Tongue-in-Cheeker

I am a tongue-in-cheeker

From down south Aussie way

You need to get to know me or

You could get led astray

I am an avid cheeker

(Or tonguer if you like)

The trouble is I bite them both

(Gives probs at open mic)

If you share my problem

Teeth getting caught in cheek

You'll know the agony, the pain

(Gosh this poem's weak)

I...

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Haiku – Dribble Drabble

Haiku is easy

Just write down dribble drabble

Shows you deep thinker

Don Matthews June 2019

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Addicted. So....

You know I'm addicted to poetry

You know that I strange-grammar too

You yell slow down Don so that we can

Collect our thoughts and follow you

My mind it swirls 24/7

(Not quite, it stops when I'm reclined)

I'm tying myself up in knots here

Don't dreams swirl around in the mind?

Now where was I?......

My mind has a habit of wandering

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Rock and Roll and Mobile Phones

Although I am an oldie

I like to keep me fit

Body muscles, neurons

And all the rest of it

I hear you thinking, gym freak

Needs his body-tweak

He goes to gym at crack of dawn

To weight-lift, girly-seek

(Girls sensible....still in bed)

No it's not from make-out bikes

That I get my tone

It's on the dance floor roc...

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(This is an amphimacer poem.  An amphimacer is a metrical foot of three syllables, the first and third  stressed and the middle unstressed. Each line is an amphimacer.  Poems of this type are not common as poets did not like them.  I however do)

  Broken Woman

Broken Thing

Violence

Beat you down

Also took

Away your crown

Get away

From the storm

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Hitler Phones Talking Cat

Hitler wants to phone a cat

Wants to, needs to, gotta

I think he's got a screw loose

I think he's lost it, shotta

Flippant I can freely be

Cos Hitler doesn't know me

(Unless he's got a spy in WOL)

I'll flippant write for you/me

Meow.....

(Catspeak for 'oh my dog'....)

Don Matthews September 2019

https://you...

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My SEND Problem

There is a problem I have got

I've really got to mend

To check my poem once, twice, thrice

Before I go press SEND

Now why do I this silly thing?

Embarrass myself so

I get excite and must press SEND

To go my poem, go

I know you wait with bated breath

For me to next press SEND

Give me some berth when I excite

(I'm trying hard to men...

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Lonely Typewriter seeks Loving Home

(Inspired by d.knape's 'Forgotten Typewriter' and dedicated to all those lonely typewriters waiting for a loving home)
 

I am a little typewriter
Sitting in the shop
I may look old and type-worn
But still can type full stops ..........
..................................................

My keys are still together
My ribbon is intact
My 'a' through...

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Do You Post Your Child's Photo on Social Media?

Parents who social media their child's photos

Could be infringing their child's human rights

Affecting their safety and ability

For job opportunities being bright

The UN is currently reviewing

It's Convention of Rights of the Child

Where does it lie in the digital age

(Australia's been a signatory for a while)

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Plastic Plastic

Plastic plastic I love you

Drifting near and far

Plastic, plastic I love you

You are my caviar

Plastic, plastic you do look

So pretty floating past

Multicoloured, red, white, blue

Must eat you while you last

Plastic, plastic I feel weak

I feel so weak? But why?

I'm eating food that's passing by

Why aren't I stronger? Why?

P...

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Yes Mr Trump

With Mr Trump dismissing another staffer

there will soon be no-one left to fill the White House

What about me ?

Here is my questionnaire

Can I sit in the background and nod ? YES

Do I have a nice smile (and white teeth) ? YES

Can I make a sandwich ? YES

Do I believe everything Mr Trump says and does ? YES

It appears I'...

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Shit! the Board are after me

The buggars are on my tail, they are

They think my verse is low-gear

It's not nuff arty-farty like

It's not nuff Willy Shakespeare

Art thou listening oh Great Board?

(Yes you up in the sky)

Willy Shakespeare wrote for Globe

That paper's long gone by

You need to make an effort Board

Come off your great high tree

Adju...

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The television ratings were

In trouble, they were falling

The CEO not happy

Said this is so appalling

Investors were not happy

Hip pockets it was mauling

We want our money, do something

We find this quite appalling

The boss approached the back-room boys

Give us ideas he's calling

The boys said no, we can't have this

State of affairs, appalling

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But Am I Crazy ?

I've built this world of fantasy

And placed it in my mind

Filled with all my characters

And others (when I find)

But am I crazy ?

I have nice conversations

(Cups of tea not yet)

I'm 'fraid they're nothing special

Don't mix with no jet set

But am I crazy ?

There's Thalia my Muse of Mirth

Met when the Muses toured

Aroun...

