Lepidoptera
Do you mean a butterfly?
No, a caterpillar
Or maybe a swimming style
Something of short duration

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Sextet

Sad Sextet.
Rainy day
Wet dog on pavement
Looking in
Seeing me
Sit by the cosy fireside
Ignoring its plight.

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To fight monsters
Is commendable and just
As long as we know
We must not become immoral
And behave monstrously

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Family Affairs

Family Affairs

Uxorious
Devotion to wife
Dotingly
Submissive
Sounds like a serious offence
In the dictionary

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When time is hard
Someone must take the blame
Evict the poor
Bus them to another country
As they now do in France

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Thank you very much
I shall treasure this always
Your profundity
But I fail to understand
The point of obscurity

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A cape made of wool
Not for elegance but warmth
Oscar Wilde frowns
Woolly socks and winter boots
I`m a jobbing poet

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Because of love
I became an almond tree
Ugly in winters
Come spring I wear pink flowers
And feel ever so artistic

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Writers and poets
Think they can be immortal
By ink a pen
But everything ever written
Will rot as autumn leaves do.

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Roses

Shadorma (roses)

Poor woman
Sell roses in streets
Of Oslo
Law arrives
She has no proper permit
Flowers confiscated.

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