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For P.D's "Going Haiku Crazy" Contest How Many? going to St. Ives met folks on that smelly bus more than I could count Just Sleep Walking? Wee Willy Winky caught outside a boy’s window in a night garment Got Wool? naked in the lane three bags-full of wool sheared off baa baa black sheep fleeced She Didn’t Know What to Do! Kids’ cries from inside - outside an old woman’s shoe child welfare people Clean Your Plate! Licking their plates clean Jack Sprat and wife do their part. . . kids starve in China The Treacherous Hill pail of spilled water Jill’s body sprawled over Jack’s one big bloody mess What a Ding Dong good deed for the day boy scout Tommy Stout by well. . . scratches on his arm Not Even a Bone old Mother Hubbard Social Security cut dog needs a new home Yellow Georgie victims of Porgie confront him in the playground his true color shows The Original Blonde Bo peep loses sheep birth of a new tradition. . . blonde jokes being told The Schemer some spilled curds and whey spider near a fallen chair supping happily Making the Best. . . Humpty takes a spill the whole army can’t fix him omelets for lunch Baby Catches On the church and steeple and now you show me people? those are just fingers! They Say He Couldn’t Keep Her! gossip in the town pumpkin shell big as a house. . where is Peter’s wife? Bye, Hushed Baby the sound of wind’s rush baby’s cries abruptly hushed broken branch on ground *I'm choosing this series of haiku for several reasons. First, it's the only post I made named "Twisted" so it is an obvious choice. Second, I do have other poems I consider a bit twisted, but, I simply cannot remember the titles of some of these really old poems to look for them. Finally, this series was inspired by a long ago contest of PD's in which I got the idea to take nursery rhymes and twist them, and so I'm reviving this series which can no longer be viewed by anybody here unless it's in a contest!
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