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Winston Where Have They Taken It ?

Winston where have they taken it?

While you were a'sleeping last night

The solid gold one you like sitting on

The one you find comfy, not tight

Being open on view to the tourists

You can only sit when viewing's closed

This must be a pain in the backside

When toot calls, use servants, I 'spose?

Winston it must have been me...

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Muse WOL Bus Tour and Thalia

(thankyou Philipos)

I'm working on our relationship

Thalia and me

You don't know 'bout my Thalia ?

Let me enlighten thee

I first did come across her

On Muse Bus Tour of WOL

Organised by Philipos

A Date Tour really (lol)

It really was a tour

For Muses seeking mates

Hence the title of the tour

Muse Bus Tour for ...

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Banning Plastics

Our state is banning plastics

Straws and knives and forks

Foam cups/containers next in line

We're into banning talks

We led Australia years ago

By banning plastic bags

In supermarkets given out

(A diet for the shags)

We also led the nation

Many years ago

By giving money refunds

On empty bottles, so....

This current push we...

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Where Are You My Publisher?

I'm looking for a publisher

To like and print my verse

To print it for posterity

Before it gets much worse

I'm looking for a publisher

(Who's sillier than me)

To publish my wit/wisdom and

Broadcast 'round world to see

It would be very nice, I feel

To light and let me fire

Excite all silly-lovers 'round

The world 'fore I...

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Our Master is a Slave Driver

I post a poem once a day

That's three six five a year

How do my poor old neurons cope?

They want to talk (lend ear)

Neurons here dear reader

He wonders how we cope

In truth he's just a slave driver

We think he's into dope

Street-side they call it 'Poet's Dream'

A chemical amide

To us it should be 'Poet's Doom'

He wants...

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Joni Mitchell 1969

Joni Mitchell

Happy times

Children dancing

Sixty nine

Joni Mitchell

Woodstock days

Carefree living

Day-to-day

Joni Mitchell

With/among

Crosby, Stills

Nash (noYoung)

Joni Mitchell

Happy times

Back I wish

Were at times

Don Matthews August 2019

https://youtu.be/dHuotOALxN8

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Mugabe's Dead

Mugabe's dead (and gone to hell?)

Everybody's cheering

A hundred thousand kills he made

Nobody then was cheering

A hero of the struggle

To gain in-de-pen-dence

Descended into tyranny

Corruption, incompetence

Homosexuals he persecuted

Politicians that opposed his way

Rigging elections to ensure he

Could still stay in power and hold sw...

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Wanna, Gonna, Sorta, Wot ?

I'm gonna use these words

Cos that's just how I be

I wanna make my own brand

Of different poetry

I might sound rough and ready

Uneducated, raw

But show me where I can't break

Any grammar law

My friend invented 'coupla'

But I can't use this too

Cos that would break her copyright

A not nice thing to do

There is ano...

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If you

cry you're alive

If you don't, you need to

Don Matthews 2017

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Poet in Training 2017

Muck/Duck/Fuck

My head is doing circles

My brain is all amuck

Neurons racing everywhere

Head it tries to duck

My head is still a'circling

My brain won't de-amuck

Neurons? Given up on them

Shrug shoulders, what the fuck

Sit/Fit/Shit

My head it likes to sit

Where it always sits

My neck it likes to feel it too

This p...

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I Just Don't Get It? 1

A new law has just been passed in Texas

Making it easier to have guns in public

Schools, churches, foster homes, and so on

This week 7 people died in a shootout near Odessa

Weeks earlier 22 died in a shootout in Walmart, El Paso

College students are allowed to carry guns in the classroom

I just don't get it?

I Just Don't Get It? 2

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Americans Don't Understand English

Americans are a funny lot

They play around with Queenies

English just to make more sense

Take for instance 'beanies'

For years they have been seen to wear

Beans upon their head
No understand why beans don't work

Now 'wool-cap', 'beanies' dead

I've left it for the video

To show the strangeful way

Americans change the Q...

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WOL's Kiddie Kindergarten (today's lesson the letter J)

WOL's KK is now open for those wishing to compose in peace and quiet without their little ones jumping all over the keyboard. Fees on application.

Tchr.....good morning kiddies

Class:...good morning Miss

Tchr:....today is Johnny's day

           and we are looking at the letter J,

           the...

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Maybe

Maybe this ain't poetry

Maybe myself I kid

Maybe my trochees all mixed up

Maybe I'm on the skids

Maybe my Muse Thalia

Maybe she don't exist

Maybe I'm just kidding me

Maybe she won't be missed

Maybe this ain't poetry

Maybe just sing-song rhyme

Whether poetry or not

I like it. Fills my time

Don Matthews August 2019

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