This book of humorous poems has stayed close by my side all these years. I often share the poems with my friends when they come over and a small group of us can even recite some of them off by heart.......what joy this book have given us.
Here are 4 of my favourites:
NOOLIGAN
I'm a nooligan
don't give a toss
in our class
I'm the boss
(well, one of them)
I'm a nooligan
got a nard 'ead
step out of line
and you're dead
(well bleedin)
I'm a nooligan
I spray my name
all over town
footballs me game
(well, watchin)
I'm a nooligan
violence is fun
gonna be a nassassin
or a nired gun
(well, a soldier)
BUCKET
Every evening after tea
grandad would take his bucket for a walk.
An empty bucket
When I asked him why
he said because it was easier to carry
than a full one
granddad had
an answer
for everything
THE HARDEST THING TO DO IN THE WORLD
is stand in the hot sun
at the end of a long queue for ice creams
watching all the people who've just brought theirs
coming away from the queue
giving their ice creams their very first lick.
GRUESOME
I was sitting in the sitting room
toying with some toys
when from a door marked: 'GRUESOME'
There came a GRUESOME noise.
Cautiously I opened it
and there to my surprise
a litte GRUE lay sitting
with tears in its eyes.
'Oh little GRUE please tell me
what is it ails thee so?'
'Well I'm so small,' he sobbed,
'GRUESSES don't want to know'
'Exercises are the answer,
Each morning you must DO SOME'
He thanked me, smiled,
and do you know what?
The very next day he......
I took this photo at 'Sculpture by the Sea' last week, it evokes what a 'Nooligan' or a 'Gruesome' might look like!
