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Home » Poetry » Limerick

Category: Limerick

hot dogs

Hot Dogs and Ham

by Melinda J. Irvine2 March 20182 March 2018

There was a young fellow called Kevin Who liked to eat potted meats and devon And hot dogs and ham And saveloys and spam Oh he ate, and shot straight, into heaven © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Premonition…

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v shaped log with an axe

An Imperfect Limerick

by Melinda J. Irvine2 October 20172 Comments

there was a young man that I worshiped who had a strange disease (let’s call it ‘perfect’) but as the doctor explained it could not be contained yeh I suppose that’s really why I divorced him © 2017 Melinda J.…

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Qualm

by Melinda J. Irvine21 May 2017

oh there once was a girl called Miss Vine who could hang like a thread from a power-line she hung there avariciously gobbling free electricity until someone pulled the wool from the twine © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Qualm and Descend

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To engage fully in the work of art, all you really need are the skills you already have. ERIC BOOTH.

About Mel.

Melinda J. Irvine is an Australian writer, designer, and musician living between the Philippines and Australia. Mel is adopted mum to Jerry, a Filipino boy she met while volunteering after Typhoon Yolanda. All the money she earns as a professional writer is used to support Jerry’s recovery — plus help other marginalised kids see their own potential

neXtDRAFT zine # 68.

neXtDRAFT 68. February 2020

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