Long Horner Poems

Poems about Children VI

Playmates
by Michael R. Burch

WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares of our indentured days
were uncomprehended . . . far, far...

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I was darting around...tweaking some price tags on pieces I’d had for too long…
Focused on items in little demand...and a few I’d picked up for a song…

When a middle-aged lady entered my shop...a woman I’d...

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Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse,
Ran up the clock,
But the crooked little man
In his crooked little house,
Who caught this crooked mouse
After Humpty Dumpty's fall,
Could not prevent the coming
Down of baby, cradle and all!
Now old Mother Hubbard,
Checked...

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ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL AND THE TRAMP

Thousands, perhaps millions of wily, desperate tramps have always been,
But this one far away across the seas was an unusual scene,
Lying on a slab of stone,
He had no existing home,
Thin,...

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HEY DIDDLE, why the Cat and the fiddle
And the Cow that jumped over the moon? 
Why they're all here in Nursery Rhyme land
At the wedding of the Dish and the Spoon.
The Little Dog is happy,The...

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Once upon a time, not too long ago
Children were safe wherever they go
Playing and skipping ‘til way after dark
Dancing and singing in the play park

Ring-a-ring-a-rosy
Where did she go, the girl with the posy?
Hush-a-push-a
Along came a...

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Life is not a nursery rhyme
Once upon a time, not too long ago
Children were safe wherever they go
Playing and skipping ‘til way after dark
Dancing and singing in the play park

Ring-a-ring-a-rosy
Where did she go, the girl...

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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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Miss Muffet sat upon a velvet stool
I know 'twas a tuffet; learned that in school
But Muffy was the tart
Who broke the spider's heart
I'm telling the story, so shut up, fool!

Humpty Dumpty had no wisdom at...

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I’m huddled up in my usual spot outside
Cold as a dog’s nose
On the old park bench, eating air pies
Drinking crushed sun, watching for a sign
Counting days, waiting for rain
There are signs everywhere, the crowd
In every...

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 The Devil Dances In Clawed Feet
         (A lively little jig too) 

I dreamed of darkness in a room round
there were in it boxes dark black.
Opening each...

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" oh-me-oh-my... paint in me eye!"

paint's in the pot...
oh she is hot...paint all over the room.....
paint on the floor...
right over the door....
she's painting the room with a broom!

paint in her hair...
paint on the chair...
paint on...

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The reindeer and Santa proceed at a canter
On a sleigh made of magical wood
They’ve gone to fill shelves with gifts made by elves
For all the kids that have been good

At home in the grotto, the...

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Some focus on hair, on legs, on muscles or on lips
   on feet, on shoulders, on arms or on hips

Yet though you may think it a bit odd or dumb
   my...

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                                  mary...

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A musing Mary, quite stationary
sitting with her laptop so still
thinks of limo cars, Broadway stars
and her dream house on the hill

Jill and Jack laid in their sack
wondering about Mary on their hill
making hay about "will...

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Mary had a little lamb that soon became someone's chops
That's a lie, a mouse never runs up a clock, only in the Boondocks
Little Miss Muffett sat on the Spider
Jack and Jill went up a hill,...

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Tom Thumb got caught peeping 
Now his life is on the run
Little Bo Peep lost her sheep 
On a gambling junket she was on 

Little Miss Muffet is having to tuff it 
Out these days...

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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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Come girls, come and experience my bona fide offer
A sister, a female cousin, even your over eighteen daughter
You must keep me entertained
I am your Lion that needs to be tamed
You can look at me as...

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Nursery rhymes in today’s times....
As seen through my eyes....
Go something like this...
With a brand new twist....
Little Jack Horner sat on a street corner....
Drinking from a paper bag....
And when he returned home from Viet-Nam....
All the government...

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Little miss muffet sat on her tuffet
Alone with no one to play
Along came a spider that hid just behind her
Keeping well clear of the fray
Little jack horner who lived round the corner
Heard an ear piercing...

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Fried chicken fingers, buffalo wings,
Chicken Little stared up at the sky.
One-eyed, one-horned, eating purple people,
Aren’t we glad that cows don’t fly?

Mother may I, hide ’n’ go seek;
A green light! Go, dog, go!
The owl and the...

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A little light entertainment on another wistful people distancing day...

The Owl and the Puddycat went to sleep
tucked up cosy and warm
Till Little Boy Blue come blasting his horn
causing a raucous storm 
The Cat and the...

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Look nuh, go from here - go, get out!
Before I give yuh a dam clout

Yuh so schupid yuh dam cunumunu:
Now doh ax meh anyting, I ain't yuh doo doo

Yuh jus like a cobo in de...

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