I’m being shrilly
Because silly Billy
Dilly-dallied
With Tilly’s chili,
Then willy-nilly
Forgot the
corsage lily
For the dance,
Now no chance
For silly Billy
To twilly-twilly
Piccadilly with me!
I Must've Cared
For My Soul
Near As Careless
As My Teeth.
-Gray Squirrel
10-16-2025
Silly Billy went and ate
all the cookies his mom baked.
Getting too sick was his fate
for his tummy ached and ached.
You might think this silly guy
would have learned his lesson, right?
When his mother made a pie,
it then disappeared from sight.
Billy, like a big fat hog -
He had gobbled it all down!
He got sicker than a dog.
Mention pies, and still he’ll frown.
April 11, 2021
for Eve Roper's Nursery Rhyme 4 Poetry Contest
There was a shy man named Billy
Who liked a pretty young filly
He asked her out one day
The filly said nay
Because she thought his goatee looked silly
The dark winter night was so chilly
So Viv downed some shots which was silly,
Then while driving on top
He was stopped by a cop.
When asked for his name he said Billy!
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Contest: No 208 ~ Any Form
Sponsor: Brian Strand
About six degrees of silly
Best describes my friend Billy,
Butters both sides of his bread,
Eats ice-cream standing on his head,
Walks backwards when it's hilly.
He embarrasses me all round town
With silly noises and faking frown,
He scares people in the park,
Jumping out of trees when it's dark,
Billy's such a hopeless clown.
sloth Silly Billy
married a pregnant lady
went to sleep and snort
Silly Billy doesn’t think quit straight
Dropped on his head as a child by mistake
Sometimes he drools, stinks, and is late
Sometimes he sits quietly waiting for cake
But each quiet night upon his knees
Silly Billy clasps his hands and bows with ease
Father- oh Father- my heart’s full of thee
Thankful to you what you have given me
I tiptoed past the medicine cabinet
So as not to wake the sleeping pills
I looked at worms with a magnifying glass
But could not tell the difference between boys and girls
I looked for the corner in a round room
For about fifteen hours
I peed outside into a stiff wind
And was baptized with a shower
I threw my clock out of the window
To see if time really does fly
I could not balance my checkbook
Though I gave it a really good try
I do not look into the refrigerator
Because the mayonnaise is dressing
How much wood a woodchuck can chuck
I try to keep on guessing
I am the Silly Billy
The composite of simple folk
Laughed at by everybody
As the butt of my childhood jokes
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