Naughtiness Unnoticed

Preamble

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

How can I write a poem

About a naughty boy ?

When I was good, so helpful

My mother's pride and joy

It seems I have inherited

My mother's be-nice genes

Transferred them to my daughters

No naughtiness have I seen
 

I coasted along quite nonchalantly

N...

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Birdsofafeather : Aussie Poet (in ascendance) to UK Poet (stage of ascendance unknown)

Preamble

I could not get a pic of Brian so had to use one of his brother

Don here Brian with lotsa rhyme

From the vast rhymic bank in my brain

I can put words together like birdsofafeather

Ya want me to do it again?

(Why not ?)

I've learnt how to sort out you Brits

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You Will Find More In My Profile

I can write tragic

And comedy

I'm no William Shakespeare

I just write for me

I have writ tragic

And comedy

'Imperfect Leaders'

'Giraffe and the Tree'

'Imperfect Leaders'?

'Giraffe and the Tree'?

Go to my profile

And have a look-see

Watch as my poems

Go sliding down

Tragic and comic

Thoughts that I'...

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Golliwogs Off Display

Each year at our Royal Annual Show

The handicrafts section display dolls

And golliwogs have been part of this tradition

So why am I writing about it on WOL?

Some people complained they were racist

So they were promptly removed from display

Resulting in a wide angry reaction

“A nanny state. We've lost our way”

Golly's weren't created t...

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Hang On...I Need the Loo

Preamble

(caff) Hillbillys Cafe rhymes with (laff) American laugh

I'm sitting in Hillbillys

Wondering what to write

Looking for a paper

Not a one in sight

Why do I like my paper?

I'm trying to reverse

An article in prose

To one that rhymes (in verse)

Now this I find more challenging

Than making one from scratch

You...

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Is That The Problem ?

Preamble

I have been asked to write a canine piece.  Here is my contribution

Are you not happy with my dog?

Is that the problem, is it?

I'm happy to lock you in another room

When you come round and visit

Don Matthews September 2018

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West Ham Bubble and Poet Out of His Depth

Today I am a bubble

Flying 'bove the crowd

West Ham United Supporters

Gosh, they are so loud

To me this all so new

Supporting Ham like this

A novel new experience

One I wouldn't miss

Hey! What is going on?

Whatever is the matter?

Someone's thrown a rock at me

I'm now all rain and splatter

I he...

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Regret

Preamble

I have been asked to write a piece relating to soap.  Here is my contribution:

Consider if you will

Times spent in your life

Ones which you regret

Ones which brought you strife

Now consider times

Ones you may yet get

Ones spent blowing bubbles

You never will regret

Don Matthews September 2018

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Spill-Out Blues

I've got the spill-out blues

And don't know what to do's

My head has gone and emptied out

I'm feeling a bit whooze

My poem's completely useless

You know the reason why?

There's nothing in my head left

For me to even try

Don Matthews September 2018

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Where Will You Go?

I like you mind, despite your strange-

ful ways you work sometimes

You puzzle and frustrate me but

You always seem to rhyme

You're smart, clever and subtle

You'd make a perfect match

For any other clever mind

That's hatched from your same batch

My body it gets weary but

You're very, very kind

You try and make an effort

To not le...

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FUN BUS: UK Researchers Explain Mayhem at HQ

Preamble

Pusscat Princess is the latest arrival at FUN BUS HQ . Search FUN BUS tag for previous FUN BUS activities

UK researchers have found out

That dogs chasing moggies up trees

Is a figment of our imagination

It's moggies that chase doggies up trees

They found that our dear little pusscats

Are far bigger bu...

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WOL Colosseum vs WOL Fun Bus

What do you want me to write about folks?

A bit of doom, maybe some gloom?

Include some wrist-slitting and bleed-out in

bath?

Domestic violence?, yep, I could make room

Roll up to the WOL Colosseum

Where fight to the death's on the bill

It's free entry folks, just come lay down your bets

On who will get maimed, who'll get killed

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Frustrations

Inside I have frustrations

Frustrations caged inside

We all know this is dangerous

Frustrations kept in hide

Frustrations damn you get out

Get out on this page

Relieve me from my inner pain

Get out from your cage

Poetry I've created

For your escape – free me

Come out and do the right thing now

Make me frustration-free

Don Matt...

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All Is Vanity

Preamble

I have been asked to write a piece on vanity.  Here is my contribution.

The artist Charles Allan Gilbert

Back in the year 1892

Drew an optical illusion picture

'All is Vanity' and put it on view

'All is Vanity' comes from the Bible

The Book of Ecclesiastes

Referring to the pride of all mankind

And all it's accompanying vanities

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WOL Poet Tops Board of Gushiness Exam

Brian Maryon's topped the Gush Exam

Where commenters try their best

To poem-comment with gushiness

And pass this damn hard test

He did not want to do bare min

Press 'like' and be content

He wanted to go further and

Make a gush comment

It is not very easy to

Satisfy the Board

Of Gushiness to join with those with

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Our Call Centres In Australia are Clever

Call centres Australia are clever

We look after our callers who call

We're leading the world with this technology

Which I will now go reveal to you all

Don Matthews September 2018

https://youtu.be/Wgw-tzbKJ60

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Brian Jets Off To Tomatina

Did you notice that Brian wasn't round much

Last week, this is true, I don't lie

I'll relay you a story and shed light on

Where Brian disappeared to, and just why

Our Brian he has got a secret

A secret he's hesitant to share

What made me discover his secret?

His picture in my paper. He's bare!

Last Wednesday in August he jets off

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Church Law vs Government Law

Preamble

This is based on a letter to the paper. 14 billion Catholics commemorate Thomas More and Cardinal Fisher, executed in 1535 by Henry VIII for refusing to put a new law by English politicians above the law of God

The church is saying priests are bound

To keep confessional-silence

Child abuse they can't report

The confessional ret...

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Three Beat Verse

I really am enjoying

Creating three beat verse

Before I write it down

In head I do rehearse

What shall I write about?

My mind, it I do ask

Give me something worthwile

In which my verse can bask

I'm sitting here a'waiting

On what my mind will bring

What a disappointment

Not brought a jolly thing

Don Matthews August 2018

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The Brain and Bipolar : Raising Awareness, Removing the Stigma

Preamble

I have been asked, along with some others, to write a piece to do with the brain. I have chosen the brain and bipolar disorder as I believe there is an urgent need to raise awareness of this debilitating mental illness which affects 1 in 50 people, of which I am one.

Bipolars past and present appear bet...

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