Mess

My poetry at times it does

Get me in such a mess

The grammar's bad the spelling wrong

A mess I must address

But this is not the mess I mean

This hits me from the rear

My verse it gains a sudden soul

And in my eye, a tear

It seems that I can have two messes

One in poetic script

The other on a deeper plane

Emotions getting ripped

Don Ma...

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Drunk Fairy Grounded

Preamble

Taken from a newspaper report

This chap he took a Ryanair

Flight to Krakow, Poland

There would've been no problem

'Xcept he's on a roll, and...

Fired up on the good stuff

Fired up rather well

He caused disturbance and surprise

When dressed as Tinkerbell

The police arrived to escort

Green-dress-and-fairy...

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FUNBUS Trip to BBC Archives : Pete and Dud

Hello people welcome to

Your Bright 'n' Breezy FUNBUS

We're off to see what Bee Bee

Archives have for us

Please let me introduce myself

Your driver for today

My name is Don, you know me

Your trip is free, no pay

“Welcome to the Bee Bee folks”

We archive good and mud

Your driver has requested

We dig up Pet...

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Bipolar Mania : An Example Of

Preamble

Bipolar disorder is an imbalance of chemicals in the brain. Born with it, no cure. Medications help to balance. Bipolars cycle between mania and depression.

Treatment involves a period in hospital and testing of a suitable drug regime.

Fortunately I don't suffer from depression. I need to medicate for mania to keep the fine balance ...

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Watcha Cooking Up Don?

Preamble

I have been asked to write a Saturday poem on cooking.  Here is my contribution.

Watcha cooking up Don?

This Saturday, for fun

This week's theme is cooking

Swiss Missy's gone, she's done

Watcha cooking up Don?

This Saturday for us?

You've 'ready done a miracle

Creating WOL's FUN BUS

We know you had some help

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Just Kill Me

Preamble

In 2002 Scott Dozier murdered drug dealer Jeremiah Miller He is on death row at Nevada Ely State Prison. Legal battles are occurring because the drug company does not want it's drug used for possible botched executions.

I murdered Jeremiah Miller

In the year twenty thousand and two

I'm on death row and you've postponed it twice

Whate...

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A good stand-up comic creates

Tension then relieves it in one

Challenging racism and ignorance

And stereotypes, while on the run

What do you call an Aboriginal woman flying a plane?

A pilot

Tension created.  Tension relieved.

Don Matthews  August 2018

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Balance

He looked into the inside

Into his own mind, that is

He found a strange arrangement

A neural mixed-up lattice

He saw two children playing

Playing in his mind

Serious and Comic

That's all that he could find

The children that were playing

(The ones that he had found)

Were silent to all others

Silent, with no sound

But he could see th...

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Princess Puss Goes to Yodel School

Princess is our latest joy

To join FUN BUS HQ

She's cuddly but bit feisty

(But that's 'tween me and you)

As it was WORLD YODEL DAY

She thought it would be cool

To fine-tune up her yodel skills

And go to yodeling school

We were allowed to film inside

For you to look, embrace

And see what does go on within

This pre...

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Bedazzle

Our vocab is quickly diminishing

We don’t even need words to talk

Just text CUL8er on Iphone

And do it head-down as you walk

Shakespeare’s vocab was in thousands

Sixty-thousand, five-hundred and thirty-four

Today we only have ten to twenty thousand

So forty thousand have gone out the door

But all is not lost with our vocab

The Bard handed on ma...

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House, I Hear You Calling

House, I hear you calling

Come rid me of my dust

Gosh, you are persistent

If I really must

Trouble is I'm 'dicted

To my computer screen

Watching all these UK

Minds (themselves unseen)

How then would you feel like

Dust-covered just like me

Would you still be able

To see your poetry?

I hear what you are saying

I ...

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Swissy Miss

I'm struggling with this poem team

About my Swissy Miss

Can I get there, nail it?

Or will I fly past, miss ?

Now this is rather interesting

The second, fourth lines end

With rhyming words identical

But different meanings send

Poetic license I do like

Allows me scope to break

Rules the Rhyming Board lay down

Rules the Board do make

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The Festival of Britain 1951.

