Mind Cultivation

Cultivating your mind

is like developing a city

with neighbourhoods.

Then linking the infrastructure

so the whole organism

can flourish

Don Matthews

Aug 2017

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I Write a Lot About Myself

I write a lot about myself

You maybe wonder why

I want to find out what I'm like

At least I'd like to try

I dig into the deep of me

To see what will come out

Will I laugh or will I cry

What am I all about?

You need to get to know me

To understand my ways

They can at times be strangeful

Depending on the days

On so...

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Poet and the Psychologist

In my real life I gravitate to women

Why this is so, I don't know

But the person I converse in my head with

Is a male, why is that? I don't know

There seems to be some psychological reason

Underpinning this action of mine

Why is this voice in my head

Not a female, but male every time?

I know that I'm not a psychologist

My male ...

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What the Heck

I say what I want

(Within bounds of course)

Don't wanna upset

Things, make it worse

I like Monty Python

Spike Milligan flecked

I throw up my rhymes

Sit back, what the heck

Don Matthews February 2019

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Pregnancy Pill Ear-rings

Chemists are quite clever

They've invented new ear-rings

That substitute for pregger pills

Ring-a-ding-a-ding

My poem might sound flippant

But they come infused

With synthetic hormones

Which are then so used...

To pass through lobe into the blood

To act the same as pill

You have to wear the clip-on sort

Pierced-ear ones do...

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Senryus to Celebrate the Resurgence of the Ancient Art of Haiku on WOL

Haikus take much skill

Many years of hard labour

This one took me hours

And effort. Yes, hours.

To achieve my skill level

Years of hard yakka

College of Haiku

Gave many years of practice

Passed. Bottom of class

Don Matthews April 2019

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Senryu Reverse

Opposite to you

I stand. But in reverse. I'm

unconventional

                                     Don Matthews July 2017

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Leader Required for Mass Movement Pack

Poets are just voices

In the wilderness

We'd like to make a difference

Make all this greed be less

But greed it seems is inborn

We've strayed way off the track

Society needs to turn around

And on it's track get back

But me poeticising

Will never change this track

It needs someone who can lead

A strong mass mo...

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Stroke-Torn Woman

I met a stroke-torn woman

Her old life left behind

Left lying on the floor too long

With consequence unkind

One leg weak with muscle loss

Speech affected too

Determined to fight back again

Would we?, would I?, would you?

She studied, passed her theory

License, for to drive

Then waited for her car

Adjusted, to arrive

As us...

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Yep

I write a poem on WOL

A poem near every day

And send it up the wire from

10,000 miles away

Where kangaroos are hopping

Up and down my street

By now you should just know me

My humour is offbeat

I try for blogside top spot

Sitting all in view

Waiting logins, look-sees

Logins, waiting you

My topics they can vary

From sad to happy, gay

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Chainsaw Robber

A man has been nabbed stealing chainsaws

By shoving the blade down his pant

It's in the USA California

So I can rhyme my last line, steal you can't

Imagine the shock that his pecker

Would get if it had electric start

And the on/off switch suddenly got switched on

Gosh! his pecker and body would part

The CCTV here shows the robbery

The bl...

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Preamble

Eva Cassidy had a malignant melanoma mole on her back removed in the 1980's. It reappeared in 1996. The swiftness with which it does it's deadly work is unreal. It's a very fast-growing cancer – ignore it at your peril

eva

unprepared

you and me

too soon

you flew away

but you left memories

they'll never fly away

never

they pu...

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No Brexit Here. We Got No Problems

You may think my rhymes silly

And that you've had enough

But we don't have no Brexit

And all that silly stuff

We can only come up

With leaders in, then out

No-one holds their seat for long

On leader's roundabout

But hey? we voted in these bods

Be rational, be wise

But all they ever think about

Is telling fibs and...

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I Thought I'd Go Put

I thought I'd go put pen to paper

Fingers to keyboard actually

And try a little free-verse musing

Something that's new to me

I'm told it has no rhyme nor meter

It could end up a mess

And leave my little venture

In permanent recess

Bother!

Why have I gone now put

Rhyme into this ditty

Seems I haven't learnt a jolly thing

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Festung America ?

During the Nazi reign in Europe

Hitler planned building a wall

He called it 'Festung Europa'

But in '45 his plan it did fall

Now we have President Trump

Planning a similar type wall

Maybe 'Festung America' perhaps?

Maybe this plan to it will fail?

Don Matthews January 2019

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Government 'Opposition' Should be Called the 'Alternative' Party

The Government it forms one side of Parliament

While the Opposition it forms the other party

They both get together, cross the floor

Shouting loud and shouting hearty

The dictionary defines 'Opposition' as

Taking 'complete and contrary view of all things'

Yet how can that be when they both

Promise us...

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Virgin Australia Installs Onboard Gyms on all Flights

Virgin Air have taken

Off with flying lead

Installed their planes with onboard gyms

To go where're they lead

You might think this surprising

An Aussie having fun

We're honest, true and trusting

When all is said and done

To show you I'm not joking

View this youtube clip

We're honest, true and trust...

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