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Flash Poems must be completed within fifteen minutes, must not be edited after submission until the week has expired, and must contain within the poem the words set down in the challenge at the start of the week.

This weeks words: Blue, Windchime, Marlebone and Thump.

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Poor Marlebone - 2 minutes by MummyPenguin

Marlebone was feeling blue
She didn't know quite what to do
So she gave the wind chime a mighty thump
And now her head has an enormous lump.

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By the same Poet
Topaz and Sparkle
Stationary?
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Windchimes by donna

Ages it had taken him to fall asleep
The sound of the chimes blowing in the wind
Outside his bedroom window.
The thought of tomorrow darkened
His mood as he cursed his insomnia,
Begrudged the force’s power.
Had he not been sound of mind
He could have sworn a ghost
Was out there, tormenting.
Rattling its chains against the glass
In the hope that he might snap
And lose his grip on life.
He sedated himself with his pills
Blocked his hearing with his pillow
So they might cease to sound.
That noise, like a child with a triangle
The kid without a proper instrument
In the school orchestra.
There was no space for windchimes
In his life, no need for music’s song
In the middle of the night.

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Patron Saints by anne other-one

Hundreds of Kilometres to go
But I had to stop
To stare
Vast acres of peasant strips from
long ago
Formation dancing there

The goldenest gold
The poppiest red
the cornflowerest blue

Formation dancing rye and flowers
Take your partnes by the hand
doo be doo be boo doo
Trooting and twirling in this parched Polish flat land

I had to drop and dare
to steal an Armful
They've got plenty there
I put them on my Dashboard
These Patron Saints of Colour

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Mary Le Bone
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The Blue Penguin by Sammy-Sparkle

There is a blue, blue penguin
Who lives in Marylebone,
She used to be quite sanguine
Till she lost her saxophone.

The storm came at a bad time,
And blew it in the air...
It landed on the windchime,
Now she's pulling out her hair!

So if you see a very blue
Penguin up a ladder,
Don't shout at her, whate'er you do,
For that will make her sadder!

And still her singing echoes
Through the Marylebone night air
While the monkeys play pianos,
You will always hear her there...

"I want my...
I want my saxophone..."

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Marble Bone
Things That Go Thump In The Night
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Blue Sky by maipenrai

Blue Sky he said
BLUE SKY
I want Blue Sky thinking
so I thought of Krabi.

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By the same Poet
Blue is the Colour
Redemption Song
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Marlebone, Fishbone and Whisper by ochsterboxter

Marlebone, Fishbone and Whisper,
Such strange names for pets
Each name chosen at random
much like the animals themselves.
Marlebone, a dog of grey, weathered muzzle
appeared borne of dukedom or such.
His imperious stance belied his age
and his drunken gait.
Fishbone the fish, lived up to his name,
in that Whisper the cat did steal him from his bowl
and rendered him as such,
reduced was he, bereft of scale and fin
till nothing was left but his bones
and one bulging,terrified eye.
Whisper the cat was skelped justly for that
and stealthily did sneak out passed the garden gate
and out through the neighbour's field
never to be seen again,
excepting on late and darkened nights
when a whisper could be heard
and as the light of morning came over the hill,
a gift of dead mouse or bird would lie bleeding
beside the milkman's bottles.
Marlebone,Fishbone and Whisper,
such strange names for such strange pets.

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Marble Bone by Dan dee Lion

Pterodactyl - great marble-boned monster
Adroitly chipped from a cliff-face
Then hung from the beams of the museum
Like a giant air-fix model.

Did god create a more extraordinary beast?
Its grand design of wings,
Swooping ferocity.

The perfect blueprint for both fear and flight.
Schoolboys stare at it, in awe and wonder.

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Clicky-Ba by Ron

The air was blue
The sky was grey
And chanting fans
They had to stay.

Would they win
Or would the rain
Pour scorn on
Five days of pain?

Then up stepped Marlebone
Bold as brass
'Clicky-Ba' with a big fat ass
And made that day our own.

Windchime rhymed
And played a tune
On veranda porch
Where Selectors loomed

And all around the outfield pitch
Was heard the glorious sound of thump
Of leather knocked for six
By Clicky-Ba that great big lump.

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