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Eddie Thompson is an expatriate Manxman who settled in Milton Keynes with his Welsh wife Enid and daughters Kirsty and Gill in 1981. His verses are based on his experiences, observations and thoughts about life and are for the most part refreshingly brief. They cover a variety of subjects from getting older to singing, musicianship, forgetfulness and the way people talk. Witty, entertaining and often highly topical, Eddie’s verses, already acclaimed by his friends, are now published for the first time for a wider audience. Fellow bass Peter Osborne, who contributed the drawings, writes: “I love to put aside my oils and palette and join my friend Eddie Thompson, the wordsmith, poet and sideswiper, and add a few visuals to his verbals."
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Poetry Lite - Eddie Thompson
Eddie Thompson
POETRY LITE
Verses about life
with drawings by Peter Osborne
Copyright © 2016 by Eddie Thompson
Eddie Thompson has asserted his Right under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.
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ISBN: 978-1-86151-628-2
DEDICATION
To Enid
(En as in Endear – Welsh!)
On my meat you are the mustard,
On my sweet you are the custard,
On my egg you are the salt,
In the keg you are the malt,
To my fork you are the knife,
I thank my God you are my wife.
About the Author
Eddie Thompson is an expatriate Manxman who settled in Milton Keynes with his Welsh wife Enid and daughters Kirsty and Gill in 1981. His verses are based on his experiences, observations and thoughts, hence (he says) their brevity; they cover a variety of subjects from Manx cats to Milton Keynes. Although Eddie has been versifying for many years, this is the first time any of his verses have been published.
Peter Osborne writes: I love to put aside my oils and palette and join my friend Eddie Thompson, the wordsmith, poet and sideswiper, and add a few visuals to his verbals.
Contents
Short ones
Limericks
Six-liners
Long ones
Longer ones
SHORT ONES
Move over William McGonagall, all is forgiven
For with howlers unheard of these verses are riven.
On Being Brief
That’s Life
A Life of Rhyme?
The Truth: Discuss
My Psychological Crutch
The Ultimate Test
We Have a Plumbing Problem
What’s His Name Again?
The Plotted Pant
Hanging On
The Harbinger of Summer
The Selection Process
Green Energy?
The Bird Bath
Celia Celia 2
Write Out 100 Times
Mozart’s Mass in C
What’s Your Beef?
Minimalism
ON BEING BRIEF
These verses are short – Christmas cracker length,
And it may be said with confidence, brevity is their strength,
They’re my observations of life, laced with a sprinkling of jollity,
And it may be said with confidence, they’re Christmas cracker quality.
THAT’S LIFE
In existential angst I wallow,
No longer fit for purpose,
An ageing piece of army surplus,
‘Tis a bitter pill to swallow.
A LIFE OF RHYME?
The plan was, to record events and thoughts, record them all in rhyme
The problem is, there’s not a