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The plant right away struck my fancy;
The odds of encountering it? Chancy:
Just in woods. The expert
Called it false miterwort,
But everyone knew it as Nancy.
Cheap, I know, but I've been a Beatles fan since they showed up on the CBS Evening News in 1963. Can't be helped.
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The plant right away struck my fancy;
The odds of encountering it? Chancy:
Just in woods. The expert
Called it false miterwort,
But everyone knew it as Nancy.
Cheap, I know, but I've been a Beatles fan since they showed up on the CBS Evening News in 1963. Can't be helped.
Mister Tromboniator; Rhubarb is the Beetles and A.C. is the Stones but you are Elvis Presley - don't apologize. 
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We trudged through a light snowy dusting
To a pool hall, decrepit and rusting,
In wintry Nebraska,
Or maybe Alaska.
That populous den was disgusting.
LUMINOUS – LUNG
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In the coal furnace fissures had sprung,
Spreading sulfurous gas us among.
The crack menaced luminous
With miasma bituminous,
Pouring vapors of death to each lung.
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Far be it for me to bitch and complain I dance at funerals I sing in the rain But complain-compositeHas been rhymed, hasn't it Did your train of thought leave without the train?  RUG - RUMP
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At fashion’s last thing you should jump -
It’s bad form to dress like a frump -
But when ‘cutting a rug,’
If your pants are too snug,
You’ll be over-displaying your rump
PHYSIOTHERAPY - PICK
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complain-composite
Has been rhymed, hasn't it
Maybe so. I wondered when I typed it, did a search and didn't see it, so I posted it. I'm in the best company (Hi, Rhuby!), repeating myself.
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The Physiotherapy Section
Has torture machines for election.
Any one that you pick
Makes you sore, weak, or sick,
But purportedly helps you with flexion.
MESS – METAPHOR
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Nice one Peter...I'll take a copy to work and show them in the Physio Dept.
jenny jenny...love you train of thought
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Thanks, Candy. Please tell them that I really do respect their work, but that everything is a fair target for the sake of a rhyme.
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The Physiotherapy Section
Has torture machines for election.
Any one that you pick
Makes you sore, weak, or sick,
But purportedly helps you with flexion.
Love it, Peter.
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Writers who have no more to say, say it with metaphor Thus Faulkner('tho dead) will live obscure forevermore But when I say "mess of greens" What I mean is "mess of greens" And folks in Aberdeen know 'zactly what I mean, fer shore And in Aberdeen "fer shore" (for sure) rhymes with "metaphor" DEGAGE - DEMONETTEfrom the Endangered English Dictionary: degage (day-ga-ZHAY) casual or easygoing wearing a plaid cap with a degage airdemonette (DEE-mo-net) a little demon a wild younger son who is a demonette in training
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A debauched demonette dégagé
Drank a dozen dual daiquiris a day.
"Though my devilry's horrible,
Described as deplorable,
I define it as 'deemed déclassé.'"
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Wonderful alliteration, Peter!
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*bows deeply* Thank you. It took tons of time to tune!
Now, if I could just remember to update the subject line…
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The men of one Iron Age tribe
Would here and there neatly inscribe
A V-sign, quite small,
On an inner cave wall –
A symbolic two-fingered gibe?
PATINA – PATTER
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Wonderful alliteration, Peter! May I piggy back: beautiful.
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Cuneiform????(yuk,yuk) - Nice, I like.
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The patter of feet which are tiny
Across floors that are polished and shiny,
Though we hold the sound dear
And so pretty to hear,
Will leave a patina quite grimy
CORUNDUM - COST
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The joy of reading a touching limerick.
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One form of corundum is ruby.
I know this, though I am a noobie.
With beauty galore,
Its cost is much more
Than identical weight in a doobie.
BUCKSHOT – BUGGY
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A gem if a Limerick, Peter!
When ere I desire some fresh air
My buggy will take me out there:
To make sure that my luck’s not
Run out, I load buckshot
To give any muggers a scare!
PIGEON - PILLAR
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"A gem if a Limerick, Peter!"  Is our Rhub being rude or fat-fingered?
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Racing pigeons run round from post to pillar
Homing pigeons home to home from hither
The Passenger Pigeons
Once numbering two billion
Are as dead as a Dodo with us as the killer
OVERPASS - OVERTURE
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Now that is a fun limerick with a definite lesson. Thanks.
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An Overture leads to a Suite;
An overpass leads to the street.
In competitive sport
Or proceedings in court,
An oversight leads to defeat.
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Beautiful, AC. Almost wants to be a sonnet!
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I swills down a pint of weedkiller,
Then lashes me 'and to the tiller.
I sails in foul weather,
And goes hell-for-leather.
Me life on the sea is a thriller!
PARCEL – PARKING
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Nice limerick, Tromboniator – full of salt!
I noticed a postal van parking;
The parcel it brought had no marking,
Except a small sign
Saying "Don't drink this wine".
How completely and utterly barking!
(From the British expression "barking mad")
RACE – RADAR
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Ministerial sound bites, when made, are
Anodyne as drinks of orangeade are.
They’re made to save face,
So keep mentions of race
Totally under the radar.
SUPERSTORE - SUPPORT
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A vampire at the superstore
Bought a vat of twelve gallons of gore.
Overfilled by a quart,
'Twas too much to support,
And he slopped it all over the floor.
CLEAR – CLICK
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...him much.  We hid in a thicket by a crick In fear of another White Eyes' trick "Come on out" they said "We are friends" they said "All is clear" They said; then we heard a click .
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Trom and JJ - you are exceeding your expectations here.
Bravo and Brava!
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A vampire who came home from shopping
Went straight to his dusting and mopping
When he tripped on his crypt
And busted his lip
Whose blood was he actually dropping?
-saparris
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A vampire who came home from shopping
Went straight to his dusting and mopping
When he tripped on his crypt
And busted his lip
Whose blood was he actually dropping?
-saparris
Cute, Luke. Your question got me smiling!
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At the interval in Don Pasquale
I had fish with acqua minerale –
A taste so sublime
That I lost track of time
And damn nearly missed the finale.
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FINALE - FISH
Alaskan desserts are no folly.
We use local resource for finale.
My favorite dish
Is made out of fish:
It's a blueberry-salmon tamale.
(Grandparenting is a bit scary:
I must know cloud or lecture on fairy;
I can talk about birds,
But for picking guide words
My grandson has no dictionary.
Hope to be back with words fairly shortly.)
Edit: Never mind; AC nosed me out!
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Blueberry salmon tamale?
my belly is doing flip flops.
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