Short Tam O Poems

Tam Pierce
a gray mare 
the circus-clowns' car
old uncle Tom Cobbley et al
going to Widecombe Faire...

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Tam catching air
Gust left me in a jam
Uncontrollable hair
My best lambs skin leather tam
In the bay it swam...

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Whose dog is it? Someone queried.
The rest of the neighbors laughed.
Look at his colorful tam
Look at his dreads
It is Marley’s dog
Or an impersonator, someone suggested...

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In Scotland the reindeer arrived at a canter
And Rudolph gave Santa some humorous banter
His outfit was red
But sat on his head
A bright ginger wig and an old Tam O’ Shanter



25 November 2022
Contest: A Funny Christmas Limerick
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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Our tam tams are vibrating
to the rhythm of the hunt.
Mighty bear is in the forest
showing his angst.

His claws are large
as the tips of our spears.
His teeth are as tips of arrows,
which fly to his fur.

Tam Tams are playing,
wounded bear is roaring.
Man outsmarts him with his tomahawk,
but no one conquers the circle of life....

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One  bonny day
I kilt me chicken,
Stirred eem inta me pot
For me soup to thicken.

I ate me some Haggis
An a scone or two,
After I kilt me cow
Ta make me stew.

Had ta put down me ol dog 
Cause he kilt me ol cat,
Then I dug heem a hole 
Way off in da back.

Den I picked up me pipes
And piped a sad lilt,
Wearing me ragged ol Tam
And me dusty ol kilt....

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PUT YOUR FOOTLE OUT YOUR MOUTH

Fred said
Fred read

Foot itch
Boot stitch

Toe jam
Bo Tam

Stinky socks
Tics-tocks

4 eyes
5 toes

Wear boots
Bare roots

Foot kiss
Root missed

Tasted like
Rusted bike

Walk miles
Talk trials

Said much
Lips touch

yakiti yak!
yakiti yak!

you've done 
too much

Fred said
Fred said

put your
foot out
your mouth???


3/2/18
Written Words by James Edward Lee ©2018...

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Au cœur de l’Afrique
Parlent les chutes d’eau
Comme les paroles de nos ancêtres.

Aux rythmes de nos tam-tam
T'els sont  les rythmes du songs,
Qui font chanter et danser la nature,

Aux pas de nos danses,
T'els sont les pas de danse de la nature
Qui font pousser les grains de chez nous,

Aux  goûts de ces grains
T'el est le goût du couscous
Qui fait notre joie et bonheur,

Ainsi parle la nature
Ainsi va la vie
Ainsi chante la nature....

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without a rocking-chair in sight
ol' Tam or Tom rules the roost
guarding henhouse since the fox lit out
and the door fell off its hinges

'n' all the hens cackle nervously about
wondering what tale to tell will
Felis catus softly howl tonight
to lull them nestling to defenseless

© Goode Guy 2013-08-05

for Marianne McKee's print
for the Charles Taylor Arts Center 
ekphrastic poetry event 2013-08-11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken...

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I shall never wear a tam-o-shanter in Scotland,
Yet I am satisfied for this is all right with me.
I shall never play my tambourine to a crowd of ten thousand,
Yet I am happy for this is all right with me.

An inkling of King Solomon’s wisdom tells me I will never see Saar,
Yet, I am satisfied, for who can see it on Pinterest? Me.
Eventually I will probably see all of this and more from a heavenly catbird seat.
And this is more than enough to make my heart happy....

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