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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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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!
Hidden text
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
Raak
Oh! To be in Trebizond
Chalky
In 1461
Simons Mith
I'd say I was Agent Bond
Looks like Q's latest gadget is a bit temperamental...
Software
Hello, everyone!
Radox The Green
I need a Covid passport
Raak
To see my Chinese gran
Chalky
The funeral's in Wuhan
Bismarck
Where bats freely disport.
[Chalky] Patience, patience
Rosie
And now I've lost my glasses
CdM
I'm drinking from the bottle
Chalky
Much like the swigging masses
KagomeShuko
I can barely waddle.
penelope
Today is not so boring
Chalky
My camel's come for tea
Rosie
Good job I've been storing
Raak
Its favorite raspberr
ee
.
Chalky
Whilst brushing up my repartee
Rosie
Of devastating wit
Radox The Green
I found that I was shouted down
penelope
By one entitled tit.
Software
Just because I'm sexy
Raak
Don't take my “no” as “yes”
Chalky
My signals are complex, see?
penelope
My beard, moustache, and dress.
Rosie
Don't just stand there smirking
Chalky
We need some answers fast
penelope
This strategy's not working
CdM
We’re living in the past
tbc
Chalky
We must address the elephant
Simons Mith
And use this GPS
Software
Or nothing will get better
nights
And we'll still be in this mess.
penelope
Delivering an elephant
Tuj
The midwife's sternest test?
Rosie
Stand well clear - they're heavy
Software
Well, now! Who'd've guessed?
nights
Autumn nights are drawing in
Chalky
To tinge the skies with gold
Software
And Mr Frosty's fingers
Rosie
Will have you in their hold.
CdM
Summertime is coming
nights
At least in parts more austral
Rosie
But up here it's dark at four
Chalky
When shadows haunt the claustral
Software
Christmas time is looming
Raak
There
will
be fun for all
Rosie
Boris has commanded it
penelope
At the Covid-19 ball
Mercy killing. Onwards.
Raak
Beware the claws of Omnicron!
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sic
Software
Which Borish vows to fight
Rosie
But any vow that Boris makes
Chalky
Is just a pile of shite
Rosie
I wish I were a teabag
(Chalky) Couldn't've put it better meself.
Software
Floating in a mug
Chalky
Waiting to be pulled out
Radox The Green
And go dripping on the rug.
penelope
I wish I were a teaspoon
Rosie
For I'm a nat'ral stirrer
Software
I'd swish about inside your mug
Quality Control
mugs off
Chalky
Whilst rebooting some Glow Worms
Rosie
For amusiement I need
Sorry, I'm a bit pissed. It's the brandy, y'know. Dreadful stuff.
Software
To get some improved scansion
Raak
Indeed!
Raak
To again reboot this glow-worm
nights
I write a witty line
Chalky
A quick fix for the short term
- [invoking ABAB]
penelope
The closing punch is mine!
Software
The glow-worm's running smoother
nights
and I, for one, am glad
Rosie
We've found our feet and who the
penelope
hell could claim that that's all bad?
Rosie
I wish I were a plectrum
trad.
Software
A little plucking thing
penelope
And play a tuneful spectrum
dodged that one by the skin of our glow-worm teeth
Chalky
Of stuff you'd like to sing
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