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Come on CC do your worst
Lay on me you're bestest verse....
Just for you @Fab Foodie :girl:

There was a chap
On CycleChat
Who had a very dodgy hat
We laughed we riled we took the piss
but FF liked that hat of his.
Until the pictures showed that hat
made him look a right prat.
He sobbed he sighed a gurgle he gave
as he threw his hat into the billowing wave...
The lesson learned is 'avoid that hat'
and don't mix poems and songs like that....
 
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Fab Foodie

Fab Foodie

hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
Location
Kirton, Devon.
Just for you @Fab Foodie :girl:

There was a chap
On CycleChat
Who had a very dodgy hat
We laughed we riled we took the piss
but FF liked that hat of his.
Until the pictures showed that hat
made him look a right prat.
He sobbed he sighed a gurgle he gave
as he threw his hat into the billowing wave...
The lesson learned is 'avoid that hat'
and don't mix poems and songs like that....
Chapeau!!
xx
 
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User169

Guest
Given the time of year. The Fall by William Barnes.

The length o’ days ageän do shrink
An’ flowers be thin in meäd, among
The eegrass a-sheenèn bright, along
Brook upon brook, an’ brink by brink.

Noo starlèns do rise in vlock on wing—
Noo goocoo in nest-green leaves do sound—
Noo swallows be now a-wheelèn round—
Dip after dip, an’ swing by swing.

The wheat that did leätely rustle thick
Is now up in mows that still be new,
An’ yollow bevore the sky o’ blue—
Tip after tip, an’ rick by rick.

While now I can walk a dusty mile
I’ll teäke me a day, while days be clear,
To vind a vew friends that still be dear,
Feäce after feäce, an’ smile by smile.
 
My favourite poem....
Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
 

Haitch

Flim Flormally
Location
Netherlands

If I Told Him


By Gertrude Stein

If I told him would he like it. Would he like it if I told him.
Would he like it would Napoleon would Napoleon would would he like it.
If Napoleon if I told him if I told him if Napoleon. Would he like it if I told
him if I told him if Napoleon. Would he like it if Napoleon if Napoleon if I told him.
If I told him if Napoleon if Napoleon if I told him. If I told him would he like it would
he like it if I told him.

Now.
Not now.
And now.
Now.
Exactly as as kings.
Feeling full for it.
Exactitude as kings.
So to beseech you as full as for it.
Exactly or as kings.

Shutters shut and open so do queens. Shutters shut and shutters and so
shutters shut and shutters and so and so shutters and so shutters shut and so
shutters shut and shutters and so. And so shutters shut and so and also. And
also and so and so and also.
Exact resemblance to exact resemblance the exact resemblance as exact
resemblance, exactly as resembling, exactly resembling, exactly in resemblance
exactly and resemblance. For this is so. Because.

Now actively repeat at all, now actively repeat at all, now actively repeat at
all.
Have hold and hear, actively repeat at all.
I judge judge.
As a resemblance to him.
Who comes first. Napoleon the first.
Who comes too coming coming too, who goes there, as they go they share,
who shares all, all is as all as as yet or as yet.
Now to date now to date. Now and now and date and the date.
Who came first Napoleon at first. Who came first Napoleon the first. Who
came first, Napoleon first.
Presently.
Exactly do they do.
First exactly.
Exactly do they do.
First exactly.
And first exactly.
Exactly do they do.
And first exactly and exactly.
And do they do.
At first exactly and first exactly and do they do.
The first exactly.
And do they do.
The first exactly.
At first exactly.
First as exactly.
As first as exactly.
Presently
As presently.
As as presently.
He he he he and he and he and and he and he and he and and as and as
he and as he and he. He is and as he is, and as he is and he is, he is and as he
and he and as he is and he and he and and he and he.
Can curls rob can curls quote, quotable.
As presently.
As exactitude.
As trains.
Has trains.
Has trains.
As trains.
As trains.
Presently.
Proportions.
Presently.
As proportions as presently.
Farther and whether.
Was there was there was there what was there was there what was there
was there there was there.
Whether and in there.
As even say so.
One.
I land.
Two.
I land.
Three.
The land.
Three
The land.
Three.
The land.
Two
I land.
Two
I land.
One
I land.
Two
I land.
As a so.
The cannot.
A note.
They cannot
A float.
They cannot.
They dote.
They cannot.
They as denote.
Miracles play.
Play fairly.
Play fairly well.
A well.
As well.
As or as presently.
Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.

And the dance that was put to it (read by Stein herself):


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2UCuVLi_E
 
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Fab Foodie

Fab Foodie

hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
Location
Kirton, Devon.
He sat on the bridge at midnight
His feet dangling in the water

Longfellow.
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
Two public toilet ones i remember from long ago.

One above the urinals said...If you're reading what i've put you might be pissing on your foot.

The other in the sit down bit went.. Do not sit on upon this seat as the crabs can jump 6 feet. If you think this is rather high, go next door the bastards fly
 
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User6179

Guest
The farking legs are farking old
The farking rides are farking cold
The farking tyre is farking flat
The farking riders have farking hats
The farking roads are farking wrong
The farking hills are farking long
It farking gets you farking down
Evidently Cycletown
 

Stephenite

Membå
Location
OslO
My Darkest Hour :sad:

Do not weep when I am gone
for it is I that chose the time to die
to be hounded like a wanted man
for money that I can't supply
for a daughter that I do not see
and a cottage I do not own
So pleases don't weep when I am gone
for I will find happiness later on.
By NN
Steady on. That's a bit personal isn't it? One of your own? I always wondered who NN was.
 
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