Spoke to a bloke
from Blighty
whose wife
wouldn't wear a nightie
when she rolled over
he told me
her ankles were tangled
then turned back
her throat strangled
all the more
'I can't retire' she sleepily said
so instead she wore
bloomers to bed
A naughty knight, his maiden sought,
Had high hopes they might tie the knot.
And though they ought, or so he thought,
’Twas all for naught, disaster-fraught,
Forgot how tied her nightie knots.
She, humored not, said Gute Nacht!
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Written on 03/01/2022
Marnie’s man was tall, hairy, and burly.
What he wore sometimes made her quite surly.
“Not the pink heels and nightie!
Why must you be so flighty?
Wear the black, and I like your hair curly!”
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August 28, 2020
entered in the Limerick Fun Poetry Contest
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I love my diaphanous nightie
It’s sexy and sheer- its quite flighty
But it’s a shocking disgrace
Scant material and lace
Cost hubby ninety-nine pounds ninety!
15th February 2015
Flimsy, flouncy little nightie
Which doth cling e'er so tightly
To your wibbly, wobbly ****
And your smelly hairy bits
Keeping all just out of sight
Through the hours of the night
Covering things so unsightly
Thank god for that little nightie
[written many, many years ago & inspired by a poem called something like "Dear Flo". Which I think was either by Spike Milligan or Peter Cook/Dudley Moore]
I was feeling fruity last night
But my wife wasn’t in the mood
She said she was too tired
For doing anything rude
But I was still feeling fruity
So I pleaded for her to succumb
Finally she said “ok”,
“Pull my nightie down when you’re done”
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