It's OK to Cry

First half

When I read what I have writ

Emotions sometimes ride

Up from deep within me

But tears I try to hide.

Intermission

“Crying is not a sign of weakness

but a sign of strength to have the

courage to show deep emotion”

Maria O'Hare

Ireland

Second half

So when I read what I have writ

Maria makes me tr...

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Are You Happy With Your Poem?

Are you happy with your poem

Does it reach your mark

Is it up to expectations

Is it too light, dark?

Do you need to sleep on it

Ponder 'bout a line

Do you think it's good enough

Or needing some refine?

A thought then suddenly springs to mind

Will this poem hurt

You didn't mean to write this in

Will readers you desert?

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My Muse and I. She's Not Happy

Source idea:  Philipos 'Those Nine Greek Muses'

Discovered information

Explains why I hi jinx

It seems the Muse attached to me

Has just a touch of minx

The info that I speak of

Was in a WOLer's verse

Describing all the Muses

(Which one seems me to curse)

I read down through his poem

Described each Muse in turn

W...

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Manhole

Berkley in the USA

Gender neutral names

Manhole, firemen, both are banned

They're into banning games

Manslaughter? and manhandle?

Manchester? will they fall?

We know that man in mankind

Does not mean men but all

Words often have two meanings

From context we can tell

Which meaning we are meant to take

Choose right, and all is well

A...

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The XYZ of FF+ and Other Sexual Fripperies

Source idea: John Coopey 'LBGTQIA+'

WOL's Coopey is at it again

Giving us some alphabetic twat

To hide from the public and mystify

Sexual idiosyncrasies we got

(e.g. Figgles and Fannys......)

I'm gonna try demystify

What I can of Coops strange alphabet

Adding some more that I've thought of

Two that haven't...

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Conversations with a Soul

Preamble

For some reason I couldn't get line spacing to follow original
 

Why do I communicate with poetry?
Why not the language of the commoner?
Like hello, how are you today? or
Are you enjoying the weather?

Alphabetical words strung together like washing on a line

Anatomically arranged in correct grammatical order.

No deep thinking

No...

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Shit! How I Hate This Damn Phrase

Profits come first, hang the history

Shit! how I hate this damn phrase

A heritage shed's been demolished

Another part of history gone, razed

To make way for dog-box type living

Ticky-tack homes to be built, to abound

Replaced within 25 years, but

They'll blend with other dumps all around

So another crime here's been commit...

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Boris and Carrier Pigeons

I like my poetry educational

Keeping WOLers on the ball

But looks like I'm a bit behind this time

Cos Boris PM you now know all

Down here I'm just so jolly isolated

With carrier pigeon my only news route

Like now, they've just flown in and told me

That Boris will Brexit you out

One little pigeon, he carried

A strange cryptic no...

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Jesus Wore Thongs in Australia

Source idea:  d.knape 'Flip Flops'

When Jesus visited Australia
He wore what we call thongs
Performed his water/wine bit
To all the gathered throng

The locals they were happy

Cos he'd bought local-made

All rubber with sole ripple

(Good tidings all he bade)

"Flip flops?" he'd think we're bonkers
Who ever told you that?
Some WOL...

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Baffling. And Repulsive

Trump tells four outspoken Democrats

To go back from where they came from

Despite three being born in America

And one as a child refugee had come

But I despair when he's not reprimanded

By Republicans, or when I hear

Americans start chanting “Go send them back home”

In response to Trump's goading, the cur

Don Matthews July 2019

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Terrible, I Like You

Shit I'm feeling terrible

Wallowing in doom

Worse thing is I'm liking it

Shit! here comes the gloom

Don't you dare come near me

Chuckle, go, piss off

Take your cheery elsewhere

I like my gloom's spinoff

Shit! my terrible's taken off

How am I gonna cope?

Doom and gloom have also gone

What's left to hang on? - dope

Don M...

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Don At Work – Please Do Not Disturb

Why do I name myself

In poems that I write?

dk, Devon, Lisa, others

Approve, say it's alright

Why do I name myself

In poems (from my mind)?

It's hard to put a finger on

A reason I can find

(But I'll try....)

Calling myself a 'he' or 'him'

Is impersonal to me

Damn! I won't be a he or him

In my poetry

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WOL's Fun 'n' Frippancy Movement (in support of our brother in Australia)

We are gathered here to support our (mixed up) brother in Australia who believes there is not enough frippancy on the site. (hear! hear.!..boo!..Quiet! I won't have any hecklers interrupting this occasion)

WOLers are invited to submit writings of frippancy according to the Movement's Code of Conduct (COC).

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Confessions of a Diagnosed Manic

Preamble

I have written about my condition before. I write about it for two purposes – cathartic and educational. Mental health issues need to be aired out in the open and not swept under the carpet. We no longer live in the Victorian ages.

A diagnosed manic

Comes out in my write

Mixed up, at times 'crazy'

To those who read, sight

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Clique. Wot?

Preamble

You'll either like it or hate it. That's a clique poet.  Wot?

I post nearly a poem each day

It helps drive my blues far away

I feel like a butterfly fluttering gay

Hey poet? Your lines are clique

Wot?

I like playing round with this 'aye'

It rhymes well with roll in the hay

My sweet love and I we do lie in this hay

You seem ...

