Category Archives: Poetry

Ditties and rhyming couplets. Sometimes irreverent!

A Poem – They’ve gone and bought me slippers

They’ve gone and bought me slippers What will they think of next? I don’t need flamin’ slippers I know how to text! Then I’ll get a cardi Chequered patterned wool Choose a Stannah Stair Lift That’ll help me pull! It’s funny how the youngsters Pigeonhole the old Put them in to boxes The watch them …

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Winter Love

Easter love springs hope eternal Yet coming year could be infernal Bright new clothes and fluttering hearts Can sometimes herald doomed false starts   Like budding bush and daffodil Changing season’s bitter pill Better bear in mind the cost It’s often dashed by April frost   When love is born from summer heat Passions flaming, …

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Better Off Dead

I’ve always found it somewhat strange No! Surreal is the word The way we glorify the war In film and spoken word                         ~ This is no attempt to scorn Those men who paid the price Quite the opposite is true But wouldn’t it be nice                         ~ To look after the living …

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