I Eat My Peas With Honey
And tales of derring-do.
Four lines, they can be rhyming
(That's Glow Worms to me and you).
Ending line is as usual.
Chalky
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The one containing tricks
Projoy
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Oh. Nothing. I'll go out instead.
Raak
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And find nothing at the flicks.
CdM
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And those who prick their noses
goldfinch
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Stub their knees and pick their toes.
I long for obsolescence
Chalky
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Swift turnaround's my thing
Projoy
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I'll transmigrate my essence
goldfinch
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These boots were made for something
Raak
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And something's what they'll do
Projoy
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You ordered flesh to go.
CdM
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I wish I were in Amsterdam
Projoy
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I know a bank where wild thyme blows
Raak
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That's sweetly sprung in June
Chalky
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And like my love the musk-red rose
Projoy
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To be or not to be, that is
Chalky
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But personae more dramatis
CdM
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Sketch a much darker plot
Projoy
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Is this a dagger or a sponge
Raak
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Or duck-billed platypus?
Rosie
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It's next-door's tatty puss. Softers, old bean, this is not a f****** limo
Projoy
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If music be the food of love
goldfinch
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But if you like your love life bland
Chalky
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It's Musak all the way
Chalky
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Alas poor Yorick who I knew
Rosie
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In cat lives he's on ten. (Softers) Sorry - inappropriate comment a couple of goes back.
Software
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Today I've got a toothache True. [Rosie] No sweat.
Rosie
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I'd like to pull it out
goldfinch
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But with breath to make a dentist quake
Projoy
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I'll close my lips and pout
Projoy
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; A bag of shiny gems
Rosie
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From which all comfort stems.
goldfinch
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I wish my drill could crack a safe
Projoy
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I wish this safe would crack
Chalky
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Which lacks a rhyming knack
.. is ABAB rhyming pattern obligatory? Have often wondered ..
goldfinch
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ABAB has symmetry,
ABCB surprises.
ABAB? ABCB?
Both fine rhythmic devices. reveal
Kim
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I wish my Worms had rhythm
Raak
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Because I'm stuck at Witham
Projoy
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Until my train segues
Rosie
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And magnum let it be (Raak) I am sure (i.e. not absolutely sure) it's "Wittum". (Pj) I chortle.
Projoy
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A work of such wide scope, as
Raak
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Transcends mere you and me. [Rosie} I find now that I cannot remember how I've heard it when "this train will terminate at Witham, from where a rail replacement bus etc.". OTH, "rittum" ...
Bismarck
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[Witham] If it's the one in Essex, I used to work there and it was "Wittum" at that time.
[Rhymes] the original glowworm was abcb, and we did do an aabb not long ago. It's doggerel, it probably doesn't matter much.The A12 up from Chelmsford
Projoy
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I've travelled many times.
Projoy
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(Being from that part of the world, it is indeed Witt'm. I assumed Raak knew this and so decided to push the "misunderstanding the pronunciation from the spelling" joke a centimetre further.)
Chalky
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I'd leave my desk in Elmsford
Projoy
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I wish I were an orange
goldfinch
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But sharply dressed and full of zest
CdM
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In brandy, 80 proof I wish I were an orange
Unrhymably aloof
And on sale for two shillings, j-
-ust to show that that's the troof
Chalky
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It only takes an integer
Raak
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You tried to type a fraction
Projoy
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A practice much more vintage-r
Rosie
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But still requires redaction. (Pj) I jess lurve your grammar
Projoy
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A voice, ethereal silver
Rosie
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Calls me in the night
CdM
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In spring-green rhyme, until ver-
Projoy
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I wish that silver turned to green
Raak
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December turned to May