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COUPLES ?
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Duos? Duets? Pairs? Couples? The PIC? Oh, Lots & Lots & LOTS of COUPLES!

COUPLES ? © - Tom Hyland - 1/31/12 Once upon a Time ... There was Adam & Eve. They Bit the Apple ... Later, Did Grieve! Next, Came Cain & Abel ... First Brothers to Fight - One Zapped the Other ... Like a Thief in the Night! Abraham, or Abram, Married his Half-Sister, Sarah ... From them Came Isaac, then his Wife, Rebekah - Two Sons they Produced, Esau - then Jacob ... Who Stole Esau’s Birth-Right - What the Heck-A! First ‘Con-Artist’ from Our ‘Family Tree’ To This Day - Descendents Still Fight ... Insanity Runs Rampant ... “Oh, Say, Can You See?” Years Later, Came Moses & Brother Aaron ... Tablets of Stone & Idol Baal - Broken Commandment ... Israelites Worshipped a Cow! Footnote: Must enter Here, or be Remiss ... ‘Second Set’ was ‘First Edit’ - Original ‘TEN’ = ‘First List’! Skipping Down, Quite a Bit ... We have Samson & Delilah, Who Cut Off his Hair ... Removed his Strength, without a Care! David & Goliath, not Really a Couple ... The ‘Wee One’ Slew The ‘Giant’ - Did It - Quite Alone ... He was the Victor - with a Sling & a Stone! Centuries Passed, Things got Quite ‘Hairy’ When Joseph was Betrothed to the ‘Virgin Mary!’ Along Came Jesus & ‘The Holy Ghost’ ... ‘The Holy Trinity’ - With GOD On High - Surely The Most! Sometime Before - As we ‘Back-Track’ a Bit ... Was Julius The Caesar & Cleopatra - Who Gave him a Fit ... She was a ‘Doozy’ - Pretty, with Wit! After ‘Caesar’ Experienced the ‘Ides of March’ ... ‘Twas Then - Antony & Cleo - Both ‘Full of Starch’! We Passed Over Many Ancient Greeks, Like Hera & Zeus - And Counter-Part Romans, Juno & Jupiter - Quite ‘Footloose’ ... As we End this Attempt at Eloquence ... One More Couple We Just Must Name ... Romeo & Juliet ... Hence ... Of Shakespearian Tragedy Fame! © - TKH.

Reviewed by Chip Bergeron

Reviewed on March 6, 2012

Excellent tiptoe through the historical tulips. I didn't realize you were such a Bible scholar.

Chip Bergeron

Reviewed by Regis Auffray

Reviewed on February 6, 2012

Cleverly concocted and expressed as usual, Tom. You do not disappoint. Thanks for the smiles. Love and peace and best wishes to you,

Regis

Reviewed by Mary Lacey Desertrat

Reviewed on February 2, 2012

Tom,

I loved it! The summing up of the Bible in a poem, along with other bits of history and literature. Very well written.

Mary

Reviewed by Mr. Ed

Reviewed on February 1, 2012

And what about another famous odd couple.
Old Sir Wuss-A-Lot and Old Sir Cur Tomkat;
The Abbott and Costello of today’s modern era,
Constantly embroiled in some old Ed Family spat.

Reviewed by Ed Matlack

Reviewed on January 31, 2012

Is this all from memory as you are such an OLD soul...Jurseeeeeeeeey

Reviewed by Patrick Granfors

I'm having a couple of beers while I ponder this.....hey wait. Are you punning us?

He was the Victor - with a Sling & a Stone!

Yes he was as I recall, a black and white Victor Mature. Correct me if I'm wrong, might have been Samson...or both. (a couple?)

Cuz p