Thankyou Sire

This poem will self-destruct at midnight.

Do you wish to take up the challenge and write another?

I do

Go forth and multiply my poet

Thankyou sire

Don Matthews Last day in March 2020

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Gun Stores Closed. NRA to Sue

Californian gun shops have been shut down

A 'non-essential' service are you

To which the NRA has responded

OK state of California we'll sue

Unlawful government infringement of freedom.....

Don Matthews March 2020

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It Jolly is Frustrating

I have a little problem

Can't seem to overcome

I jump into the next poem

Before the last one's done

It jolly is frustrating

I blame my active mind

It's like a spinning clothes-dryer

Working overtime

Some poems spin out easy

While others try and flout

All my hard-spent effort

Trying to bring them out

Creating things ...

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UK Corona Can't Come Down

UK corona can't come down

Down the wire to me

Because it did not go to

The School of Circuitry

Had it learnt about electrons

And piggybacking rides

It could have hacked the Internet

And spread itself worldwide

But then, you did go piggyback

From China where you came

You hopped on board us carriers

To spread your deadly ga...

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Have a Nice Day

I had lots of leisure activities

They've all now been taken away

I feel like a damn caged up tiger

While checkout girls say “Have a nice day”

Don't they understand things have changed now?

That 'have a nice day' just won't work?

Or maybe it's me with the problem

I can't see no light from the murk?

Don Matthews March 2020

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Stockpiling

While many are stockpiling groceries

In freezers, fridge, cupboards, to keep

Their energies would be much better spent on

Stockpiling themselves up on sleep

(Sleep plays a vital role in

building up the body's immune system)

Don Matthews March 2020

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The Adventures of Mary

Humour in hard times is important

Without it we'd all go to pot

So I will try best what I do best

And see what rhyme humour I've got

THE ADVENTURES OF MARY

At the seaside

Mary wore her negligee

Wore it to the beach

Put a razor fence around her

So no-one could reach

On returning home

He said please M...

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I'm feeling rather grumpy

(My cat is grumpy too)

They've taken everything I like

And it's just day 2

They've taken 'way my table tennis

Cafes also too

I've got no friends to mingle with

Don't know just what to do

The cinemas have all closed down

Can't watch no wide-screen flick

Can't munch and scatter popcorn round

Was grumpy, now feel sick

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Why Cannot It Be Two-Way ?

Why should I make an effort?

Why should I give my time?

To comment on your poems when

You never do on mine?

It seems a bit one-sided

It's not how it should be

Why cannot it be two-way

With both our poetry?

Don Matthews April 2019

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Interesting

A virus, the most primitive of lifeforms

Controls us, how interesting to me

When man is considered the top of

The top of the evolutionary tree

Don Matthews March 2020

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My 'Light-Bulb' Ideas on Coronavirus

I have some ideas 'bout this virus

Where it developed, what for

One as a bioweapon developed in China

Or US to name two of four

It could be a big secret weapon

To bring down America's Donald Trump

Or a plot to cull out all the elderly

And trim age-care budget's big lump

There's one that scores 10 out of 10 though

Cre...

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Flutter Flutter

I am a social butterfly

Floating round the clubs

Being seen by this and that

In my favourite pubs

However can I do this?

Go floating, hugging friends

When I am told a virus

Is lurking round the bend?

You'll have to flutter flutter

In distance for a while

Meter half is recommended

Hey? will cramp my style....

Sorry 'bout tha...

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Urge

Was out in bush the other day

Driving with me mate

When great big urge came over him

Which just would not abate

He took off into sand dunes

To dig himself a hole

We had no toilet paper

(Forgot to bring a roll)

I said whatever did you use

To clean yourself with mate?

Sand, he said. How did it work?

Grate, grate, grate

Don Matthews Marc...

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Also Spake Samuel

( Samuel the Elder is the great great grandson of Samuel the Ancient. Teachings from his great grandfather were handed down to Samuel to share with our generation. He has asked me to share these with you today)

Samuel's message to us begins here

Read and be blessed

Can you hear it? Have you found your story​

We exist as vibrations. Con...

