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She lived in a slum

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Cintia_e_Roberta_01.jpg: 5x Favela, Agora Por Nós Mesmosderivative work: Minerva97, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by...

I saw a ballerina

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Anna Pavlova I saw a ballerina A ballerina gold She was dancing on a building One of fifteen I could see I wondered what she thought Then fi...
20251002

Sibylisation or syllables on Sibyl on her birthday

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Adorable, unsinkable, she's massively capable. Endorsable, unanalyseable, commonsensible, She's Sibyl Enviable, reas'nable, incr...
20230403

Alffi

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I've never written an eclogue But if I did, I know, I would write it about our dog - In Autumn fog, in snow, In Summer sun or Spring tim...
20221017

Limericks

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There was a young man from Cwmbran Who said 'Listen, friends, I've a plan - I really can't stay, I 'm going away. I'll m...
20220818

Song of Songs 2:3-6

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An apple tree among the trees, So my loved one, I see. In his shade I'm fully at ease, His fruit tastes good to me. Bring me to your ban...
20220729

Wet hands

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Catt Liu maundytime, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons When I was a child, My mother's hands were always wet - a thing I didn't get. But no...
20211227

Sad Haiku

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Damian B Oh, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons As I passed the house, The undertake...
20211224

Wintry Haiku

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Michal Klajban, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The snow descending, I feel warm ...
20211127

Davy Jones had too many bones

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Davy Jones had too many bones So this is what he did - He cut off his hair, For he didn't care. He cut off his hair, And left his head b...
20210817

Prunestones

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I loved a soldier. I said, make me your bride. But he went to war, and oh how I cried. He left me alone, no man by my side. I loved a sailor...
20210701

Butterflies

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Last night I dreamt of it again - My brother he was five And I was coming up to seven, So glad to be alive. We all into the garden went, The...
20210409

Humility

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Watch a seagull fly, Eye must not cry. Feet webbed to the earth, I sometimes overestimate my worth -  Remember good works on three fingers, ...

On the dangers of dancing

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Dance! Dance! Dance! Like a tiger on the loose Dance! Dance! Dance! Like a gawky gliding goose Dance! Dance! Dance! Like a body on a noose.
20210407

Psychology

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Sigmund Freud Would get annoyed If your feet were on the couch - He was always such a grouch! Carl G Jung Once took a bung They gave him lot...