Nonsense Poems

This poem is the kind of Poem I really enjoy. My granddad John Shipham used to teach this to me when we used to visit. It has stuck in my head and I remember him and them with affection. :)

Pictures: 

I went to the pictures tomorrow,

I took a front seat at the back, 

I fell from the pit to the gallery, 

and broke a front bone in my back. 

I went round a straight crooked corner, 

and saw a dead donkey die, 

I took out my pistol and stabbed him, 

and the bullet came out of his eye. 

Duel: 

Early this morning, late last night, 

two dead men got up to fight, 

back to back they faces each other,

drew their swords and shot each other.

Thames: 

Late last night, in the middle of the day, 

the Thames caught fire and the water ran away, 

the blind man saw it, a deaf man heard it, 

and the man with no legs went to fetch the fire engine, 

The fire engine came with two dead horses, 

run over a dead cat and nearly killed it.

  

Author's Note

There are other versions of these poems in the interweb, but this is how I remember them.

Reviews

[Allan W]

Wicked! I love fun poems like this - I think I will risk critiques and post one of my more fun one's! Thanks Allan.

[Allan]

Thanks Alan

[Alex Moondragon]

It's almost like a mixed reality with time travel ripping the guts out of the facts. A Schrodingers Cat type gaggle of poems. Nice... in a weird sort of way. AMD

[Allan]

Thanks Alex, missed you form the meets ;-)

[Alex Moondragon]

Hope to be at the next one.

[oxo]

wow, this is a great piece. :)

[Allan]

It's marvelous that someone can create such thought provoking rhymes Thanks :-)

[PP]

hahahaha!!!! It is hilarious !

[Allan]

Glad you enjoyed it :-)

[PP]

:)