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Change the Record Don

I know I do go on and on

And on and on and on

'Bout humour missing from the site

Change the record Don

Hey look? just found another

Heavy metal (fuck)

I bet some WOLers can't believe

Their rotten gloomy luck

I do not mean to disrespect

Those heavy-metal won

To me it bangs out doom and gloom

Change the record Don

OK, d...

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Bulls Into the Sea. Animal Abuse in Spain

Bous a la Mar's on the go again

In Spain, for it's people and bulls

After running the main street of Denia

They jump in the sea, pleasing all

Animal Rights have complained a long time

To ban such bull sports across Spain

Claiming it distresses the animals

Again and again and again

Don Matthews July 2019

htt...

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Cricket World Cup. England vs Australia. Sunday England vs NZ. And the Winner Is........

Preamble

My London office has requested a special report from their foreign correspondent on the current tensions in England.  Please direct any questions or complaints to my office.

Thankyou

This poem that I'm writing

I do not write by choice

A WOLer who's high up the chain

Has ...

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I'm new to haiku

Sun shines brightly on meadow

A load of crap Don

??

Seems have wrong info

Rain pissing down on meadow

Right. Check data first

Don Matthews  July 2019

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The Long and Short of Stacy Does Racy

I like reading poems

But not those that go

On, on forever

And on, so and so

There is one exception

That poem 'bout Stacy

Which one WOLer wrote

Called 'Stacy Does Racy'

It ran like an opera

Soapy, with friends

While Stacy did racy

My eyes glued to end

Now let me get back

To what I will say

Short p...

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Should We Legalise Prostitution?

They're trying to legalise prostitution

Politicians, (as usual), lead the way

Not listening to experience elsewhere

Not wanting to see light of day

You ask, politicians? What's new Don?

I counter, they're top of their game

Educated and all for the people

Looking after us, not out for fame

In New Zealand, the city of Christc...

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Chuckle Therapy

My interest in poetry's

Creating humour, rhyme

If it doesn't chuckle thee

So be it, it does mine

Not all of us like humour

Some like doom and gloom

Living life in shadows

Dark window-less rooms

If some prefer to live like this

It doesn't bother me

Come join me lovers, (chuckle type)

In chuckle therapy

Come therapize yoursel...

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Edging Higher Planes

Preamble

Words sometime need altering/inventing

to fit rhyme. I will do it when I think I can still hold

you with my meaning.

I went to university

Studied all the rules

Of varied combinations

Of ions and molecules

But missed out education

Of things on higher planes

Like understanding Shakespeare

And all there was t...

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Catering for Phone Addicts. Stupid

We've decided to cater for phone addicts

(By trialling new technology)

For those who move zombie-like, strolling

Not a care or a thought 'bout safety

Whenever they come to the traffic lights

We can't expect them to raise eyes

Look up and decide when it's safe to

Cross over, not meet their demise

So we're burying traffic l...

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Shit! WOL's Raining Rhymers

Shit! WOL's raining rhymers

Soaking all our screens

Suddenly from out the sky

Emerged from sight unseen

They're not all comic silly-like

Nor into doom and gloom

They're multiskilled in all genres

For which WOL makes much room

When as newbie rhymer

I first did enter WOL

An old hand welcomed me and said

“We need new blood...

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Mary Had Wristwatch

Mary had a wristwatch
She lost it in the hay
She doesn't know what time it went
Or what time was the lay

This did cause Mary much concern
Imagine, minus watch
Until she heard strange ticking sound
Coming from her crotch

Mummy....there's nothing in my book about a watch?

Don Matthews July 2019

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Can This Be Classed An Affliction ?

Always creating I can't seem to stop

Mind going round and around

Neurons zip-zapping, doing their bit

Looking for what can be found

Feeding on sensings which come to the brain

Aural and visual firings

Helped by the body's fine sensory touch

Connected by vast neural wirings

Looking and looking, the neurons don't stop

S...

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Blood on the Firm's Hands

The Firm which bought the factory

Sent the work offshore

Fired the factory workers

Don't need you anymore

Workers scuffled with police

Getting into rows

A baby's T-shirt “Dad's been fired

Who's going to feed me now?”

The Firm they didn't care at all

They did their job. Big bucks

So profit it destroyed these lives

The Firm...

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New Candidate for the Presidency

I'll vote for this new candidate

He's witty, clever, smart

He's also much more qualified

Than is the current fart

To poetize his brilliance

Is just wasting my time

He must be seen in action

He's in his top-most prime

So stop, don't waste time reading me

Watch action man, (no spin)

His writer (speech) knows what's requ...

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We've Turned Into a Throwaway Society

Society has now made us lazy

We throw away sox when they hole

Why bother with effort to darn them?

Who of us now does this on WOL?

Much easier to spend a few dollars

Drop into a store and buy more

Must admit I do feel a bit guilty

When binning holed sox that I wore

My mother would always bring needle

And thread out ...

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You're Wasting Your Time

If you don't like

My pokes at doom/gloom

Come back poking fun

At humour, entomb

I challenge you to

Knock fun on the head

There's no way you'll do it

I'm humour-fed bred

OK doom and gloom

Will visit sometimes

But dwelling on these

Won't make the sun shine

So try as you might

To knock fun out cold

You're wastin...

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