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    Poetry Lite
    Poetry Lite
    Poetry Lite
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    Poetry Lite

    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. 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."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMereo Books
    Release dateJul 11, 2016
    ISBN9781861516282
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      Book preview

      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.

      Published by Mereo

      Mereo is an imprint of Memoirs Publishing

      25 Market Place, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 2NX, England

      Tel: 01285 640485, Email: info@mereobooks.com

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      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.

      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: 978-1-86151-628-2

      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

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