Rhymer to Rhymer

Rhymer to rhymer

Metronome beating

Doing what it should

Rhyming a greeting

Rhymer to rhymer

I like playing round

With all the rhyming

Meters I've found

Rhymer to rhymer

Pull words from your sack

Metronome use them

To reach me, rhyme back

Rhymer to rhymer

Make yourself known

Beat with me using

Your metronome

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FUNBUS Trip to Alliteration Contest

Don M vs Brian M

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Alliteration and Edgar Alan Poe

Alliteration's the repeat of one consonant

To liven, add lift to a line

Like the three 'l's' I have used (see above this)

I alliterate time after time

Alan Poe used this technique in 'The Raven'

While 'nodded, nearly, nappi...

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FUN BUS HQ to WOL HQ

Re Fake News

Preamble

Press FUN BUS tag for all FUN BUS activities

This poem was ready for press

Before Graham's poem was sighted

We're pleased with his change of direction

Which before was a little bit blighted

We detect a great softening at WOL

Headquarters, for Don and our BUS

They whipped 'round for a new set of tyres

Said t...

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Let Him Rid Your Bumps....ribbit

I've gotta little message

I'd like you all to see

To get you out of doldrums

To help you happy be

I'm feelin' kinda miserable

I think it's 'down in dumps'

I don't like being like this

It's causing me some bumps

My gramma's not impeccable

But how important's that?

All I wanna do is

Get back my happy hat

Hell...

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Let Him Rid Your Bumps....ribbit

I've gotta little message

I'd like you all to see

To get you out of doldrums

To help you happy be

I'm feelin' kinda miserable

I think it's 'down in dumps'

I don't like being like this

It's causing me some bumps

My gramma's not impeccable

But how important's that?

All I wanna do is

Get back my happy hat

Hell...

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FUN BUS Trip to Don's Little Toe

Preamble

Search FUN BUS tag for all FUN BUS activities

Welcome everyone aboard

On our first FUN trip

We're gonna put the pedal down

Don'll let 'er rip

We 'specially welcome Graham

He couldn't wait to come

Tina had to calm him down

At first he was quite dumb

He thought the BUS had three wheels

(ribbit...silly boy)

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FUN BUS HQ to WOL HQ

Preamble

Refer: Graham Sherwood's Three Wheels on His Wagon

Refer: FUN BUS tag for previous FUN BUS activities

Graham it's good I've got
My spies out round the site
Looking for the doubters
(Plenty seen in sight)

Now what's this three wheel wagon
You seem to talk about?
Our FUN BUS has got four wheels
Three wheels ? No way! we shout

Call Centre T...

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Struggling For a Title

I am a well-trained poet

Flown in from the south

Despite exuding culture

I gotta watch my mouth

They taught me in my training

To first write down my verse

And then extract a title

Not do it in reverse

So I will do some writing

Clever. witty verse

Look at what I've written

Then title (not reverse)

Being a well-trained...

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When a Barb Becomes an Insult to Intelligence

Preamble

I have based this on journal article in the paper. I can't claim credit for her choice of words. Only for putting it into verse.

An insult delivered perfectly is so glorious

Puncturing pomposity and skewering idiocy

It should have a laser-like ability

To highlight and contrast stupidity

When billionaire Musk...

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I'm Watching My Mind Ride a See-Saw

I've got this Spike Milligan mind

You're beginning to see on your screen

A split second journey 10,000 miles

Extracted from where it has been

From source here, I see it on see-saw

It's Serious in charge, on the ground

While Comic's sky-high on the see-saw

But it's I who holds keys to this round

You mean don we can't play...

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DON'T FRET, YOU CAN STILL CATCH UP.  DETAILS IN MY PROFILE BANK 'WOL's Bright 'n' Breezy Fun Bus Launch'

Did you miss our FUN BUS launch

This last July twenty one?

I'm sorry it was Saturday

Plenty else needing to be done

All who rolled up had great times

Graham, Anya, Brian and Tina

Jon and Jane (and don of course)

Tina even brought Gina

Tyson was exhauste...

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WOL's Bright 'n' Breezy Fun Bus Launch

Our don doesn't like all the doom, gloom and hate floating around lately. He thinks it's unhealthy. He's gone and built a Fun Bus to make us all happy again. It might not get out the shed but at least he's trying. One thing you have to remember about our don is he's prone to flights of fancy. Some flights reach to the stars while others plunge to the...

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If You Wanna Make a Friend

If you wanna make a friend

You gotta make an effort

You can't just sit around all day

Say bugger and 'aw f----- it

You gotta be proactive

Be first cab off the rank

You can't sit on your backside to

Increase you're friendship bank

Don Matthews July 2018

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Vandalism with Vegemite

Preamble

Based on a true event here

While you up there all eat your Marmite

Our Vegemite we also eat too

We have it on toast for our brekky

Which no doubt you Marmite yours too

We had a strange one here today

This bloke he thought that he would paint

A Vegemite graffiti on a train station

Allowed of which you know you 'aint

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We Have a Brain in our Bum

Preamble

Reported in our paper

Scientists have recently discovered

A second brain resides in our bum

Published in Journal Neurosci

This brain in our bum makes it hum

The colon contains many neurons

Millions of hard-working nerves

Firing in synchronous behaviour

Pushing contents down colon's curve

Why do they call it a secon...

