Category Archives: Parody

Have Another Go!

Posted on September 11, 2019 by colonialist

Once more unto the pool, dear friends, Once more; A gala for today the ends to score; Though J ducked out with her sore back, Young R the practice didn’t lack, And scored two thirds — ‘A’ team attack! — … Continue reading →

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Highs and Lows of Internet, Emotions, and Gardens

Posted on July 6, 2019 by colonialist

(To be sung to the tune of ‘My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean’) Why is it my line’s overloaded? Why is it that it comes and goes? Why is it I’m being so goaded? Oh, heaven alone really knows! Chorus … Continue reading →

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A Long One-Liner

Posted on May 15, 2019 by colonialist

Nothing could be finer Than replacing a pool liner In the morning Where the grassy stalks all twine around the base Making ripping sounds as I displace; Starting to get surly Where the dew is pearly early In the morning, … Continue reading →

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Sonnet or Moonnet.

Posted on April 27, 2019 by colonialist

For the 27th day of Na/GloPoWriMo, I’d like to challenge you to “remix” a Shakespearean sonnet. Shakespeare Sonnet XII When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I … Continue reading →

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Macbeth in Toyland

Posted on July 17, 2018 by colonialist

    Dub ill, dub ill, Toyland trouble, Buy a fern, and called Ron ‘Bubble’: (When witch had called poor Noddy sick, Sold him a fern to get well quick, But fern belonged to guy called Ron — Frothed at … Continue reading →

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Really Awful Rhyme at England Getting the Boot

Posted on July 13, 2018 by colonialist

— I have now deleted the draft and entirely reposted… —  — Yesterday I posted the following after posting the night before, but no post seems to have been posted. What, I wonder, is going on? Will this also vanish … Continue reading →

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Aloe and Good Buy Choo!

Posted on June 28, 2017 by colonialist

Oh, I do like to travel with a choo-choo, Oh, a choo-choo’s the thing for me and you, Oh, I do like to listen to that chug, chug, chug While I take in sherry with a glug, glug, glug So … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Excursions, Parody, Photography, Really Awful Rhyme, Wanders | Tagged , , , , , | 17 Comments

Falling Damp and Yucky Squirmy Things

Posted on May 15, 2017 by colonialist

We have had days and days of torrential downpour. At first I was happy when our porta-pool, sadly depleted by a burst pipe, filled up again. Then it became ridiculous. Not to mention, cold. Even now that deluges have moderated, … Continue reading →

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Too Stressed to write more than Two Stresses — Distress!

Posted on April 28, 2017 by colonialist

Dipodic or Skeltonic verse Has two beats moving in a hearse; Day Twenty-Eight GloPoWriMo Invites such skeletons to show! Skeltonic rhyme: Double time; A verbal crime Not worth a dime, With a mime Of eating slime And lime Mixed with … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, GloPoWriMo, NaPoWriMo, Parody, Poems, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged , , , , | 7 Comments

Summer the Time I am Really Awfully serious … Summer Other Time!

Posted on April 25, 2016 by colonialist

I have combined three recent NaPoRiMo prompts here: a sonnet, a mix of trad and mod, and continuing from an existing line (in this case of some obscure bloke who has just had a 400th birthday): Shall I compare thee … Continue reading →

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