Long Bad egg Poems

An Echo Poem

Original: If I Kissed It - Poem by Brian Johnston

If I kissed it, would that make it better? 
Are you needing much more than a friend? 
Would it help if I held you...

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CHAPTER ONE

They closed the county zoo for it was sick financially
They thought they’d take the creatures to their homes across the sea
The Silverback Gorilla soon in Africa would be
And then they’d go to Asia where...

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“Well we shall have to do our best and 'keep on smiling'” said Dumpty to the Owl, who he was worried could possibly get into a' flap' after all it had heard. “Yes it never...

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Within the repetition of the mundane, disguised by delusions and aspirations of grandeur, we struggle to find a purpose which can guide us to a higher level of happiness and self worth. We seek to...

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Goodness me, fiddle dee dee and la de dah
Mary turned into a black sheep, baa baa baa
That naughty little lamb
Has contrived a big scam
She's gone too far astray and has lost her way

Mary's been tinkering...

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"Grenades"

When Humpty fell off the wall
she stood over the mess
that bad egg left
like a marauding architect 
she was holding two pistols
the smoking guns 
of a life peripheral 
stitched up surreal
where the heart
sits in the middle
like...

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Here I rise... Surrounded by souls but still all alone
Born just ramble and bound just to roam
Nothingness is my name and nowhere is my home

Here I rise...Like silver moons down the golden slots
So synthetic and...

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I’ve heard people say dinosaurs are extinct
But I think there must be a resurgence!
It seems that our scientists all must have blinked,
Could it be just a bad egg emergence?

Imagine eggs dormant for thousands of years,
Now...

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So, I’m the last survivor of a breed that ruled the world!
Brrr! It’s getting mighty cold.
I suppose we can’t complain though. Our innings was quitre long.
Brrrr! It’s getting mighty cold.
When I was just a nipper...

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So, I’m the last survivor of a breed that ruled the world!
Brrr! It’s getting mighty cold.
I suppose we can’t complain though. Our innings was quite long.
Brrrr! It’s getting mighty cold.
When I was just a nipper...

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DAGGER IN THE HEARTH
Each time I try to say, “The country isn’t good”
Even as a secondary school pupil
I can’t remember the last I obeyed the iota rule
Even dough I know my parents builds castles in...

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Now that the Owl was sleeping Dumpty felt a bit restless, which was hardly surprising considering he was a ghost, he wandered over again to the waters edge, and had a look at the large...

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I was leanin' on the fence slurpin' a mug o' joe,
Admirin' my neighbor's garden and watchin' Harry hoe.
"Harry, Harry", I asked, "What makes yer garden grow?"
"I spread oodles of fecal matter on each and ever'...

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The rotting of a socialist


I knew of a young man a rebel who wanted
his country to adopt the Scandinavian model of socialism.
He was elected to great acclaim by the people,
to do what he wanted taxes...

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Grey clumper
Our old grey clumper horse,
 bit by brown snake, bad egg,
The horse stood on him, snake struck a leg,
Grey had him pinned, stomped snake to death,
Both died, horse fell on the snake inept,
(clumpers are...

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Tis better

2

Block , Ignore

Or

2

Send them 

Tail firmly betwixt 

Scuttling back under

The ROCK they come

And hide beneath

Until it both

Crushes and caves in on them

And they suffocate slowly on

Heaven forbid

Under the weight of there own
Bile and Hate

And...

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I am feeling no worth
I may even be less
Try enjoy in the mirth
Have to clean up the mess

Wish I was better
And to know that I am
Be rid of the debtor
Its really a scam

If I can...

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Think I need a cowboy
With some fat free ranch
Think I’d like to see him
Swinging from a branch 
Reaching out towards me
To get all my attention 
Think I need a cowboy
Thought I would just mention
Think I...

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I “Go on Account” when I’m feeling dull,
Fly a Jolly Roger with crossbones and skull;

Become a “Freebooter” and Pillage and Loot,
Where I can do as I please, drink and shoot;

On most days a “Landlubber” I...

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