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Pea and Honey Recipes
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I Eat My Peas With Honey
And tales of derring-do.
Four lines, they can be rhyming
(That's Glow Worms to me and you).
Ending line is as usual.
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CdM
I wish that I'd known Sylvia Plath
Rosie
And what it was that depressed her
penelope
So lead her down
my
primrose path
Software
So maybe she would have felt much better
Chalky
I wish I was a messenger
Software
Telegram in hand
penelope
To warn of your investiture
Raak
As fairest in the land.
[pen] Well rhymed.
penelope
I wish I were a lightning bolt
[Raak] Ta. I had to 'do research'.
Bismarck
That lights the thunderhead
Software
I'd strike you where it hurts the most
Giertrud
When in your marriage-bed!
Kim
One really should be careful
Raak
When taunting grizzly bears
Rosie
Not to mention woodland
Software
Where it leaves its wares
Rosie
I'm glad I'm not a toothpick
penelope
A-poking tushypegs
Software
Getting chewed and rather slimy
penelope
A-poking round for dregs
That'll do.
Rosie
I wish I were a lumberjack
Shut up at the back.
Raak
That leapt from tree to tree
Software
I'd hold my chopper in my hand
Steady on ...
CdM
And wield it lustily
penelope
A lumberjack, or lumberjill
Raak
Which would I rather be?
Rosie
I'm lucky to have got the choice
Software
Fluid gender - that is me
Kim
I'm going on my holiday
Rosie
I'd better tell my boss
penelope
The whole team's coming with me
Software
'Cos they don't give a toss
Raak
I wish I were in Switzerland
Rosie
Where I've stashed my loot
CdM
Instead I'm stuck in Lichtenstein
Software
A tax haven too to boot
penelope
I'm just a gnome in Zurich
Raak
Amassing piles of gold
Software
Hiding it most secretly
penelope
Until this rhyme gets old
More than a week without a last line, folks. Time for it to go.
Software
It'll all be held in secret
Bismarck
Grey suits in smoke-filled rooms
Rosie
The guns are on the table
penelope
While they're eating magic 'shrooms
Mercy killing, innit.
Rosie
I wish I were an actor
Software
A star of the West End
Phil
I'd call myself 'Evadne'
penelope
Who's paid for 'Let's pretend'.
Bismarck
What is it about recent third lines that caused a promising start to peter out?
My recipe for Christmas cake
penelope
Is mostly stout and gin
Raak
The Christmas pudding that I'll make
Software
'll have none of the above in.
hic!
penelope
Some doggerel for Friday
Superman
Is what we chiefly need
Software
To help forget the current mess
Bismarck
Let good times be decreed! .
KagomeShuko
A frog is in my pocket
Giertrud
And out it wants to leap
gil
I'm tempted just to lock it
Phil
Up tightly in The Keep
Software
Neat
Software
What I
really
want for Christmas
Rosie
Would tell you quite a lot
penelope
About the piss-poor State of Things
Bismarck
That pertain in Camelot!
Raak
I wish I'd reached enlightenment
Phil
Before I bought that drink
Rosie
Such clarity of thought has gone
Superman
That Nirvana's on the blink.
penelope
I wish I'd bought some fishing line
Software
Because now I cannot cast
Raak
To catch these drones that spy on me
gil
(I wish I hadn't asked.)
Software
If I'd been born a reindeer
Rosie
I'd fear all polar bears
and covalent ones
Phil
But since I am a penguin
gil
I know them bears ain't there
Bismarck
Dawn came up like thunder
Raak
Noon brought raging sun
Rosie
The sky was rent asunder
Giertrud
By an angry Kim Jong Un.
Phil
I wish that I liked Christmas
Rosie
But I'm a grouchy sod
penelope
Who waits til it's all over
Software
Proclaiming "Oh, thank God"
penelope
I wish than I liked whisky
*hypothetically obvs*
Rosie
'Cos I've got twenty litres
Software
I'm told it makes one frisky
penelope
But I like margaritas
Chalky
I have no favourite cocktail
Raak
I'll drink just anything
Rosie
Pass the paraffin, say I
Software
To me it tastes like gin
Bismarck
Now Hogmanay is ending
Software
The Haggis will get stale
Superman
So Burns' Night was invented
penelope
To use up cakes and ale
Rosie
I wish I were a porcupine
Software
Tho' I'd still be just as spiky
penelope
Cos unable to recline supine
penelope
Would lose you sleep, by crikey!
You do it next time then!
Superman
The boy stood on the burning deck
time for an old traditional
Software
There was panic all around
Kim
The hairs were signed around his neck
this one might run for a few verses
Raak
But still he stood his ground.
Kim
He shouted to the Captain,
Rosie
My smartphone's up the spout
Software
But the Captain didn't give a toss
Raak
He'd already gotten out.
penelope
I don't need much for dinner
Kim
A loaf of bread will do
Raak
And just a little caviar
Rosie
You know, that fishy goo.
Software
I wish I'd been a buccaneer
penelope
Sacking galleons and cities
Superman
An enterprising privateer
Rosie
Saying "Ha-harrr" and whistling ditties.
penelope
The Budget sets our spending
Rosie
Unless we're rolling in it
innit?
Software
It is sure to increase lending
Kim
By 14p a minute.
penelope
If I were riding on a train
Rosie
That called at Clapham Junction
Kim
Onto the tracks below I'd drain
Knobbly
My bowels, without compunction.
pretty much oblig.
Kim
[Knobbly] I suspect that you, me and Rosie were probably
ad idem
on that one. Not sure about pen.
Simons Mith
I let out such a holler
Raak
That it woke th'Antipodes
Rosie
I'd lost my final dollar
Simons Mith
To arbitration fees
Software
I wish I had a hobby horse
Bismarck
That I could ride around on;
Kim
One I had purchased second-hand
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