Writing

A Right Breeze

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd July, 2018

When the wind finds the windows are closed It bangs & whines,  it batters & blows It whips such a breeze  makes papa’s nuts freeze It squeezes the sneezes right…

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Pirate Pete

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd July, 2018

Pete the pirate, a master of fails. Once, he dressed up in top hat & tails, said he’s off with his shank to drill a hole in the plank But…

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plank

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd July, 2018

There once was a man from Australia Embarrassed by his genitalia As he’d never scored and holes need be bored He broke up a ship’s plank & nailed her.

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Shadow limerick

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd July, 2018

There once was a deep little shadow without any body to follow He got in a muddle Fell in a puddle & now he’s a little bit shallow

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Under the Guvmints spell

By Denise Carruthers / 20th June, 2018

Once t’was a stork brought the babies. Then kisses and what ifs and maybe’s. When there was no more of that, under the cabbage old hat. They gathered the children…

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limerick Pan’s flute

By Denise Carruthers / 25th September, 2017

There’s Pan living in Butte He loves to play with his flute Till it turns fountain Runs down the mountain Where the base of a tree is a root

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afar

By Denise Carruthers / 16th July, 2017

There was a man from afar Who kept his life in a jar But it got infected When fun was ejected And spent itself over the bar

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nudnick n. = person who is a bore or a nuisance

By Denise Carruthers / 23rd May, 2017

There once was a nudnick from space Who talked with hot air out of place Words floated by Each rolling eye Wished he’d fall flat on his face

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bike

By Denise Carruthers / 19th May, 2017

There once was a man from Alaska On a bike to his love in Nebraska So loved by the girl Her head in a whirl Said yes before he could…

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mermaid

By Denise Carruthers / 15th May, 2017

once was a mermaid named Louise & subject to capricious whimsies sang for the wind then changed her mind serenading seafarers was a breeze image by mermaid wallpapers

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Jest

By Denise Carruthers / 3rd May, 2017

There was a lad from Bucharest And everything he said in jest His poking fun Made everyone Pray for a gag to mute this pest

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hell’s bells

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd May, 2017

Once was a man from down under. An idiot causing much blunder. He stumbled & fell. Smashed up all hell. Now Satan is crying asunder.

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poor poet

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2017

This bard who eats of the tree Has more bark than bite poetry His ink turns to sap No rhyme in his rap His readers sleep thru history

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misanthrope

By Denise Carruthers / 10th April, 2017

This misanthrope from Calcutta wished man away in the gutter to live with ra rats get ate by cuh cats such loathing caused him to stutter

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stone the crow

By Denise Carruthers / 31st March, 2017

There once was two birds in a park who did it for a bit of a lark. Two dogs peeking, one of them speaking; “I say, did those ravens just…

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