Happy New Year Everyone

As a rhymer I'd be neglecting my duty

To not wish you a Happy New Year

Bate your breath as to what I might say next

To which you can say “Dear oh dear”

It's been bloody hot where I write from

Someone said “Hi you flaming galah”

My reaction to this as an Aussie

Is ha-bloody-ha-bloody-ha

(No offence Po....)

One fan of mine (wh...

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I gotta rhyme 'bout something

I gotta rhyme 'bout something

Can't let my WOLers down

They look on here each day for me

To throw some wise thoughts down

Can't come up with much thoughtful stuff

It's Sunday, my day off

Excuse me while I go refuel

With beer I will it quaff

Hey? That sounds like Shakespeare

Maybe there's wisdom here

To be quite hon...

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Stop, Go, Rover

Behind the wheel a dog

A dog? I've never seen

They say that they are colour-blind

Cannot tell red from green

Dog owners explain to Rover

If top light on he stops

Middle light means slow down

Go? Opposite to top

If you explain to Rover

How to use these lights

I think he will have many years

Of happy motoring sights
 

Don Matthew...

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40 Degrees

Please forgive me WOLers

I'm still in silly land

My thermostats not working

This poem's far from grand

Santa's given me

Books to read on holly's

40 degree temperature

I'm not real Santa-jolly

Gotta go and look

For a cool place and

One that doesn't use power

Beach! But damn there's sand

Flying round real gritty

Kicked up by so...

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Baby Shower

This year here a mother she cancelled

Her yet-to-be-born baby shower

Cos her family objected to her naming

The baby as Squire Sebastian Senator

She stressed she was not drunk at the time

It's just that she did like the name

Then there's another who named her child ….

Abcde.

PostScript

There are around 400 people in USA named Abcde

(Pronou...

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It's the Day Before Christmas

It's the day before Christmas

Is Santa a myth?

If you are in hiding

Please come out forthwith

If you are still thinking

Of pulling sleigh here

I'd check on the temperature

And not use reindeer

Our normal mode of pulling

Sleighs with a crew

Are frizzle-proof animals

We call kangaroos

It's the day before Christm...

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A Very Christmasy Saturday Rhyme

I feel like a man with no direction

No Rhymer Club theme saying “hey”

You gotta reign in wayward neurons

You gotta create what I say

You're thinking how come there's no Sat theme?

I'll give you one guess from my rhyme

It's that man dressed in red who's at fault here

Cos no-ones got rhyme-making time

But me? I'm retired, I g...

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Who Let This Aussie Grammar-Bender In?

You may be too busy at present

To read on your screen Aussie verse

Which bends Queenie's grammar like 'what next'?

(Good golly! this man is a curse)

Whoever did open up WOL's door?

To a poet like this larrikin?

'Twas Anya who said “it don't matter Don”

Just come on, and bring yourself in

(So I did...)

So here ...

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Add Blog EntryI'm Sorry,You're Addicted. Signed Rhyme

I'm trying to read the paper

Distract myself from rhyme

I'm suffering from overload

My paper should work fine

Page 1, page 2, it's working

Not a rhyme in sight

Relaxed I am, unloading

No more rhymic fight

Damn! Page 3, rhyme beckons

Iamb, trochee, gee

Whizz I'm trying to forget you

But rhyme ta...

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Brian Says Marmite is Superior.

What Nerve!

Brian Maryon's made an utterance

I really can't ignore

About our humble Vegemite

Which we down here adore

His utterence did come with

Much gusto and great verve

He claims Marmite's superior

To Vegemite – what nerve!

What does he base this claim on ?

Perhaps blessed by the Queen ?

Spread on toast for bre...

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Happy Little Hillbillys Counter

Preamble

(Hillbillys is a cafe = caff)

The little chap was wanting to

Show the caff and me

What he'd learned to just express

Mathematically

We listened so intently as

He began his count at one

And entertain the audience with

His just-learned number run

At twenty was he finished, yes?

(No way, he'd just begun)

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Cogitate

Preable

I thought I would dabble in a new genre of poetry appearing on the site (Ghouly-flppant)  I hope you like it.  Rhyme adds a nice touch don't you think?

I'm tearing the sky open
And drinking from it's neck
Blood which pours out freely
I drink (so what the heck?)

Because I'm only drinking
And not injecting thus
Catching scare diseases does not
Give me any fuss

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Late Arrival

A birthday card was sent

From UK on May 3

Arrived in Aus on 22

November (oh gosh gee)

The address and the postcode

Yes, were all spot on

So where had it been sitting

All this time while gone?

