Silly Poems

An Eclectic Selection of Silly Poems


As performed in the summer of 2021 at Perranporth


Rap


Age


Orangutan


Vegetable Franglais


Darling



       Envy, jealousy, success and failure, the unfairness of life in general, and horticulture in particular. 


Have you got shallots?


I've been down the garden


Scabious (or, Shallots 2)


      Tourism ; It has to be admitted that with the current high profile of Cornwall in the media, this is a subject that is something of a soft target when it comes to satire :


Blutits


Hard Rock Mining


The Best Fish and Chips in Cornwall


Posh Tourist



I've been down the garden - again.



      Ageing has a lot in common with a game of musical chairs... it tends to be quite a lot of fun, until the music stops.. And we are long way out of guarantee. There is a rich vein of black humour to be mined here....


I am 'Supergeriatric'


An Ode to Breakfast


The 5-2 Diet


Burger Murder


Yet more lines about lipids...


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The Vegetarian


Bluetits 2


Homme 'Flu


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            One or two refections upon Childhood ......


Horsey


Bliss


We've been to the Seaside


The Tiger who came to her dinner party


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Hope Springs Maternal


I'm already missing Donald


              The Social observance and Personal experience section:


School Run


Acapella  paediatric rap


Walkers


The Consequenses of Vegetables


The toilets in Polzeath


A Large Sausage Roll


Majorca Walkers


The Story of Screechy Williams


The Volunteer


The Library Lady


This penultimate section is a humble homage to one or two of the Great Poets; and it begins a poem that seems to be a fusion of Willam Shakespeare with Contemporary Competitive Cookery


The Quality of Mercy


Honey - with passing apologies to Rupert Brooke..


Sir John Betjeman


The Vegan Poets



And lastly - Wildlife:


Honey Bees


Peacock Passion


Partridge


Constrictor


Marmoset


Camel


Crocodile


Ocelot


Sloth


       And there is just one last gentle dig at the brave bathing belles....


Ten Brave Ladies


Epilogue