering down
falling like snowflakes
someone shouted:
it’s raining
dollar
bills
Jack Horne for Nette’s Imagination contest, 7th June
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Categories:
wellington, fantasy,
Form: Nonet
A Lesson From Love (To Joy Elaine Wellington)
It did not seem so then, but O I wish again
I could spend those days of joy with you
For there I learned that joy is just a rain
That must disappear sometime that a dew
May sparkle on a rose
And a cloud may have meaning in our woes
You left me when in the drought of love, so
Would
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Categories:
wellington, dedication, inspirational, lovejoy, love,
Form: Verse
Joy Elaine Wellington
Joy, they named for themselves, the future's blind
Oyster to drink your sand. In salt tides love rises
Yearning to part the twinning shell and there resign.
Empress of the emerald seas, my ship for rich prizes
Listed its name, cargoing only your pure laden weight
Anchorless against the blustering report of bad winds.
I desired you alone, and for you
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Categories:
wellington, education, lost love
Form: Acrostic
Wellington
I found myself shedding a tear at a train seat upon seeing the sights leaving the Wellington city train port to Woburn.
I don't mind being called a sentimental freak, if I could just have any describe more than I can the beauty that leaves
one more than enamored, bewildered and perplexed. How is it possible
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Categories:
wellington, nature, places, beauty, beauty,
Form: Narrative