Don Matthews December 2018

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Sisters are a Funny Mix

Preamble

This week's theme is sisters.  Here is my contribution.

I'm struggling hard with this one

Whatever I write down

Seems so bland, so lifeless

Hardly a poet's crown

So thought at least I'd go put

Some sparkle to my pome

And add a little youtube clip

'Siblings while at home'

Don Matthews December 2018

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From Corner Looking Out

Preamble

I'm not sure about this.  It seems too simple. I change grammar, leaving words out.  What will others think?  It doesn't matter what others think Don.  You write for yourself.  You've said this often

I sit in corner looking

Round my favourite caff

People coming, going

Making smile, and laugh

But every now (less often)

I feel a touc...

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Neurons Are Like People

At times my mind is like

A whirling swirling storm

Neurons doing what they want

(I know this 'aint the norm)

A mind that stays in norm-mode

Has neurons that obey

Directions from their master

And don't stray too far 'way

But neurons are like people

They want to do their thing

But if they're too directed

New things they canno...

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Could be Interesting. Could be Garbage

I like playing with ideas

And the English language 

Mixing things up

Tossing them round

Being unconventional 

Pushing boundaries 

Seeing what comes out

Could be interesting

Could be garbage

Don Matthews June 2017

"The most damaging phrase in the English language is

"It's always been done this way'...

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This Is a Weird One

A religious cult leader in Australia

Says God is as angry as hell

The Tax Office is trying to strip him

Of millions he owes them as well

He claims that our natural disasters

Are divine retributions God-made

For the Tax Office chasing his money

Who want his tax debts all repaid

With all his assets sadly frozen

He has flown to Fiji, ru...

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I'm Confused

I keep on being told

We need more people for

Economic growth to happen

Increase our people core

Hang on? I am confused

There seems to be some hitch

Countries very populated

Why aren't they stinking rich?

More people create more products

But spread around with more

It seems that no-one's better off

No better than before

Don Mat...

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Rebel

Break the rules my shadow said

Standing 'longside me

Do you want to stay trapped in

Conventionality ?

Conform like all the others

Sitting on the shelf ?

Predictable and frightened

Afraid to be them themself

No! rebellion's in me

Keeps coming to the fore

To do my thing regardless

Of all poetic laws

The rules say spell correctly

But...

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We're Clever Down Here In Australia

Preamble

This weeks Rhymers Club theme is moving.  Here is my contribution.  Pic shows current work in progress on Great Australian Chairlift Project

Down here in Australia we're clever

We've thought of a good way to beat

A problem which gets most people fuming

The unavoidable peak traffic heat

It's simple when you go think ab...

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When Convention Takes a Hike

I sense your hesitation

I hear your silent frown

Immune I am to most of this

Feet firmly on the ground

You asked was I a writer?

What did I write about?

Rhyme, but good, I did reply

That's been my writing route

'Route' to 'route' (Americanised)

A language twist I like

Creative rhyme it will come out

When convention tak...

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Why Do I Write Poetry?

Why do I write poetry?

I question this myself

Why go to all the trouble when

It brings no dollar wealth?

Financial gain is something which

Might sometimes come – or not

You do it for yourself my friend

Something you've forgot

Don Matthews October 2018

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Wake Up Brian, It's 7am

I post a poem quite regularly

In fact near one a day

I find it helps me pass the time

Pass the time away

But WOL'ers, when I post it

It turns up on the screen

Alarm-clocks Brian “Wake up” it says

There's things that I want seen

Despite him getting old, worn-out

He jumps at chance to show

He can't let us Down Unders

Taking f...

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A Human Crisis

5,000 people have arrived

In Tijuana wanting to cross

But you know what the President is saying?

What he's saying as USA boss?

He's lambasted this caravan of migrants

And said it was criminal infused

Insinuated (without any proof)

They're disguised terrorists designed to confuse

Tijuana is providing them toilets

Showers and shampoo and so...

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Richard Head for President

Preamble

Rowan Atkinson in  'Not the Nine O'Clock News 1980' (picture 1980)

Richard's asking for your help

To vote him in today

To be the next Grand President

Of the USA

He's sure he could do better

Than the current one

At least Richard can twitter right

He knows how to spell dun

Richard knows what he's about

His pl...

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12.01 All Done, All Said

Preamble

This weeks Rhymer's Club theme is 'first'.  Here is my contribution inspired by my intrepid fellow rhymer.

Brian's first to post on Sat

Poor wifeys left in bed

At 12.01am on dot

(I gotta go, 'nuf said)

I could be done for something though

Accusing Brian leave wifey

While he sits up till Big Ben strikes

I could get in big str...

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