Post my favourite nonsense poems

L O L O A Q I C

I 8 2 Q B 4 I P

(clue – say it out loud…)

Not nonsense but amusing – need to set myself the goal of memorising this – just for the hell of it….

Willie Willie Harry Stee
Harry Dick John Harry three;
One two three Neds, Richard two
Harrys four five six….then who?
Edwards four five, Dick the bad,
Harrys (twain), Ned six (the lad);
Mary, Bessie, James you ken,
Then Charlie, Charlie, James again…
Will and Mary, Anna Gloria,
Georges four, Will four Victoria;
Edward seven next, and then
Came George the fifth in nineteen ten;
Ned the eighth soon abdicated
Then George six was coronated;
After which Elizabeth
And that’s all folks until her death.

Today I saw a little worm
Wriggling on his belly.
Perhaps he’d like to come inside
And see whats on the telly

Spike Milligan

From Sydney Zoo
An Alligator
Was put on board
A flying freighter.

He ate the pilot
And the navigator
Then asked for more,
With mashed potater.

Spike Milligan

The glances over cocktails
That seemed to be so sweet
Don’t seem quite so amorous
Over the Shredded Wheat

Anon

Der spring is sprung,
Der grass is riz.
I vonder vere dem boidies is?
Der little boids is on der ving.
Ain’t dat absoid?
Der little ving is on der boid!

Anon

The bees
Sneeze and wheeze
Scraping pollen and honey
From the lime trees:

The ants
Hurries and pants
Storing up everything
They wants:

But the flies
Is wise
When the cold weather comes
They dies.

LWG

What a wonderful bird is the Pelican,
Whose beak can hold more than it’s belly can.
It can hold in its beak, enough food for a week-
But I’m darned if I see how the Hell-i-can!

Anon

(my gran used to tell me this one)

OK so bugged myself now and had to download a latin translator to see if the poem had any meaning – it came up with:

The courtesy, if therefore,
Chance you are the master,
Gnoses the sea, to Theb wild.
The prophets the in?
Causan the leader!

Expect it does but needs some jiggling. Will keep searching – and of course should anyone be fluent in Latin please do enlighten me!

(A toughie – clue again has to be said out loud! Can translate if required!)

Civile, si ergo,
Fortibus es in ero,
Gnoses mare, Thebe trux.
Vatis inem?
Causan dux!

Anon