Nursery Verse Poems

diddly dole
diddly dole
a goblin ate the custard
from the trifle bowl

diddly dole
diddly dole
another ate the jelly
and the trifle – stole!



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I wonder how addled your brain has to be
to want to suffer the slinging insults of buffoonery
Tv news showing how cartoonery 
reality has become

Each reporter...

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What you doin’ up there in that clock son?

      I ran up here to watch, mom.

Watch what, son?

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When rhymes are oddly forced
And there is no plausible pattern
Or hint of natural rhythm
I think “what was the point?”

A rhymed poem should pop like a...

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I could  be your clown
if you wanted me to be
tell you a joke on a rainy day
Id do anything for a laugh
Jump up and...

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Green Eggs and Ham
Bright is cleverer than smart
Take your time cosmic egg
Get there in this rhyme

Posses not my unconscious mind
Just like a seasoned ham

Essence of...

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From One Life to Another
 I watch as life falls from their eyes,
 A quiet departure, no goodbyes.
 The memories fade, the breath grows slow,
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Humpty Dumpty


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...

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Visions of Visions 

Far in the misty mountains they live,
Cloudy and lousy the skies are not limits as
Beyond they go Visions of Visions .
Deep in...

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In Autumn

In Autumn pumpkins hang out in 
hedge mazes, corn visits wreathes in
Finland, spices go to 
music festivals, photos of 
chestnuts do 
the splits, marsh...

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October  2051

Damali and  Desharah celebrated her birthday with Sedanah
Born on the same date one year apart. "Thank you both
And thanks Seda for being...

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Smelling
Woody, sweet, aroma
Christmas pine tree,
Weaved with Bright blinking lights,
Topped with a starlit top.

Feeling
The Brrr ... chill of the night air
Brrr ... freezing cold of the...

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Unitarian Church returnee

After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional 
almost three months 
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted 
beautician...

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...or Jack be walking funny for a while...

Jack was nimble,
And Jack was quick,
But he miscalculated
That candlestick.
It was skinny and tall,
He was thick and quite small.
When...

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I am a time traveler,
I travel incognito,
I am immortal,
Have traveled worldwide,
From the beginning of time,
So this is no nursery rhyme!
I see your planets devastation,
My...

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