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Though the lump was the size of a grain
And caused me no serious pain,
The doctors agreed
That there was a need
To gouge out a chunk of my brain.
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Some think me incoherent
And think these words an ignorant rant
But
Eat the peanut not the hull
Bad apples are best to cull
Shoot an elephant and ignore an ant
LAND MINE -- LAPIS LAZULI
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Life is tough like a land mine
We all go through and learn to shine
Spreading our wings in all endeavors
Scraping our knees on tracks and rivers
Playing our hand to be truly
Until we achieve our lapis lazuli
PLUVIAL - UMBRAGE
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The changeable climate of Wales
Encourages parasol sales;
They give umbrage in June
But are also a boon
In showers or pluvial gales.
REHEARSAL – REQUEST
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The poor actor, at last night's rehearsal,
Felt his lines go in vap'rous dispersal.
At his urgent request
They performed a small test:
Prose will not be retained, but a verse'll.
OLEO – ONCE
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Ole King Oleo had it all
A Jester named Lester
A Queen named Jean...but no Dunce
I hid undercover
Lest he discover
That I was a Dunce...once
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She bang he bang life is a shell game
Yin Yang play game and play game more
Then Yin like poontang
Then Yang like yangyang
No more yin no more yang nevermore.
LOVE LOWERCASE
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I write "paris, the city of love"
in my heart - tops, when push comes to shove -
But I'm deep in disgrace,
'Cause it's writ lowercase:
Can't recall what it's capital of.
SHROUD – SIDE
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In London the smoke used to shroud
Side streets in malodorous cloud;
Old-timers remember
One postwar December
When smog culled the capital's crowd.
ENTERPRISE – EXCEED
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To lose weight is a tough enterprise,
Thus, I offer this word to the wise:
Let not intake exceed
The cube root of your greed,
And your pants will diminish in size.
FLITTING – FLOTATION
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While you are flitting merrily about
Remember you are going to scream and shout
When you spend time and effort in frustration
As the vessel you are on begins to sink
And everyone on board scampers for flotation.
AMMONOID - VERBARNECTOCALYX
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Maybe they're unwritten, or lost in the depths of antiquity, but here they are, IIRC:
Sparteye's Game, as originally conceived: Use two particular given words in a short poem. Then present your own pair of words for the next person to use similarly.
-- The verse is [usually] in the form of a limerick, with its standard rhythm (the most frequently-bent rule)
-- The words to be used are not arbitrary; they come from some word-centered dictionary, or thesaurus, or such. They should be "index words," the first and last words on a single page.
The challenge in the game is to find word pairs that will be difficult (read "interesting," if you like) to incorporate into a single coherent short verse, not to bring the game to a screeching halt. Impossible words really aren't that hard to come by; there's no virtue in it.
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AMMONOID - VERBARNECTOCALYX The technical term ammonoidIs a word that I tend to avoid. VerbarnectocalyxAnd strange words like Gaelic's Keep skilled phoneticians employed. DISMAY – DISUSED
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All of a sudden to my dismay,
A rich old man fell down in the clay,
He picked himself up and wasn't bemused,
For his suit was quite muddy and looked disused.
FALLACY - FINITE
Well done A C!!
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Some physicists think it is clear
That the cosmos has always been here.
A fallacy found
In minds less profound
Is the finite creation idea.
PALATIAL – PANTOMIME
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A palatial home can be a thing of beauty,
Maybe a cabin is more in style,
The fruits of our labor come with added time,
But all who endeavor to risk the chance,
Are only going to find out at a glance,
That it is all a pantomime.
SAXON - SCABBARD
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As I learned in a history course,
The Saxon invaders had force.
With broadsword and scabbard,
Their troops fiercely jabbered
Until they succumbed to the Norse.
BUNDLE – BYWORD
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In my job as a vote promoter I bundle bread
To pay folk to vote be they 'live or be they dead
My byword is "Vote Democrat"
They seldom do- fancy that!
So instead I take names, kick butt, growl, and knock heads
SCHEMER - SCIENCE
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I'm just an idealist dreamer,
Not an active political schemer.
I place no reliance
On theory or science
Advanced by some tub-thumping screamer.
