====== Wyn Roth's short poems. ======

===== Steam Boat =====

  * I wonder what the fishes think, 
  * Of oily smoke and greasy stink?
  * I wonder what the boilers burn,
  * As they make the big wheel turn?
  * Does it feed on coal or wood?
  * Laying waste where trees once stood?
  * It speeds our travel to the west,
  * But is it really for the best?


A fantasy (pathfinder) bard, travelling on a Gnomish steam powered paddle boat.  It is very, very experimental and, perhaps, the first of its kind ...
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===== Veronica =====

  * The woman they all call Veronica
  * Learned how to play the harmonica
  * Then one fateful day
  * She blew the wrong way
  * And became a music phenomena.


A short poem, as we tried to work out what we knew about a woman called Veronica.  It turned out that we knew nothing at all.
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===== One for Claire =====

  * Doodle doodle doo,
  * The Princess lost her shoe.
  * Her Highness hopped,
  * The fiddler stopped,
  * Not knowing what to do.

Claire (AKA the DM)  wrote a second verse ...

  * A kick in the bum,
  * From the clumsy one.
  * The other shoe got stuck,
  * So she gave it a pluck,
  * Oh, a princess's sense of fun.

... and Wyn replied  ...

  * The princess's shoe,
  * from her hand flew,
  * striking the oaf,
  * on his noggin-loaf,
  * before she walked off in a stew!

Once again, Claire replied ...

  * The oaf became mad,
  * A bit more than a tad.
  * He boiled some water,
  * Until it got hotter,
  * then princess meat stews what he had.

Just simple nonsense verses to amuse a child/woman Wyn was friends with.

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===== Biscuits =====

And this one is By Poppy Pleasance - a Young Gnome who plays the washboard and clog dances.
 
  * Tea, Tea, marvellous tea,
  * there's nothing quite like it
  * in good company.
  * So please take a biscuit,
  * the waistline can risk it,
  * So please take a biscuit
  * to have with your tea.