Tag: comic verse
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July 10, 2008 04:29 PM EDT --
St Brigid did not apply for the role of Patron Saint of Poetry and when she was asked to judge the Celestial Festival of Poetry competition her comments proved to be controversial and caused . . .
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September 10, 2008 08:01 AM EDT --
Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird' Should be Withdrawn from Public Libraries.
‘To Kill a Mockingbird' should be withdrawn
From public libraries. It puts to scorn
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December 06, 2008 09:33 AM EST --
In the Hole!
Perhaps fatigue or stress had cramped my style
But I was wilting, flaccid, losing nerve,
Frustrated with myself as all the while
My eager partner rued my lack of verve.
Try as . . .
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January 13, 2009 10:08 AM EST --
Paris, December, 2008
D espite the winter chill the Champs Elysees
Was thronged with Christmas shoppers (dressed in black
Parading like louche priests or nuns, the lack
Of color . . .
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June 01, 2009 12:11 PM EDT --
Godot Awaits
Evening. Godot and Miko sit in the shade of a fig tree.
GODOT: No sign of life. Perhaps I fell asleep
Again. What's to be done? This was the . . .
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May 22, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
The Eighteenth Hole
(An Ode to the Callaway in Five Strokes)
. . .
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June 28, 2008 04:28 AM EDT --
Ever noticed how, as you get older, you begin to look like your parents?
Villanelle
I'm sleeping with my mother-in-law,
My wife is . . .
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November 20, 2009 11:27 AM EST --
SNIFF!
The reek of ape or pig suggests the pall
That we disguise with sweetly scented oil.
Recall that great aunt’s lavender embrace,
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February 06, 2009 04:55 AM EST --
Half-rhyme
The trouble . . .
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July 27, 2009 01:49 PM EDT --
Cars Go
Range Rover four-by-four on suburban school-run
Crawling over speed-bumps in the lanes of Chelsea
With Rupert, Josh and Jasmine
Watching Harry Potter
Their in-car . . .
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October 19, 2009 03:58 AM EDT --
DILLY DANDY
We’re off with Dilly Dandy
Where the trees are made of candy,
The girls are . . .
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February 01, 2008 11:32 AM EST --
I have not brougt any verse to Gather for a while, no reason except I lost interest in the site. Anyway, I decided its time to up my visibility so here we go...
Whenever our leaders make a . . .
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February 08, 2008 12:01 PM EST --
FINGERS -the video (click this link)
Fingers
(text version for people on slow connections)
Fingers hold your sandwiches
And fingers scratch your head
And fingers . . .
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February 14, 2008 11:11 AM EST --
(Love looks not with eyes but with the mind: - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 scene 1)
There was an Italian waiter
who dated a girl named Ruth Slater,
They did something . . .
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July 29, 2008 11:06 AM EDT --
Plenty of religious zealots have been styled "The Hound Of God" for their unrelenting pursuit of "heretics." With that in mind I wrote this piece of Doggerel to chronicle the efforts . . .
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March 01, 2008 01:24 PM EST --
Voices provided by Teri Thorpe - we had a lot of fun recording this. My wife is a trained singer so put a mic. in her hand and she comes over Maria Callas. So there was I saying, "Look its wannawannawanna," . . .
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