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    Poetry Free Range
    Poetry Free Range
    Poetry Free Range
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    Poetry Free Range

    By Eddie Thompson

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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. He published his first volume, Poetry Lite, in 2015. This second collection again covers a variety of subjects from youth to age, singing to shopping and black puddings to religion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMereo Books
    Release dateFeb 20, 2017
    ISBN9781861517296
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      Poetry Free Range - Eddie Thompson

      Eddie Thompson

      POETRY FREE RANGE

      More 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.

      This book is a work of fiction and except in the case of historical fact any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

      Published by Mereo

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      A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not by way of trade or otherwise be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover, other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      ISBN: 978-1-86151-729-6

      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. Encouraged by seeing his first book of verses, Poetry Lite, published, Eddie has unearthed more of his work, again enhanced by Peter Osborne’s drawings, for this second collection. He writes:

      The plan was to list events and thoughts

      Record them all in rhyme

      The problem is, there’s not a lot of either

      And now I’m running out of time.

      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 verbaIs.

      Also by Eddie Thompson

      Poetry Lite

      To Enid, Kirsty and Gill

      The quality of these verses

      Is liable to change;

      The writer's mind is unconfined,

      It operates free range.

      INTRODUCTION

      This is a selection

      From a collection

      Of poetry, so-called,

      An apology

      Of an anthology;

      Prepare to be appalled.

      Contents

      Short Ones

      Limericks

      Six-Liners

      Long Ones

      Longer Ones

      Epilogue

      SHORT ONES

      In case you wonder

      It’s not poems by the yard,

      It’s five lines or under

      And limericks are barred.

      Evolution

      People

      Remote Control

      Self-Awareness

      Fur Trade

      Twinkle Twinkle

      OK, I’m Irrational

      Methodism

      Ithyphallic

      Premier Division

      The MML

      Cocoa

      Cocoa (2)

      Hope Springs Eternal

      The Selection Process

      Thatcherism and Wales

      A Worker’s Dwelling

      Place Names

      Hope Springs Eternal (2)

      Hoping for a Resurrection

      EVOLUTION

      What lies ahead re natural selection?

      What next, on our evolutionary ladder?

      Possibly extra-sensory perception,

      Personally I’d prefer a bigger bladder.

      PEOPLE

      There are some who fill up our tanks with their gasoline

      And others who are clearly the grit in life’s Vaseline.*

      *‘The grit in life’s Vaseline’ – a phrase from the song ‘Leopold Allcocks’, by Jake Thackray.

      REMOTE CONTROL

      No one enters our life by chance,

      Some come to test but most to enhance,

      Nothing is as it seems on the surface,

      Everyone enters our lives for a purpose.

      SELF-AWARENESS

      Beware the ills of self-inflation

      And its popular partner self-adulation

      Keep in mind self-preservation,

      As in time they will lead to self-denigration

      And that terrible punishment, self-condemnation.

      FUR TRADE

      What? Wipe my bum with the cat!

      On my honour, I couldn’t do that,

      What an unhygienic

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