For Those Who Can Remember

The Festival of Britain

1951

A hundred years on

From 1851

I was just a boy

Only 5 years old

Awed and open-eyed

In excitement's hold

Skylon standing tall

Pencilling the skies

Balancing precariously

On steel suspending guys

Dome Discovery

Had flown in from space

Like an alien...

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Oh Little Ant

Preamble

MC and Brian are to blame for this invasion of ants on the site.    Refer M.C,s 'Insecticide' Wed 15 Aug

Oh no you can’t you little ant

Climb up my little toe

Yes you can rant for all you want

But up my toe you can’t-go

No you can’t you little ant

Climb up my little toe

To find a path up to my pant

No up my toe you can’t-go

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Spike and I and the Factory of Human Daleks

Spike and I were born in

A factory of human Daleks

With powers of creating great mayhem

Together with cries “what the heck”

Now Milligan and I we are often

On a roll, out of control

His uncontrolled roll made him famous

So will I become famous, now in WOL?

We both share a born-with condition

They call it mixed...

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My Premature Saturday Shorts Poem

I'm standing at the table

This thing comes hurtling at me

Is it long or is it short?

Wherever can the cat be?

Oops, I'm getting mixed up

Last line of previous verse

Belongs in my next poem

Bother, damn, shit, curse

So there I am a'standing

Wondering, short or long?

Should I back or forward?

Which is right, which w...

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My neurons are going away

My neurons are 'way for a couple of days

They're needing some rest and recup

They're complaining they're mixed up and swirling around

A bit like mixed vegies in soup

I've been pushing them creating my poems each day

And they've just had enough, gone on strike

So I'd better start listening and treating them nice

Cos I want them come back a...

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Spelling Errors

Spelling errors appearing

Appearing on the site

I don't like sitting back

Make out they're not in sight

Your errors give impressions

I dearly want to say

Don't want to see your readers

Just think you're lazy, hey?

So do I come out saying

Don't think this spelling's right?

Or do I leave you with your errors

Say they're out my sight?

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Spike, and I, and the School of Silliness

(youtube clip of Spike in training at School at end of poem)

Are you aware that I went to

The same School of Silliness as Spike?

Well neither did I till I found out

The School had closed down (gone on strike)

The janitor was sorting through records

When low and behold he did find

That Spike was a graduate of said School

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Brian, You Get Mind Muck-Ups ?

The picture on your screen

Is best that I could get

Of Brian (it's his brother)

Don't think he's met him yet

My mind it is so full up

It needs to empty quick

And make a bit of space for

New ones to fill it

Hello? My mind is calling out

I've gotta bit of room

But please don't go and fill it

With all that doom and gloo...

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My Verse is Quite Frustrated

They're getting quite frustrated

My verse, they want to share

And not stay on my hard-drive

With no people-wear

OK, I let it spill out

From my active mind

On to my active keyboard

Complete, and also signed

But what's the use them staying

On my computer drive

They want dissemination

An audience to arrive

At last...

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FUN BUS Celebrates National Hottie Day

Press FUN BUS tag for previous activities

Bloody hell I don't believe

I built a BUS mistake

Forgot the jolly thermostat

The BUS? It nearly bake

We're on this trip to London Town

The BUS was packed with WOL'ers

When driver Don let out a shriek

There's steam ahead he hollers

The WOL'ers logically did think

St...

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WOL's New Rhymers Club

Preamble

My mind has two parts – Serious and Comic. They play around at times and need watching to see they don't get up to mischief. I personify them in my poetry

Before I do begin

I must apologise

My poem seemed to go right on

And on before my eyes

Let me introduce

A new group on the site

A rag-tag group of rhymers

Establis...

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FUN BUS: Don Patents our Bus

Press FUN BUS tag to view previous FUN BUS events

I had this bright idea

Of patenting the FUN BUS

But thought it needed hyping

To something like FUNBUS

So drove the bus to Patent Office

Took Gina, empty desk

So Gina stamped our form

Which I thought quite a risk

Sure enough, Director comes

Hello? What's happening here?

...

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A Family That Kills Together

In my hometown for near ten years

A team of father and son

Flew under the radar while committing

Drug trafficking, thieving, so on

It's now come to light they've been hiding

A more sinister secret than this

They're suspected of doing away with

Five men, giving each a death kiss

Why do I now write about dark?

When I've striv...

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