Engage or Disengage

My writing's unconventional

My head is kinda shot

My readers don't know what to do

To stay or to stay not

I push our social boundaries

Convention I abhor

My lines can be emotional

At times a little raw

I pour the rush and tumble of

My mind out on the page

It's up to you as reader to

Engage or disengage

Don Matthews Augu...

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Are You in a Dark Mindset?

I ask are you in a dark mindset?

Do you only have you in this world?

That people will lie, cheat, betray you?

You withdraw from the world and stay curled?

Are you into the cult of the individual?

Don't believe you can trust anyone, or embrace?

Not ever let yourself go be vulnerable?

If so you're in a tightly wound, very dark place

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Rudder, Drive

My two sides, Comic, Serious

Are playing round with me

Tangling with my thinking

You two, let me be

Do not ignore us Poet

You need us to survive

Just let us guide you through life

We are your rudder, drive

Don Matthews November 2018

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Blog

I want to call it 'weblog'

But others want it 'blog'

It's 'nuf to drive me drinking

Driving me to grog

I like to think I'm cultured

Queen's English, and all that

But 'blog' does not Queen's English make

Nor does this thing, 'blog chat'

Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned, but

To call it 'blog' sounds yukky,

I want to keep my standards up

Not let t...

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Fear in the US

The US mass media now tell us

Their Government, court systems, I hear

Are not what they were once set up for

But have changed and are now based on fear

Fear that the President will hear

That an individual disagrees with him

And has revealed this opinion to the public

Via mass media, and so it gets grim

A career can be cut short in an instant

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Losing It

Preamble

This week's Rhymer Club theme is fire.  Here is my contribution.

I'm losing my spark and my fire

Cos comments are few and quite far

Do you think I am coming 'cross serious ?

Or coming 'cross with some hoo-ha ?

Don Matthews  November 2018

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ATM. No Give Rupee

In India an ATM

Stopped dead and wouldn't zip

Rupee notes when asked to

Out of it's slit lip

Rupee-wanting Indians were

Puzzled by this beast

Which all at once did utter

“Inside there is a feast”

Runners of the ATM

Did hear about this feast

And wanted to examine

Inside this feasting beast

You won't believe what they did ...

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I Wasn't Expecting This My Mind !

What am I gonna write about?

Come on, my mind, come forth

Give me something worthwhile

Of which I see some worth

Shit. Excuse expletive

Your worth was unexpected

Your worths are often playful

But this one's well directed

You say that I should write about

The pain and strife in life

I hoped for something pain-free

...

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Listening to the Blues

I'm sitting in a cafe

Listening to the blues

Wondering what to write about

Staring at my shoes

What a useless first verse

Meaningless and trite

What a waste of paper

Full of garbage, tripe !

You'd think that I, a poet

Could look for something deeper

To make my verse more meaningful

Not rubbish for a sweeper

Lift your...

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World Toilet Day 19 November

Preamble

The following people have no adequate sanitation. India 818 million, China 607 million, Indonesia 109 million, Nigeria 103 million, Pakistan 98 million

Do not laugh at World Toilet Day

2.5 billion people don't have

Access to any kind of toilet

Whether personal or community type lav

They urinate and defecate where they can

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Yoshitoka Sakurada : Japan's Minister of Cybersecurity

Japan has a minister in charge

Of cybersecurity

But admits he has no idea 'bout

Computers or things USB

He's in charge of their next Tokyo Olympics

Has an aide to do all of his work

Insists all their work it is flawless

“In my department no confusion lurks”

Don Matthews November 2018

https://yo...

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Mary and Jack

Preamble

This is a little-known story about Little Jack Horner and Contrary Mary. It has not been published in any kiddies book as far as I'm aware.  I was fortunate in  already having written about Little Jack when this was assigned as our Rhymer Club theme for this week.  It was written last year when I was still learning the art of rhyme and only felt comfortable with t...

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Setting the Bar

Are you a rhyming poet someone

Asked me yesterday?

To which I heard myself reply

I like its rhymic way

They said that nursery rhyming was

Frowned upon these days

To which I heard myself reply

Yes, if it cliches

So how do you perceive as good

Rhyming poetry?

It has to flow, be subtlety done

And meet a bar, to me

You see I re...

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69 to 45

Dutchman Emile Ratelband has

A problem at 69

The ladies will not date him

They think he's past his prime

He says he's got the body of

A hunk of 45

And wants to make things happen

So he can come alive

To him the answer's simple

He's asked the court to lower

His birth certificate twenty years

So he can be a 'wower'

Don Matthews Nove...

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What Do I Write To Increase Comment?

What do I write

To increase comment?

