Bingo!!

BIG TENT POETRY

http://bigtentpoetry.org/
asked us to use words from a list!

BINGO!

My mind was thin and frugal

So I made a stab at Google

To get a list of words that I could rhyme.

I'd been told to use a list,

And I said 'If you insist';

It seemed a little tricky at the time.

I found a site called 'Bingo'

Which had a way with lingo,

Creating lists for bingo games in schools.

For the topic I chose 'Climate';

If I found a word I'd rhyme it;

It seemed a game without too many rules!

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So here goes! I'll have a try.....

I see 'wet' and I see 'dry',

I see 'humid', and a reference to 'snow';

I see 'desert' I see 'grass'

I see 'frost' that shines like glass,

I see 'muggy' when we'd like a breeze to blow.

I see 'permafrost' that will stay

For ever and a day;

I see 'tropical' a glimpse of Paradise.

I see 'tundra', rather bleak,

And not a place I'd seek;

I see 'steppes' the site of freezing snow and ice.

'Semiarid' I must say

Says to me 'Best stay away'.

But 'savannas' sound enticing in a way.

'Subtropical'? Sounds good

And, clearly, so it should,

That's the climate that I'm living in today.

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There are some that I have missed

In this Bingo Climate List,

And my verses are the opposite of lyrical.

But the fact that I could trawl

And find anything at all

Was, to say the least, an unexpected miracle!

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BACKSEAT DRIVER

(An Acrostic)

"Better let me navigate!

Aren't you going to accelerate?

Careful! You took that corner fast!

Keep to the left! He can't get past!

See! I told you the tyres were worn!

Easy does it! Not on the lawn!

Actually you should use second gear!

Turn here! Turn here! Turn here! Turn here!

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Double-parking is a crime!

Remember you did it that other time!

It's getting late! Mind! Mind! Mind! Mind!

Vehicles coming up behind!

Empty parking over there!..........

Rudeness wont get you anywhere!"

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