Poems, Verses
Hi, I'm Jon Bratton. Welcome to my very verse-atile ditties - versus -poems website
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This website brings you the following free online verses, poems
Mens 18th,21st,30th,40th,50th,60th,70th,80th,90th,100th Birthday Verses, Poems
Womens 18th,21st,30th,40th,50th,60th,70th,80th,90th,100th Birthday Verses, Poems
Young Persons 18th,21st, Birthday Verses, Poems
Leaving Job, New Job, New Home, Retirement Verses, Poems
Congratulations Wedding / Sympathy Funeral Verses, Poems
FREE TO USE PROVISO
If you are a Crafter or Private Individual you are free to use these verses, poems and wordings, without asking permission...
These poems and verses are also free to Card Makers who sell cards on
a semi commercial basis (i.e. sales of not more than 50 cards per week)
but note copyright law applies to
* the body of work in parts and as a whole
* individual verses, poems so far as commercial companies are concerned
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I bring you greetings card and scrapbooking wishes, verses, poems, quotes, messages, wordings, sayings, text and greetings for, to and from mom or mum and dad, parents, fiance, fiancee, spouses, husband or wife, friends, grandma or nan and grandad or grandpa, brothers, sisters , children, grandchildren, best friend, mothers, sons or daughters. All are free, online and printable and all are funny tributes for birthdays, especially 18th, 21st, 30th, 40th, 50th. 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th, 100th, retirement, leaving a job , wedding, wedding anniversary, sympathy and Christmas
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In addition, you may care to view more verses, poems as follows
Love, Romance Verses, Poems, Free & Online with Imag-e-nation
Anniversary Verses Poems Free & Online with Imag-e-nation
Birthday Verses Poems Free & Online with Imag-e-nation
Sympathy Verses, Poems, Free & Online with Imag-e-nation
Wedding Verses, Poems, Free & Online with Imag-e-nation
For 35 years I've penned personalised verses poems for myself and others. Look at the bottom of this page if you want to know more background
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For verses poems and quotes in the
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These verses / poems are very specific to the people they were written for but people are people and there's a bit of everyone in all of us ( profound already) The verses / poems are untouched, straight out of the drawer, except that the names have been changed to protect the identity of the people involved. The pics are from the original first drafts and in some cases, the customer chose to use a photographic head
They are offered just as they are.The mens' birthday verses / poems section has many references to football fans, beer bellies, doing DIY (good or bad), going to the pub, falling asleep in the chair, snoring, being a kid at heart---so, thats almost every bloke on the planet--right girls?
Here's an example of a wedding anniversary poem, verse tribute to a married couple who spend a lot of time apart because he's away at sea
Rhonda and Charlie Tomkins
Have a marriage made in heaven
4 years they've been together
That's not bad...out of seven
The heart grows fonder, says Rhonda
And Charlie loves her piles
There's something special between 'em
....about 700 miles
For Charlie's a Masterseaman
(How's that for a bit of flattery)
While Rhonda works for Duracell
They're just an old salt and battery
Each fortnight they get together
A precious time... very dear
Cos the 'Italia' costs a fortune
For scran, wine and beer
When time it comes for Charles to leave
Of course he likes to dally
He makes a bee line for his favourite place
His own Rhonda Valley
We've tried hard to avoid the insults
We've managed, we think, to fail
Have a really smashin' Christmas
With love from Jim and Gail
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Here's another example of a retirement verse poem written for a retiring policeman, who was a keen runner, walker, gardener where 'his feet' was taken as the theme
You spent years as a bobby
Patrolling on the beat
Dishing out punishment..
...to your poor aching feet
You've done many a half marathon
Pounding along the street
You've walked miles round dale and mountain
We feel sorry for your feet
You're keen on growing spuds and things
Ankle deep in peat
Fair enough you're keen on vegetables
But think of your plates of meat
Sup beer, enjoy the grandkids
Give yourself a treat
Take advantage of your bus pass
Get slippers for your feet
Happy retirement Ernie
Your working life's complete
A career spanning 50 years
Now that's what we call a feat !!
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More on the background to this body of work
For a few years I produced these ditties professionally, along with Jim Harker, a talented artist. Together we produced Doodle Ditties. He did the doodle which was a caracature (the word "doodle" does not do justice to the cartoons Jim produced.) If you want to check out Jim's normal work click here I did the ditty which was usually 5 verses / poems or so based on what I was told of the "victim", The final product was a framed up gift. There's many a downstairs loo still sporting a framed up doodle ditty. That was back in the '90's and, ever since, the drafts of these verses / poems have lain forlone and unread in a desk drawer.So why dig 'em out now? Because there's been a huge growth in crafts, and card making in particular, and comments on the craft forums would suggest that there is a demand for a collection of card verses / poems. My desk drawer sprang to mind.
I wanted this site to be a Googlewhack and I came up with this
Bohemian Rhapsody is the song
His Majesty was always singing
Indeed, he became world renowned
For his very queenlike kinging
Now, did you know that although the words 'queenlike' and 'kinglike' are in the O.E.D. they are not acknowledged by Google
Nevertheless, if you put into Google the search words 'kinglike queening' you get 23 entries but if you put in 'queenlike kinging' you got none at all...what's that all about? Anyway now you get only this site....and that's a Googlewhack as far as I am concerned