Write doom and gloom?

Or fun I want sent?

There seems so much written

About doom and gloom

I prefer laughter

Brightening the room

But...

Seems I could risk

Losing comment

Despite it's my laughter

I want to see sent

Don Matthews August 2018

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Teaching Brian Drivel

Brian thinks what I write it is drivel

I guess he's entitled to his view

But methinks he is quite simply jealous

'Cause he can't write good drivel too

I'm trying to teach him in private

Not charging pounds, shillings or pence

(Forgot you're now working in euros)

Shit! Now I feel stupid and dense

You thought this a genuine mistake Bria...

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Owl Mail

Stamps will soon bear the magic of Harry

Potter of JK Rawlings fame

Featuring Harry, Hermione Granger

Ron Weasley and Ginny Weasley by name

Letters were sent here and there

And carried by reliable owls

Her Majesty's Post could not use this

Method as the unions would get foul

Don Matthews October 2018

Training the owls Warner Brothers Studi...

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What I've Done Is Dun

How important's spelling?

To me, or not to me?

Adhering to the rules laid down

To be, or not to be

The trouble is I'm wayward

The words must fit my rhymes

Which means the spelling might change

Not look quite right at times

As long as you can follow

Understanding what I've done

What will be, what will be

And what I've done is ...

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Preamble

This weeks Saturday Rymers Club theme is leaving home.  Here is my contribution

Leaving Home

The giant oak grew alongside us

A green majestic dome

When autumn came it did it's thing

And went and leaved our home

Don Matthews November 2018

https://youtu.be/OKrzcwZjuYY

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Stir-Ups

Do you get stirred up like I do ?

Seeing people breed greed all around

Wanting to grab more from each other

Not content to stay put in their ground

Do you get stirred up like I do ?

Seeing people empathising with others

Not driven by what they can gain

But treating all people like brothers

Progressing through life with my stir-ups

I fret when I...

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Stick It Up Your Selfie

Something's gone wrong with our young kids

They're busy taking selfies, wanting 'likes'

They've forgotten to enjoy the real scenery

How to enjoy nature and take off on hikes

All they are wanting to do now

These selfie-tourists, pose, click, move on

Is move to the next scenic backdrop

Judging places by 'likes' others put on

In anothe...

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Learning Poet

I am a poet learning

Learning to be wise

Stringing words together

For poems to arise

I am a poet learning

About iamb, trochee

How to use the language

Use it skilfully

I am a learning poet

My mind is rhyme embedded

My metronome keeps beating

The three of us are wedded

I want to learn my own way

Up this rhymic hill

That I...

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Thought-Jumps

Synaptic–snapping neurons

Racing round my brain

Pushing me in thought-jumps

Again, again, again

Slow down racing neurons

Don't over-tax my brain

Don't push my rapid thought-jumps

I want my brain still sane

We neurons will unite

To keep your brain still sane

And stop synaptic-snapping

And settle down again

Don Matthews April 2...

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Rapper Kayne Meets Trump

Rapper Kayne West was invited

To lunch with Don Trump for a talk

But what was to be a staid, ordinary occasion

Turned into a run, not a walk

Kayne he leapt up, hugged the President

Saying “I love this guy” (to you'se all)

And talked at rapping speed on all subjects

Young Kayne he was having a ball

Trump he said “that was quite some...

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Oops...

In Belgium a jet fighter worker

Did make an expensive mistake

One that he'll always remember

One that he'll no longer make

A 27 million dollar jet fighter

Was filled with high explosive kero fuel

Having finished his maintenance on this one

He moved to the next with his tools

On commencing his check of the next one

By mistake he unleashed a volle...

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The Trouble Is the Clubbers

Our Clubber's theme for this week is

Getting motivated

I'm having lots of trouble here

I'm getting so frustrated

You see my problem's different

From what you might expect

I want to motivate myself

To lazy and neglect

The trouble is the Clubbers

Won't let me motivate

Myself to where I want to be

Lazy and prostrate

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Disrespect Can Lead To Domestic Violence. Stop It Where It Starts

Preamble

In Australia one woman is murdered each week at the hands of their spouse or ex spouse. The root cause is disrespect.  I have included two videos to make my point.

When we excuse disrespect

OK it, and sit on the fence

There's a danger we'll set up a path

A path which could lead down to viole...

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Hello There...

In 1961 some Finnish migrants

Went down to a busy local street

To see what new cars they might witness

What cars in this country they'd meet

Each driver they saw put their arm out

And wave it around as they turned

The new migrants then did go wave back

A nice happy greeting in return

Don Matthews October 2018

https://youtu.be/hUxkvb2...

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