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- I am a 61 year old man (United Kingdom)
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The boy who famously asked for more, / A morsel on his plate was all he saw, / The undying character of Oliver Twist / Whose tale of une
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On this raw and wintry day / Our people creep out of bed / Lingeringly gingerly is the way / As cold afflicts the head. / / Peering through protective glass / We see green vanished overnight, / Winter has trespassed on the grass /
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21 words, 4 comments, December 6, 2008. In Humor Contemporary Adult
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- Swindler's List at allpoetry
Swindler’s List - Not man's best friend at allpoetry
From a cute miaow you hear at the start Your cats can slyly captivate your heart - A lone wolf at allpoetry
Without a pack in a world alone / court he lacks he has no throne / no partner to gnaw upon a bone / poor lonely single left to moan / his world is such a desert zone. / With no-one he can call his own
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on And on the Thirteenth Day of Christmas ... by Frank E Gibbard, on December 20, 2008
On the accuracy front well spotted Al.
Well spotted Al, if you don't mind me calling you well spotted (old Airplane joke).
The twelve items I downloaded blind (sans proof-reading);the source I ripped it from had the "colly birds" variant. I too knew only the calling birds version. Research prompted, I found this I quote for interest's sake
< > Welcome to h2g2's attempt to decipher the mystery that is the song 'The 12 Days of Christmas'. You've come to the page that is concentrating on the line Four Calling Birds, and here's what our Researchers came up with when we asked them what on earth this line meant. For those of you with an interest in etymology, the term 'calling birds' in the song is a deviation from the original term 'colly' or 'collie bird'. 'Colly' means 'black' and came from the old word for coal, so the four colly birds in the carol are in fact blackbirds. This doesn't really explain why anyone should want to give their true love four blackbirds, but there's no accounting for taste>>
It could be this was a clerical or transcription error in the eBay auction description (as imagined)which happens a lot on the tinternet as one wag called it.
As gifts they never cut it in any century but served their religious analogy purposes, now mine comedically. Yes Al,any number of ladies dancing would be fine. THANKS FOR THE READ, COMMENT ET AL etc. Frank
Most gracious of you Al
Yes it was a labour having started. The poetic equivalent of pushing a peanut up a hill with one's nose. I would recommend the Alec Guinness film tho' he did rather overdo Fagin's nose. I am not about to tackle War & Peace any time or synopticise any other novels any time soon. Cheers & Happy New Year to you. Frank