diddly dole
diddly dole
a goblin ate the custard
from the trifle bowl
diddly dole
diddly dole
another ate the jelly
and the trifle – stole!
Categories:
diddly, cool, crazy, food, fun,
Form: Light Verse
dodoitsu diddly-do
dizzy dancing, romancing
pecking and a chicken wing
phat feathers flapping
Categories:
diddly, silly,
Form: Dodoitsu
"my heart's keeping a Bo Diddley beat"
looking back at
yesterday now
i've got a back
brace like training
bra in place
and a lumbar
belt round my
waist as i
seem
to be
wasting
away
in
my
old
age
but at the very
least i can
say i can get
out my guitar
and play
just like
yesterday
and do that
hip
shake
thang
Categories:
diddly, color,
Form: Free verse
Diddly Squat ain’t ‘not a lot’ for it’s nothing at all
Not a few, nor one or two, and it won’t fill a hall
For diddly squat ain't half a pot
It’s like the muse I’ve got
For diddly squat is ‘out of stock’, nada and sod all
16 July 2021
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
For contest: Bitesize poem number 13
Categories:
diddly, angst, poetry,
Form: Limerick
I know you think that you will never perish
while you bridge our bodies we go feverish
I watch you dance like a dancing dervish
cross skull bone of doom I wish you'd perish
and go away from us you slippery fish
Be still and know that I am not your kind
I have dreams that will not hold behind
You're a distraction to my peaceful mind
and you are driving me, out of my mind;
Take the flat curve in, pay your hefty debt
and let us live without your constant threat
Just leave and we'll be glad we never met
Diddly dee and didly daw your not welcome
for you march to the beat of a different drum
why dont' you do us a favor and die ...
I know you think that you will never perish
but sooner or later we will find our cure
then we can sleep soundly and live again
and you won't be our last refracted breath
now go away from here , cuz you ain't cool.
April 8, 2020
Categories:
diddly, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
(giggly apologies to Bo Diddly and Buddy Holly)
I'm tellin' you how it's gonna be
You gonna play tiddlywinks with me
Tiddle forever and one day
Winks are winks and so they'll stay
Hey, hey hey Mona, Mona, oh Mona.
I'm gonna buy you a tiddlin' game
You gonna buy me the very same
Watch as we go tiddly hop
Keep on playin', never stop
Hey, hey hey Mona, Mona, oh Mona.
Categories:
diddly, fun, funny, games, love,
Form: Lyric
People often ask me
What it is I've got
That makes me so happy
When clearly others aren't
Then they tend to wonder
If I'm putting on a front
But when you want for nothing
There's nothing that you want
Where everything I own and need
Could fit in a paper bag
Again there's nothing that I want
That I do not have
Which keeps it rather simple
Where no battles need be fought
When all I want or even own
Is nothing but Diddly Squat
There's a certain amount of freedom
That can't be denied
When everything you own in life
You carry by your side
And if by chance you lose it
It's not a case of do or die
Because the little stuff's not worth sweating
In the larger scope of life
With nothing here to cling to
But me, myself, and I
And a few essentials
I keep by my side
All I bring to the party
Is me, I'm the entire lot
Easy said and easy done
With nothing but Diddly Squat
Categories:
diddly, fun, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
When Diddly Diddly Do
Met Diddly Diddly Don't
They both knew the Diddly truth
They Diddly Diddly won't
After they went out on Diddly town
Making a few Diddly rounds
You should have heard the Diddly sounds
As the Diddly Diddly all went down
Diddly Diddly Do
And Diddly Diddly Don't
Wonder what's the Diddly point
Whether they will or whether they won't
Diddly do or Diddly don't
Diddly stay or Diddly jump
Will they come out to play
On any given Diddly day
Who's to know and who's to say
If the Diddly Diddly gets in the way
I am thinking Diddly not
Diddly borrowed or Diddly bought
Diddly given or Diddly caught
They don't give a Diddly Squat
Categories:
diddly, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Funny talk... "diddly squat"
Means basically nothing to me!
Where do these words come from?
Do they grow these things on trees?
What a joke... "a pig in a poke"
Fooled unsuspecting buyers!
Instead of a piggy inside the bag
Twas a kitty cat for the fryer!
But of course... "hay's for horses"
Here's another reason to spend?
Some stuffing for your Jockeys
To give you a fuller front end!
Just my luck... "I'm a dead duck"
She caught me with this lady!
Not to worry, it all turned out
Twas Mom so nothing shady!
Whadya think... "Take forty winks"
Causes trouble with wifey poo!
Of course if you wink at a filly
And the filly winks back at you!
It's really absurd... these silly words
They upset our daily routine!
They've been known to turn sunny days
To the ugliest days ever seen!
© Jack Ellison 2013
Categories:
diddly, funny,
Form: Quatrain
the saddest thought -
to have lived for naught
Categories:
diddly, life,
Form: Epigram