Nursery Verse Poems

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...

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Automobile industry

At the seaside, the water signaled many colors
pale sober gin, dark hue, then bottle green and pink like a nursery rhyme
no one took notice...

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"Tom, Tom the piper's son
Stole a pig and away he run.
The pig was eat,
And Tom was beat,
And Tom went crying down the street."

Now, this rhyme,
For...

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My little face says it all
Adults think they know it all
When they don't know a thing 
It can be hard sometimes to be a baby
One...

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...or It's good to be the king!

What was't made King Cole
Such a merry old soul
As he sucked on his pipe,
And he supped from his bowl,
And...

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 - the rest of the story for Hickory Dickory Dock -

Hickory dickory dock,
The mouse wound the clock,
At half past twelve
The clock said it was...

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Tucked in a keepsake box,  
A lace linen napkin 
Holds in its gentle fold,  
A tiny stick.
 
I recall the moment 
My love...

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The story of Bambi and his delightful friends Thumper, the rabbit, and Flower,
the skunk, his mother and father, The Great Prince of the Forest...

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An itsy bitsy spider
Is waiting for the rain
To drip its final droplets down
So she can weave her web again.
Next time she'll choose a better spot
Than...

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In the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty 
who or what he represents is still a mystery.
Some think he may in fact have been an egg
though this...

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They were one pulsar away
From obliterating all of humanity.

I had eight armed and activated lasers
Attached to my cobalt helmet,
Augmented as it was,
With enough meta-metal
To take...

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When Old Mother Hubbard
Examined her cupboard
And found not a scrap there to munch on,
Not one morsel that clung
To an ort or a crumb,
She felt foolish...

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The rhyme "Hey diddle diddle"
For me poses a riddle:
What possible need
Has a cat for a fiddle?
A cow might jump over the moon,
So I'm told,
If a...

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The world was so very young,
you could sing it nursery rhymes,
and the sky would bend to your lips
to kiss them.

We had a rented room.

London was...

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The thing about Mary that was extraordinary 
Was her parents on her pulled a fast one.
They gave her a first name, multiplied it by two,
But...

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