Topic: Once upon a time... (The Poem Thread)

There once was a man with a beard.
who said "it's just as I feared!".
"Two owls and a hen,
four larks and a wren,
have all built their nest in my beard!"

lol and... WTF?

I had to read that poem, in the style of a news reporter, for my first ever drama audition. Stuck with me ever since.

Apparently, it's based on a true story!

Here's my favourite poem:
On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

It's the only poem that ever made sense to me.

Hah. I only created this as a test topic - didn't realise it would still be up on launch.

Oh well, I suppose it can be the Poem Thread henceforth!

I won a poetry contest last year and my work got published.
And yes, I do write/compose poetry.

My favorite poems are both by Private S. Baldrick, serving in the first World War.

THE GERMAN GUNS
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,
Boom, Boom, Boom

UNTITLED
Hear the words I sing,
War's a horrid thing,
So I sing sing sing...
...ding-a-ling-a-ling.

Wow, I laughed so much upon (finally) reading your post, Brutus. Has he got a book of them somewhere?

There once was a man from Nantucket,
Whose d*** was so long he could...

Wait, maybe that one isn't fitting for this site.

Here we go, life, summed up in three lines.

Soaring Bird

A bird soaring high in the sky
As soon as i i look in the sky
it craps in my eye……

Now thats art man.

Ha ha, is that Blackadder??

Boom boom boom?

How did you know sir?!

There was a old man from china
Who wasn't a very good climber
He slipped on a rock
Cut off his ....
And now he's got a ......

Arty farty had a party all the farts were there,
Tooty fruity did a beauty and they all went out for air.