Poetry Corner

[twistedhicap]

There was an old man from Brazil

who swallowed a dynamite pill

His Heart retired

His bum backfired

And his willie shot over the hill

[Shane]

I went past a certain drive-in restaurant today and was inspired (if only) to put pen to paper.

 

....

Each spring I stretch and taller grow

And smile on passers by below

The summer sun, I keep at bay

While all around the children play

 

Then as the Autumn gales draw near

They take my fruit for another year

Ice and snow as nights are longer

Energy saved, next year stronger

 

As years go by the grass I knew

Grows smaller, roads and buildings new

The space below, the games, the fun

Now being squeezed, what have they done?

 

Alas years later, no silent night

Right under me a neon light

A yellow M, a queue of cars

They’ve made my park a burger bar

 

The fruit I give just gets ignored

If it can’t be smoked they just get bored

Late at night, automotive tricks

Driven by fools and cheered by their chicks

 

 

 

My thirsty roots compressed by the paving

I just make a mess, dirty cars, they are raving

That tree shouldn’t be there, it really should go

But we can’t remove it, there’s a TPO

 

The leaves look wrong, and they cut out the light

It must be dying, removal is right

What if a piece was to fall on my head

Without a doubt I’d end up dead

 

Then a young fool, no skill – but power

The base of my trunk, where his mum put flowers

Such loss of life, such tragedy

All because of that damned tree.

 

In the end the planners had to agree

Time was up for that dangerous tree

The final solution, tidy and neat

No more mess, just smooth concrete

[sandspider]

That's rather good. Sad state of our times, but good.

[sloth]

That's rather good. Sad state of our times, but good.

 

Agreed

[the village idiot]

A Silky Future

 

There once was a chappy named Paul

Who set up his own climbing school

They flocked from afar

On foot and by car

To attend the best college of all.

 

Said Silky "Now you all watch me

This is how you dismantle a tree.

You cut, chop and lop

From bottom to top

And take all the logs home for free."

 

Paul saved up many a dime

By teaching these people to climb.

But the best thing of all

Is that our friend Paul

Became the happiest bloke of all time.

[Nick B]

That's very good Shane well thought out and sad but very true.

TVI a Silky future is also very good.

[silky fox]

Thanks for that TVI:) shall have to create one for thy good self. Shall pen one and return! Now,where's my quil?

[sloth]

How about Haikus?

 

 

The glorious gold.

The soft rustle of many.

The start of autumn.

[the village idiot]

A chap we all know, 'billyhilly'

Got teased as his name was so silly

The long years of taunting

He found rather daunting

So exchanged for a much better Willy

[MGSLandscape]

If you catch a Chinchilla in Chile

And cut off its beard, willy-nilly

You can honestly say

That you have just made

A Chilean Chinchilla's chin chilly.