Wednesday, 15 June 2016

3 Poems

Early Space Travel

There was an old woman tossed up in a basket
Nineteen times as high as the moon;
Where she was going I couldn't but ask it,...
For in her hand she carried a broom.

Old woman, old woman, old woman, quoth I,
O whither, O whither, O whither so high,
To brush the cobwebs off the sky!
Shall I go with thee? Aye, by and by.

ANON


The Hiccup Fairy

'Twas the Hiccup Fairy,
That hiccetycupping blonde,
'Twas the Hiccup Fairy,...
Touched me (hiccup) with her wand,
So for every hiccup
I gave her a kick up -
She landed in Belchy Pond.


ADRIAN MITCHELL


A Farm Picture

Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,
A sunlit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding;
And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

WALT WHITMAN


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