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- Anti-Christ/ening at sharepoetry
Like any child conceived / Thought the best ever got / It's easy to imagine / What was said as like as not / And to envisage his kindred / Arrayed around his cot / Engaged at coo-cooing / This innocent tot / A man yet to be his country's u - Oscar Performance at sharepoetry
I stand before an audience / Without the wit to say / Anything sensible today / Oscar was such a big surprise / That I should win this golden prize / I tried to win for years and years / I am speechless yet go on for ages / Shy as you know n - Perfect Girlfriend at sharepoetry
A rubber girlfriend understands / Will not fend off affectionate hands / Doesn’t have periods of dejection / No risk therefore of nasty disaffection; / Cannot annoy and never nags / And even if she limply sags / May simply bounce back later, - Oliver Twist (adapted freely in verse) at sharepoetry
The boy who famously asked for more, / A morsel on his plate was all he saw, / The undying character of Oliver Twist / Whose tale of unease is hard to resist. / / When Dickens wrote of his little lad / He purposed to make his readers sad - And on the Thirteenth Day of Christmas ... at sharepoetry
(Bids now open on eBay) / / A partridge in a pear tree / Two turtle doves / Three french hens / Four colly birds / Five gold rings / Six geese a-laying / Seven swans a-swimming / Eight maids a-milking / Nine ladies dancing - In Snowman's Land at sharepoetry
The construction may have been precipitately wrought, / But solidly put together its many architects had thought; / It had been unveiled to the world a controversial sight, / A work in human form exposed to probing partial light. / Structures - If the shoes fit at sharepoetry
Two guided missiles flew in Iraq / As shoes were on the other foot / A guest unwanted given the boot / / / - A Winter's Day at sharepoetry
On this raw and wintry day / Our people creep out of bed / Lingeringly gingerly is the way / As cold afflicts the head. / / Peering through protective glass / We see green vanished overnight, / Winter has trespassed on the grass / - Round Robin For Christmas (Parody) at sharepoetry
Dear all / / This year has been yet another providential one for our family. You'll see something of our Christmas chez nous in Hello magazine, you know all those technicolour nonsense shots around the Agha like she who shares my bed would ever dirt - A Rhyme in Time at sharepoetry
I wrote this line at my terminal peril / A siren drew me to this chick Beryl / Though I knew no girl of that name / It was her or Cheryl either‘s the same / The jigsaw piece dovetailed so fittingly / The need in me to rhyme unwittingly / A fix - Swindler's List at sharepoetry
Swindler’s List / / Memo to self / Meet mark / Take to cleaners / Do shopping / Early night / Big con tomorrow - Passport Declaration at sharepoetry
Please don’t kill me / I’m a stranger / Who represents to you / No danger / I am just a simple poet / Who loves his fellow man / And wants all to know it / I am not defined by my / Nationality / I am an individual / Possessed - Thief of Baghdad at sharepoetry
Junior wished to be as big in the oil business as his namesake father / / He wished to be the one to rule the World just like old George Senior / / He wished to reign supreme over Baghdad unlike his famous father / / He wished to become a p - THEODORA (1500 Years BC = Before Clinton) at sharepoetry
Theodora wife of Emporor Justinian 1 is considered a great female figure of the Byzantine Empire, and a pioneer of feminism, because of the laws she passed, increasing the rights of women. As a result of Theodora's efforts, the status of women in the Byza - On seeing an urban fox at sharepoetry
I saw this feral urban fox / Foot in our suburban yard / Wild life in my townie box / We both stared long and hard / Unlike some of a thuggish bent / I always liked our British fox / Would not set hounds upon their scent / But appreciate th - Ye Olde Chain Mail at sharepoetry
Enclosed thou shall find within / Armour of burnished chain mail / Ye charmed suit of toledo steel / Shallst grant yee fortune in battle / Only should thee and straightway / Convey thy mail to a confidante / Thence to four of thine stalwa - Moment of Weakness at sharepoetry
Public Apology: / / I have to apologise for a terrible mistake, / Not that of booking that internet hooker - / I meant to, wanted it real bad, no mistake; / Nor a costly one of paying $5,000 up front, / Or my now miss-taken sacred marital vo - Culture Misunderstanding circa 1980 at sharepoetry
