The Packer's Weed Whacker
...Mrs. Packer bought a weed whacker
So, her husband could trim the grass
But he was a slacker
Thus, ever after
The whacker was out of gas...
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Categories:
whacker, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Weed Whacker
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A line trimmer doesn’t really eat;
That’s a trick that would be quite neat.
Instead, it tends to aerosolize,
Throw grass in your nose and rocks in your eyes.
Turns poison ivy to a fine...
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Categories:
whacker, silly, work,
Form: Couplet
Faerie With a Kookaburra
...What kind of faerie has her very own kookaburra?
I do not own him, he is my best friend, the tree faerie said.
But he is always with you, helping you dust the willy whacker leaves.
He does that by...
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Categories:
whacker, fairy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dumbstruck-Dk
...I’m dumbstruck by the good luck
Of a woodchuck on a spree
The harmony of living well
And laughing heartily
But still, I often wonder
In a jungle canopy
If nature is the nurture
Of the fores...
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Categories:
whacker, passion, planet, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Mcvite Digestives
...For one hundred and twenty-nine years McVities’ digestives have been eaten.
They are touted as good for digestion, and their chocolate version cannot be beaten.
Tesco, Doves Farm and Mark and Spenc...
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Categories:
whacker, food,
Form: Rhyme
I'Ll Never Forget What's Her Name
...I’ll never forget What’s Her Name
The one with the long black hair that was always dying the tips?
No.
The one with the curly red hair who came on to me at the Christmas party?
WHAT Christmas par...
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Categories:
whacker, age, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Knackered Nonsense
...(to be read out loud)
I'll eat the nibble naggle nooky nickel
nipple nappy mum mum mum
I'll chew your gooble gobble giggle gaggle
gimpy grampa's gum gum gum.
I'll call the wimpy wappy wi...
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Categories:
whacker, humor, imagination, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Animal Peril
...Me with a dog,owl,and parrot
Met a girl with a llama and horse
Out in the country beside a tree
What to do? Well, we stopped of course
Talking to my small gang of friends
I asked,"What's that...
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Categories:
whacker, fantasy, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Morning Noises
...Police and fire sirens blare
An early emergency somewhere
Neighbor’s water squeaking thro’ the pipes
Two cats clawing each other’s stripes
Traffic hums and honks, tires squeal
In such a hur...
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Categories:
whacker, city, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Walking My Tiger Home
...when just a lad, in skinny pad
the kids all picked on me
so hatched, I did, a brilliant plan
to make those meanies flee;
at home, you’ll know, were two young gals
both younger tha...
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Categories:
whacker, little sister,
Form: Rhyme
At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
...At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love life it was a massive blow...
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Categories:
whacker, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Did Jesus Exist
...Did Jesus Exist?
Some say 2000 years ago,
A man called Jesus walked about;
But I say, not as god or indigo,
But as a medical doctor stout.
Jesus was an Israeli name then,
And there maybe...
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Categories:
whacker, birth, christian, god, gospel,
Form: Quatrain
Weed Whacker
...Weed Whacker
I whack the weeds
and free their seeds
then fertilize
as seedlings breed
encroaching on
the flower bed
forgive me Lord
I wish them dead!!
John G. Lawless
7/9/2014...
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Categories:
whacker, garden, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Why Do Me Like That
...Don't sit there and grin at me
when I sat there and cried for you.
Why do me like that?
Feel the pain deep in my soul,
don't look past those dull eyes.
Why do me like that?
Taste the tears I sh...
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Categories:
whacker, cry, dark, deep, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Itchy Warrior
...By the bypass
Monologue
Stay put
Like a still mosaic
What is detrimental?
I am spinning 360 degrees
The whacker...
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Categories:
whacker, addiction,
Form: Acrostic
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