The Vernal Equinox

SPRING

Daffodils blooming

Spring is sprung

Drinking in the light

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Aashray and Anu

SCIENCE BOOK

When Aashray reads his science book

His sister Anu takes a look                                                               

At Cosmonauts and Astronauts

And marching Martians on the Moon

They're mixing magic with their thoughts                       

We’ll surely all be weightless soon

If everybody understood

That everything is made of wood

Where Barbie dolls are dressed in pearls

And even paper comes from trees

But in the mind of little girls

The moon is blue and made of cheese

Though living in this world down here

We’re subject to the atmosphere

So like an eagle in the sky

Just once the dream of puppet toys

When only pigs and cars could fly

To have a science book for boys

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Three Word Wednesday Week 470

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Week 470

Tasteful

Selfish

Realistic

Poetic Flash fiction in 51 syllables

THE NEW SHOES

Dawn bought a costume to go with the new shoes her husband Dave gave her. What a tasteful outfit thought her pet robot on the way from the store. I thought Dave was selfish but those glass slippers look so realistic.

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Three Word Wednesday Week 469

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Naked

Obey

Piercing

DOODLE

I tell her the girl sitting next to me

I can’t recall what my name used to be

But of course she didn’t recognise me

Any more than I knew who she used to be

Her piercing blue eyes questioning me

My name’s Doodle I stutter monorhyme

It’s not my real name it’s what they call me

Doodle she laughs that is a crazy name

I have to obey when they command me

I am their pet robot I must rename

The Batmobile driver used to be me

They have reprogrammed me down to downtime

The naked truth is you’re wrong she tells me

The Batmobile driver you see was me

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Clodhopper...

FIDDLESTICKS TO BEDLAM

Shoe size eleven maybe half past ten

He walks to work but doesn’t get much done

The dinosaur bell and little Big Ben

Claude the Cooper was a barrel of fun

Slipping beer to the grey that pulled the dray

Up from the brewery to the public bar

It was only his horse that knew the way

Today you couldn’t make that hill by car

Cobblestones and fiddlesticks to bedlam

Clodhopper they call him back at the yard

Hobbies are football - and hobnail hoodlum

The rubber-dub-dub - the odd game of cards

Jack and the beanstalk and his china plates

Clockwatching days at the factory gates

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