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Pea and Honey Recipes
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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.
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penelope
With bluer skies and lengthening days
Rosie
It's time to set the heath ablaze
Raak
A roaring fire is just the thing
Chalky
To make the roasting pigeons sing
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AABB silliness
Chalky
I long to be a glow worm
penelope
A glow worm's never bored
Simons Mith
A butt that shines is all they need
Rosie
To get themselves adored.
Chalky
I yearn to be a clerihew
Raak
But cannot break the mould
KagomeShuko
Boris Johnson is my name.
penelope
Same old, same old, same old.
Software
Soon it'll be midsummer
Raak
The pollen count sky-high
Rosie
'Cos allergy's a bummer
(KagS) So it's you, is it
Chalky
I often question why
CdM
I wish I were an epic
Radox The Green
But I never learned to ep
Software
So I'll stay among the shadows
Chalky
And do so step-by-step
KagomeShuko
I wish I had a genie
Chalky
In a lamp of molten brass
penelope
With a gently glowing yellow light
pls pls pls...
Raak
That shines out of his arse.
What you had in mind, pen?
penelope
[Raak] Yes, and thank you - but it wasn't just me. You could see the other contributors were all building up to it...
I wish that it were pay day
It is actually, but that just means I can afford the poetic license to imagine that it's not
Software
Then for a while I will feel flush
Raak
I'll have a splendid gay day
Rosie
And top up my fund labelled "slush".
penelope
The ration is one verse per week
Software
Or that's what it would seem
Chalky
Such stinginess deserves a tweak
CdM
If we aspire to meme
KagomeShuko
Rationing poems ought to be a crime
Kim
As woeful scansion is
Rosie
Equally, a clunky rhyme
Chalky
Isn't quite the biz
penelope
Such clunkiness in public prose
KagomeShuko
Is common as a loaf of bread
Rosie
So let us roundly condemn those
Chalky
Whose rhymes have no street cred
KagomeShuko
Dogs are funny creatures
Raak
Although they're none too bright
penelope
Their sweet appealing features
Software
Yes, but they smell and bark all night
Chalky
I hope to take a holiday
Raak
In far-off Timbuktoo
Rosie
I hope they've got an airport
Software
And a ladies' loo
penelope
I've booked a short vacation
Bismarck
To somewhere where it's dry
Chalky
Because my medication
Software
Tends to make me high
Radox The Green
Obligatory rhyming
Raak
Is really not so hard
Software
But sometimes it just takes a lot
CdM
... All right, Software—you're barred!
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Not really. :)
penelope
I try to make it
simple
easy
Rosie
'Cos we're all pretty dim
Software
Our IQ rating is the pits
KagomeShuko
At least it's more than
HIM
.
Rosie
I wish I were a laser beam
Juxtapose
At least I'd have some focus
Raak
My photons in a single team
Bismarck
Marking out my locus.
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And don’t complain about the pronunciation.
A laser beam of sheerly, starkly, unstoppable energy carving an unbridgeable chasm between the previous glow-worm and the following one
Rosie
I'm glad I'm not anonymous
Software
For then no one would know
penelope
That no one really knows me
Chalky
So won't mourn me when I go
Software
Now I'm really famous
Simons Mith
My TikTok's taken off
Rosie
I'm known worldwide as Seamus
Chalky
The new Rachmaninoff
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