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We're Animal Lovers Through and Through

How nice to see the farmer

Hand-feed his farm-grown cow

We get a nice warm feeling inside

Everything's fine right now

Where the farm-grown cow goes next

We blot out from our mind

It's headed to the abattoir

How very, very kind

Into the supermarket we do go

Along the red-meat aisle

See all the packaged body part...

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Do I? Or Do I Not?

Do I?

Or do I not?

Make my lines

Autobiographical?

Do I bare my inner soul?

What will you think?

What will you comment?

Don Matthews March 2020

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Lockdown

Italy is in complete lockdown

This could mean an indefinite delivery

of my new Lamborghini

Woe is me

Don Matthews March 2020

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Latro Spider Robot

Latro is a spider bot

Hydraulic legs times six

Designed to enter nuclear sites

And clear those in a fix

In Sellafield UK it started

Cleaned up its nuclear mess

Expected now to decommission

Other sites, address

Latro enters danger zones

Where humans will not go

Where would we be without these bots?

Without them? I don't know?

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Billy's Problem

(Originally seen in the Like-Minders Theme Park 'Propper Spelling School')

Billy's with us here today

Troubled with a plight

He doesn't quite know what to say

Does he bite or byte ?

When his tongue and teeth connect

(Cos teeth not lined up right)

Does he say “shit!, ouch, I bite”

Or “shit! and ouch, I byte ?”

It doesn't matter Billy...

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Intensify Your Efforts Governments

Our weather of late's been extreme

Storms in the north, fires down south

Governments say they'll tackle these problems

We'll tackle these problems they mouth

Summits lip-service these problems

Efforts just aren't good enough

Transformational changes are needed

Changes (not easy) but tough

Protests all over are happening

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Bonkering Around on the WOL Site 

I do like to be bit abnormal

And not be like all of the rest

Being like rest is so boring

Abnormal provides citrusy zest

Some people say Don you're quite bonkers

Reply I, so what? I do say

Bonkering around on the WOL site

Helps pass my quite abnormal day

Don Matthews March 2020

Me mate Don might be bonkers.

But ...

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Coronavirus and the LMS Theme Park

(Please contact me to join LMS or if you have any questions)

LMS is virus

Proofing it's Theme Park

So all of those who enter

Can miss corona's mark

They're proofing all the boundaries

Attempting also roof

Don't let yourself be fooled in thinking

This is just a spoof

If 'rona comes and visits WOL

And you're not ...

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Bookmark Page 64

(True story.  I am now on my next novel.  Can't seem to get past p10 though)

I have a library book I do

Borrowed for to read

It does look rather interesting

An interest I do need

To take me 'way from poetry

And give my mind a rest

This book I think will do the trick

A nice and welcome guest

I've just got to page 64

Plot and peop...

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Unmasked...At Last

Our paper has been running a campaign

A campaign called 'Your Right To Know'

Laws which so long sought to hide things

Laws which don't change, but must go

Sex predators to date, laws did hide them

Anonymity they were guaranteed

At last, names are out, no more hiding

Hiding from evil sex deeds

Bernard Finnigan

Politician

Child p...

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White Blank

It stares out from the screen at me

I stare right back at it

Yes, it says, I am quite blank

And, yes, I feel a git.

I've got no spelling errors

Syntax perfect, yes

I'm just a piece of white blank verse

Examine me, address!

But I've got better things to do

Than look at verse blank white

Despite your perfect spelling and

Your syntax bein...

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It's the Australian Way

Our country was built on a history

Of having a laugh

No matter what life throws at you

Things have been bit tough today

My mania ran away

Forgot to pop my purple pills

Let's have a beer hey hey

That's the Australian way of life

Laugh no matter what

It could be the end of the world

And our attit...

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The Enigmatic Poet

The poet writing this is an enigma

He can't work out what makes him tick

His neurons they do not know either

None know when he's taking the mick

To take what he's screening correctly

You need to know what makes him tick

To not take offence, misunderstand him

To know when he's taking the mick

He was born with a condition which makes him

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Concrete

(Source: The Guardian)

Our blue and green world's turning greyer

Every second we lay concrete down

After water, this concrete we're laying

Is the most widely used substance around

PostScript

Concrete is the most destructive material on Earth.

While concrete is how we try to tame nature,

it also entombs vast tracts of fertile soil.

Des...

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