Short Neighed Poems

Grandma Gertie knocked back more than a few
When, of a sudden, she heard herself 'moo' --
   I can hold my liquor!
   She burped, and then snickered --
She 'neighed' ~ Off to the factory for glue...

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I sat on the back of a burro
          The little fella brayed

        Then I tried a quarter-horse
          The big guy neighed

        Did I mention we were on the moon
          Thought I was a jockey for a day...

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Headless horseman came in the dead of night, but he made no sound.
His stallion did though – it neighed and whinnied and twirled around.
You must have been in Sleepy Hollow a relative said.
He is more unimaginative than a skeleton dead....

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Old MacDonald had a farm
With some noisy critters on it.
They mostly mooed, or neighed,
Or clucked, or brayed,
But some stayed
Resolutely mute,
I'm afraid.
It wasn't his equines,
Or bovines,
Or fowls,
Or anything lodged in his barns or corrals,
But a couple of rather recalcitrant vowels.
The "e" and the "i" and the "o"
Answered the call,
While the "a" and the "u"
Stayed conspicuously AWOL.
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There was a boy 
Named Rancho Roy
He had a horse 
Whose name was Force
They loved to ride 
Out far and wide 
Force used to take 
Him to the lake
Where he sat long 
And wrote a song 
Called "Rider's Hill -
Ride to your fill"
When they came back 
He had a snack -
Fresh cake and tea 
And cream cookie
Force his hay ate 
Happily neighed
Rancho took rest
His life was best



04.21.2021



For Eve Roper's "Nursery Rhyme 5" contest...

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