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Thankyou Alan Poe

I want to go try 'lliteration

Like Edgar Alan Poe

And as I'm just a learning poet

They said go have a go

Gosh! Think I've 'ready had success

Got up, geared up and go'ed

My first attempt at 'lliteration!

Thankyou Alan Poe

Don Matthews June 2018

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I'm No William Shakespeare

Preamble

When the self-drive car was first tested here, the freeway was blocked off. All big-wigs, premier, present. The car went and knocked over a blow-up kangaroo placed on the road.

I can write Comic

And Tragedy

I'm no William Shakespeare

I'm just poet me

When England loses

A game of footy

This is my verse

To great Tragedy

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Hey, What?

Brian's Gone Looking For Gina

Hey...

What?...

He's gone AWOL...

What? Who has?....

The one with the scary face...

Brian??...

Yep...Ticked off again...

Where's he gone this time?...

My source tells me some far flung isle...

Whatever for?...

Seems he's gone looking for Gina (source again)...

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Unleash Your Mind

A poem evolving

From out my mind

Astonishes me

With what it can find

Undo it's leash

Let it run free

Watch it come back

With new imagery

Emily Dickinson

Mind in free reign

Images brought back

Hard to explain

Don't keep your mind

Leashed, let it free

For it to bring back

New poetry

Don Matthews June 2018

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Build and Destroy

Preamble

Our car industry closed down so we're on the lookout for new industries. Hence my rhymic observations.

We have a great new industry

Building submarines

To sail submerged beneath the waves

All long and sleek and mean

We now have got a new one going

Submarine destroyers

Which sail above the ocean waves

We're waiting for some buy...

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Trumps Planned Visit to UK

Trump the leader of the States

Will soon visit UK

But people there don't want him

They say don't come, stay 'way

They say this is because of what

He's done, and wants to do

They don't impress him as a leader

And neither do I too

His planned trip to the Palace

Is gone, quite dead and buried

Instead, he'll tea, and visit Quee...

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The Lions Den (dark, but true)

Preamble

This was reported in our local paper

What I'm about to say

Is a lesson to observe

That crime it never ever pays

You get what you deserve

Poachers they broke into

An African game reserve

To kill a herd of rhinos

Their greed for them to serve

A pride of lions saw them

And paid them for their crime

They...

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There's Too Much Gloom, Depression

Written on Our Site

Now listen up my WOL poets

Got something I want to say

There's too much gloom, depression here

I've come to bright our way

My grammar's a bit iffy

Expletives? One or two

My spelling's unscientific

I'm upside-down as you

Just 'cause you can write

To any sorta tune

Is no excuse for filling

O...

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Frances Can You Hear Us?

Preamble

Sorry Frances, this is the best matchless sock pic I could find

Frances can you hear us?

Calling from your drawer

Alone and sad and saggy

We are your mateless four

Somewhere in your busy life

You've lost our other half

No longer can we sing and dance

No longer can we laugh

We know a dating service

Idea is fairly g...

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Shit. Excuse Expletive

Shit. Excuse expletive

Standing in the shower

Verse from heaven falls down

Gem. A little flower

Shit. Excuse expletive

Rubbing bod with soap

Hanging on to flower

Tied it with a rope

Shit. Excuse expletive

Hopping out the shower

Hanging on so preciously

To my little flower

Shit. Excuse expletive

Towelling outer/unn...

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Gosh Gee

Please excuse my strangeness

And those who say gosh, gee

I'm trying to make new stuff

Create things differently

My grammar's often questionable

My spelling's all askew

But that's the way I like it

I'm different. And it's new

The Educates they tell me

Why use you not our Grammar?

I Googled it , and found it not

A newish sort of hammer ??

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I'm Sorry. This Fucking Mess is Upsetting Me

The poem that I've written here

Expresses how I feel

Though unexpected from my norm

They're things I won't conceal

You encourage me to speak my mind

OK ,yes, then I will

There are some certain things on here

Of which I've had my fill

Gutter language I rarely use

It's only when I'm angry

Which is how I feel...

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Where Are All the Froggies?

Where are all the froggies

Hopping round the site?

Smiling at our faces

Making us feel bright

To me there's too much seriousness

Circulating round

Making me feel dullish

A dullish shade of brown

Now look at happy froggie

All bright and shiny green

Just looking at him sitting

Gives me a happy lean

Take Brian, my ...

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Hey What? Bugga

Hey...

What?...

I'm about to prose...

Shock horror...what's happened?...

I've been nabbed...

You've lost me...

Brian's on hols...thought the mouse could play while the cat's away...

Turns out he's got this fancy phone. The bugga whacked his scary face on my latest post....

Shit...

He ended up thanking m...

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