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Lady in red
Thems were the times my mate Way back in eighty eight Just you and me, footloose and fancy free We’d go wher’er we felt No need to tighten belts The two of us, no need to catch a bus We had great...
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October poetry competition: Charity
BillStruth! Yet more evidence that the world is bonkers. I won a poetry competition. Nevertheless, this is one of the happiest days of my life. The theme for the next competition is Charity. You can...
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An effigy
Who’ll sit atop your bonfire this eve? The current trend would you believe Is someone famous, an effigy A simple guy is, oh so passé Celebrities and politicians Royalty or sports officials Dead or...
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Poof!
Magic is in the air … Poof! Wow it’s a rabbit white and twitching pulled from a hat well how bewitching just like that from a shiny black hat; Abracadabra – blow me, a dove! well Lord above there’s...
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Spring poetry results
As stimulus packages go, I would like to thank Christopher for reigniting the fun challenges that we set from time to time, his timely coup during February and subsequent quantitative (t)easing has...
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More than a Rainbow
It was a Saperstein grey day the aliens came to town Needing perfect hued specimens for their outer space museum They decided to land at William Henry Perkinville Their saucer a porcelain magenta as...
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We didn’t start the blogging
Tocino, Bravo, the wolf cousin O Zangado Gaz, Jazz, razzmatazz, Mrs O’s flowers in a vase Pseu’s a snapper, Donald’s laughter, gardening matters The poetry prize we’re all after G’day Bearsy, Howzit...
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Animals (September poetry competition)
One of the problems of winning the poetry competition is racking the brain cells to come up with an interesting theme for the next one. I’m surprised no one has done a George C Scott and declined the...
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Ungrateful? Not me!
My thanks to Madiba for giving me democracy and his able successor, Thabo ~ baai baai danke For guiding us through those difficult years took patience and courage to allay people’s fears. My thanks too...
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Giving thanks
Giving thanks? It’s what they do in church innit! Our Father in the larder Give us our daily bread. But thanks for what? For what we got? For shredded wheat, for shoes on feet? For rain or sun I...
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