You Set My Flue On Fire
You are smoking hot
You have built up my
Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Inside my heart
Igniting these feelings
I can’t cool them down
I have called 911 they can’t help
The fire department
Doesn’t have enough water
The paramedics can’t slow this beat down
My heart has been beating to fast
Twice as fast since I have seen you
Please stop this vibrating and pounding
I can’t take much
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Categories:
flue, desire, dream,
Form: Free verse
I Will Sweep Your Flue
Come live with me and be my sweetheart now
I’ll share my only bed with you and how!
If you let me love you
I’ll darn your old wool gloves 4 you
If you come and meet me brow to brow.
Come live with me ‘n teach me all you know
About poetic licence and Defoe.
I’ll mend your vacuum cleaner,
Learn
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Categories:
flue, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
The Lover of Fair Elaine Ballad Based On Flue Epidemic of 1917
THE FAIR ELAINE
My mother had an uncle, Hayes,
Who loved the banker's child
Hayes was just a dray man
It made the banker wild
When Hayes proposed to fair Elaine
He asked for her sweet hand
Her father said that he’d agree
If Hayes could buy some land.
So off Hayes went
To make his stake
He traveled night and day
Until he found a
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Categories:
flue, love,
Form: Ballad
The Swine Flue Poem
I am called THE FLU
I came with those who flew
I have barely touched a few
And many are still Due
No body has any Clue
Of how to Subdue
If I am not there in YOU
It's just that you are in a Queue
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Categories:
flue, health
Form: Rhyme
Swine Flue Ca Choo
The TV’s raving the Mexicana flew choo
The trains gathering a head chaaaaaaa chooo.
The government needs a new control to
stop the immigrations flow to…..
It’s amazing the lengths I think they’ll go to
The trains gathering a head chaaaaaaa chooo
Body aches are screaming too
perhaps, I have the swine flu too?
Population was exploding
those undesirables were imploding
Firesign Theatre* did
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Categories:
flue, education, natural disasters, political
Form: Rhyme