MILLER – MISCELLANY
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To a miller be an occupation,
But a profession be on graduation,
Signs and wonders never heard of,
A great encounter to reflect upon.
It is a chore to the many,
That a person of high esteem be miscellany.
PHICON - PIGATRY
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Really, Bazr? What down underworld dictionary has those two obscure words at your casual flip? And otherwise your poem as well is obscure. 
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Isn't obscurity the spice of life? We all pale into obscurity, don't we? It's from Mirriam-Webster Open Dictionary on New Words & Slang.
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I think that I get pigatry –
I watch it each night on TV –
But I don't get phicon:
Run, purple, or Nikon?
To me it's a deep mystery.
VOLE – VOWEL
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Isn't obscurity the spice of life? We all pale into obscurity, don't we? It's from Mirriam-Webster Open Dictionary on New Words & Slang.  Most of us anyhow!
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There was a pretentious old soul Who pronounced 'Vowel' something like 'Vole'. As an owner of land, He thought himself grand, And said his name 'Powell' as 'Pole'. REPTILE – RESTRAIN
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-> Yes I know, but maybe I should receive one star for being topical.  Listen my children and you shall hear
A rhymed black limerick by Nostradamus
The bear from the East, Putin, goes insane
Our reptile boy Motus, (read POTUS) doesn't restrain
Planes fall from the sky and we all die...all of us. GYPSY - GUSTO
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In a hot oriental bazaar,
A gypsy girl played the guitar.
Her skill was not much,
But her gusto was such
That the crowds all proclaimed her a star.
LOCOMOTIVE – LORGNETTE
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In 1842 Queen Victoria became the first monarch to ride in a car pulled by a locomotive. A failed assassination attempt on her life as she rode about in the royal horse-powered carriage a month earlier might have been her prompt.
Her footmen rode standing near the soot stack up front
Among cut flowers the Queen followed in a railcar with a loo
She looked out the window and raised her lorgnette
A grimy commoner was staring in - their eyes met
At that magic moment both simultaneously knew
That kings, queens, and commoners, would one day be few.
GORILLA GRABBING
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There was an enormous gorilla
Which lived in a zoo near Manila.
A man caused surprise
By grabbing its thighs
And marching it back to his villa.
SLIGHT – SLURRY
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I bump her 'cause I'm in a hurry,
Spill her drink. Now her eyes flash with fury.
She imagines a slight,
And she's ready to fight.
My eyes burn with vodka-ice slurry.
START – STATUTE
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I have to admit my mind was wandering (it often does that)
but I read both yours, AC, followed by Trom's, limericks
and I cannot print the vision I had by one following the
other. Thanks for the laugh, odd tho' it was.
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START – STATUTE
I have taken the liberty of pluralizing 'statute':
Some statutes have language that rambles,
And some start with lengthy preambles;
No wonder some students
Compare jurisprudence
To wading through thickets of brambles.
FOYER – FUSSY
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Please take all the liberties you like, as far as I'm concerned. The results are stupendous.
She was coy when they met in the foyer;
Apparently she's his employer.
He seemed nervous and fussy –
It was clear that the hussy
Intended to have him enjoy her.
FETE – FIDDLING
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Our church held a fete in July;
The weather was sunny and dry.
A fiddling pair
Played an old English air –
They were crap, but they gave it a try.
ASHLAR – ASTOUNDING
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At the time of the old city's founding,
The builders used stones without rounding;
They progressed to smooth rocks,
Then fine ashlar blocks –
Their rate of advance was astounding.
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She escaped o'er the wall of the cloister
Not to binge and to orgy and roister.
No, she took such a risk
To acquire a disc
From a band called the Cult of Blue Öyster.
GOUGE – GRAIN
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There's news of crop circles again!
Their means of production is plain:
Contraptions on strings
Gouge out perfect rings
While their wielders advance through the grain.
DOMESTIC – DUKE
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Seems the dukedom had problems domestic,
That the palace had rodents majestic.
The solution? The duke
Telephoned to some kook
In the listings: Ajax Anapestic.
MALEFICENT – MANAGE
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I hope "My Highness" never gets invited to that castle !
Good one, Peter.
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Thank you. Just had foundation work done on the house, and now we have a small creature abiding in the kitchen.
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