The Ghost of Christmas Present
...Terrence the Turkey was feeling quite perky
Passing time in his rafter and doing no harm
No fighting nor squabbling, just gabbling and gobbling
Turkey talking turkey down on the farm.
Whilst ha...
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Categories:
worktop, adventure, animal, bird, celebration,
Form: Quatrain
The Writer
...A small paradise island,
In the Caribbean Sea,
Rain comes once a year,
Sure does sound like ecstasy.
It’s not in travel brochures,
And there is no airport here,
The population’s seventy,
Not a...
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Categories:
worktop, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
I Know This Heartbreak
...How many times can your heartbreak
How many times must I feel this ache,
Like an old friend we are well acquainted
Leaving big holes in my soul and life tainted,
I sit here now crying r...
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Categories:
worktop, death, farewell, i miss
Form: Elegy
A Story Told
...look at the state of you
your face turned up
as if i were rotten
saying your a bloody mess
one's heart falls in hurt
a deep churning pain
in its ache
hunting me back home
deep inside
i begin to cr...
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Categories:
worktop, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Distressed
...Distressed by Rob Barratt
My furniture is all distressed
It's unusually unstable
The oak bookcase is quite depressed
As is the coffee table
The worktop has a thin veneer
It seethes beneath the surf...
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Categories:
worktop, stress,
Form: Rhyme