A friend of mine named Dave anecdoted / A lucid moment from youthful crazy 70's days; / A bad happening filtered through the purple haze / Of clouded memory as if replayed just yesterday. / He lived in London during deadbeat single times / - Tale Of Old London Town at sharepoetry
A striking event today of a curious nature most interesting, / And one indeed very worthy of delineating in the old diary. / I was cutting along Fleet Street at about 10 in the forenoon / When a fellow accosted me outside that rather good pie sho - Soldiers Blue at sharepoetry
In days when the plains thundered with thousands of hooves / Nature’s bounty was as munificent as the brightening dawn / That warmed the chilled hides of the by now fireless tepees / The stirring bodies grudgingly quit proximity to spent embers - Clinton Card (Clinton Cards is a chain of stores in the UK ) at sharepoetry
Elect me elect me / Elect me do / Select me select me / Oh do please do / If you don't I'll go boo hoo / It's cost me such a lot of money / Not to choose me would not be funny / I want to go back to my old White House / Try to forg - Electoral Rhetoric at sharepoetry
God is on the US side / God pimps their ride / Is God a candidate? / His blessing on all / Is a given, bless'em! / Sins? God'll redress'em / Greatest country says them / God's bestest biggest acre; / Self praise is worthless you kn - A Christening at sharepoetry
Like any child conceived / Thought the best ever got / It's easy to imagine / What was said as like as not / And to envisage his kindred / Staged round his cot / Engaged at coo-cooing / The innocent tot / A man yet to be his countr - Seen by the river at sharepoetry
Two ducks together I see / In a river’s fast flow / Off the main eddy / Toward a bank’s side, / Both wriggle gleefully / Massaged by a weedy Jacuzzi. / Graceful mute swans I see / In their mutual revery, / Swimming by me blissfully / Gli - What if you were a major poet? at sharepoetry
Think if you had been Robert Owen / Strangely not your little old self / You’d have learned from beastly war / Suffered as did the World War poets / Such insufferable iniquities for what? / So early dead, and posterity’s reputation / Oh - Accident at sharepoetry
Recovery room, coming round / He had survived a terrible accident. / As his mind cleared of anaesthetic sleep / It all came flooding back to him / Being run over and something else / He could not quite grasp, what was it now? / Something his m - [ Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:33 am Post subject: Tomb It Concerns ] at sharepoetry
Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:33 am Post subject: Tomb It Concerns / / -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- / / Penetrating that dark recess / Who could even possibly guess / What splendour t - A Salty Tale at sharepoetry
My name is Ishmael / My story emanates from a whale / At its core is a peg-legged sailor / He and I and our rugged tale / Of our time upon a whaler. / Captain Ahab was an acidic salt / That deserved to be called hard bitten / As he li - Road Kill at sharepoetry
You pass this sort of sight on a daily basis comma / Alive once now reduced to life’s merest traces hyphen / Smeared regularly across any common thoroughfare enjambment / Is the road kill which simply proliferates nearly everywhere semi dash colo - Not A Prayer at sharepoetry
Our Bush who is artless in the White House / How lowly is your name? / Your will is done, / Sending souls to kingdom come, / While you're number one / On Earth at this moment in time. / For yours is the power / Unfortunately not the g - An early dawn for a Man at sharepoetry
(Inspired by 2001 as a big Arthur C Clarke fan) / / A bulky hirsute hulk shifts in a slate grey crevice of rock / Sleep tremour shaking as in somunambulating shock / It's poking penetrating to the creature’s cerebral core / Evoking a fright - A Country Stroll at sharepoetry
Woolly-coated quadrupeds I met one day while rambling, / As I negotiated a verdant meadow as I went gaily ambling / Through cowslips and foxgloves and the sheep who ran amok / And I cried out “O creatures stay I did not intend to shock - / You - If you could at sharepoetry
If you could paint as neatly as Jackson Pollock / Or shanked off line as often as Tiger Woods / Were as trustworthy as Benedict Arnold / Or as sober living as was Dean Martin / Mayhap as erudite as one G W Bush / Or as sporting as loyal Ton - New proverb for the new millenium at sharepoetry
A white dove of peace in the hand / Is worth two in the White House. - A religious certainty at sharepoetry
All creatures of this fertile world by some means / Or man woman or nature here somehow hurled / And no-one knows the wherefore for certain why? / Really - no matter how they fruitlessly might try / Absurdly thus we all were scattered not know
