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    Poems of Fun
    Poems of Fun
    Poems of Fun
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    Poems of Fun

    By Charles Wylie

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    Among the serious matters of life there is plenty of room for fun, so I hope you will get some out of this 7th of nine eBooks, complemented by those of Love, Friends, Mystery, Nature, Parting and Grief, Faith and Family, Heroes and Indignation, and The Sea. Perhaps this is the area in which you will find it easy to write verses yourself. If I can, you can: promise!

    The topics in this book are widely varied, from fun in the garden to fun at the dentist's surgery. Have a good time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles Wylie
    Release dateDec 16, 2013
    ISBN9781310105395
    Poems of Fun
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    Charles Wylie

    Charles Wylie is a professional British seaman and an amateur dinghy and yacht sailor. He is the luckiest man on the planet, being husband to Jean, father of four, grandfather to nine and godfather to ten. Poetry is a hobby, together with sailing, chess, Scottish Country Dancing, languages, and a variety of other pursuits. He is tickled pink to have been headhunted at the age of 78. As a seaman he had visited all the continents in ships by the age of 21 at over 50 ports and had survived his destroyer being bombed in the Korean War when only just 17 years old. He attributes a reasonable command of the English language to his education at Taunton's Grammar School in Southampton, which set him up for life in four short years. He is particularly grateful to the Royal Navy for its having been a father figure and a source of immense pride for over 65 years. The navy promoted him 10 times, but because he started as a Boy Seaman that means he achieved only the modest rank of Commander (happy with that.) His naval friends (to whom he pays equal respect) range from Able Seamen to Admirals.He is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, a Freeman of the City of London and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.His poetry was written for himself (and occasionally for family or friends) and is published now after many years of friendly badgering by dear ones. Self-publishing through Smashwords was chosen because he is confident that no modern publisher would want to publish his generally old-fashioned rhyming and scanning verses.Charles is a happy man, much blessed.

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      Poems of Fun - Charles Wylie

      Sailor/Poet Series One

      LOVE (23 poems)

      Sailor/Poet Series Two

      FRIENDS (44 poems)

      MYSTERY (56 poems)

      NATURE (29 poems)

      PARTING AND GRIEF (29 poems)

      Sailor/Poet Series Three

      FAITH & FAMILY (56 poems)

      FUN (40 poems)

      HEROES & INDIGNATION

      THE SEA (36 poems)

      Memoires

      First Words, Last Words (to be published in 2014)

      WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT 'POEMS OF FUN'

      You really should publish your poems.

      -Many chums. (All my friends are kindly.)

      There's should be a comma at the end of the seventh line…

      -A helpful nit-picker.

      Not bad.

      -My wife. (Well, she would, wouldn't she?)

      Please send your own comments to:

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      eBooksByCharlesWylie

      What others are saying about 'Poems of Fun'

      Introduction

      Poems of Fun

      On Looking Into A Rhyming Dictionary

      Head Gardener

      Sixty One And Counting

      Thriving Driving

      Weekend Break

      NYE Olympics

      A Pattern Puzzle

      Estuary Drinking

      Sylvia's Rook

      Fings Aint Wot They Uster Be

      The Missing Slug

      The Slug That Was Found

      Bright Sparkes

      William Is Innocent

      If Y'All Aind-Ever Bee-un T'Tayksus

      William Kinless

      The Man In The Moon Is Lying

      Night Musings At Giza

      Prayer To Prayer At Luxor

      My Tooth's Loose

      Denzil And The Storm

      Our Dear Ol' Humph

      Pitch And Putt At Stouts Hill

      August Fruits

      Home Again

      Kitchen Outlook

      Confusion At The Tate

      A New Sort Of Burns' Address

      The Hunt For The Haggis

      Basic Physics

      The Glastonbury Thorn

      Doggerel On Self-Discipline

      Worldwide Thoughts On Carpe Diem

      A Sorry Dick

      This Is It!

      Design Fault

      Kindle, Kindle, Burning Bright

      Twenty Four Autumn Hours

      Our Fang Farrier

      The Plume

      About the Author

      Acknowledgements

      A word from the author about you

      Warning

      eBooks by Charles Wylie

      INTRODUCTION:

      Have you tried writing poetry? It's great fun, and if I can do it, anyone can. With any luck, these verses of mine will get you going. If you want to see what an ordinary mortal can do, then read on. You don't have to be anyone special to be able to put your thoughts down in poetry. I've collected mine in categories of LOVE, FRIENDS, MYSTERY, NATURE, PARTING & GRIEF, FAITH & FAMILY, FUN, HEROES & INDIGNATION, and THE SEA (I'm a sailor/poet.

      By the way, nearly all of them rhyme and scan in the good old-fashioned style.

      This book by Charles Wylie holds some of over 240 poems published in 9 books in three series (1, 2 and 3). Series 1 contains just one free book (of LOVE poems) to whet your appetite. The other two series contain over 150 and 170 poems respectively. Some poems appear in more than one category. See the list of other books at the end.

      The author (click on ‘About the author’ in the Table of Contents) makes no claim to literary excellence, but wrote all the poems for his own satisfaction. Charles claims that some of them have merit, but all have been included (warts and all) for the sake of completeness, at the request of family and friends. Unusually, most of the poems have a short introductory note to widen the reader’s experience. All the poems are in chronological order of composition, with the date in the 'By' line.

      Here we go, then; just turn the page.

      POEMS OF FUN

      (Most of my poems are preceded by notes intended to enhance the reader's understanding and enjoyment of the verses.)

      Note. In spite of the enthusiasm evident in this ‘pome’, I haven’t looked at the dictionary since then. ‘Screaming Lord Such’ was an eccentric who fought many times for election to Parliament. He claimed to represent ‘The Monster Raving Loony Party’ and managed to get quite a lot of votes.

      ON LOOKING INTO A RHYMING DICTIONARY

      By Charles Wylie 1 May 1995

      I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first took up this book,

      But then, oh joy! It

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