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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
That others wish upon
Rosie
But if I land in your back yard
Software
You'll see that's just a con
Rosie
I wish I were a tea-bag
Software
Gently brewing in a pot
irach
Unmindful of the scalding
Juxtapose
Surroundings that I've got
irach
If I could walk a silly walk
Rosie
I'd join the Ministree
Simons Mith
I'd hop and lurch and high-kick twice
Juxtapose
And still not spill my tea
Kim
I'm glad I'm not a pollster
Rosie
Like Gallop, YouGov, Mori
Software
My prediction would be iffy
penelope
And punters would be sorry
Juxtapose
I wish I was a baritone
Rosie
Unlike say, Elton John
Software
Then I'd
seem
more manly
Kim
When taking on the
Don
irach
I wish I were Mount Everest
Rosie
Five miles high and more
Software
My lofty heights are tempting
Knobbly
But your legs won't half be sore
mercy killing
CdM
I wish I could show mercy
Raak
To all my enemies
Software
But I like the feel of power
irach
To see them begging on bent knees
Rosie
I wish I were a blender
Blender
, I said.
CdM
Filled up with lentil soup
Raak
I'd whizz and whizz and whizz and whizz
irach
Spinning leguminous goop
Simons Mith
I'm getting very lazy
Rosie
I put it down to age
Software
I think much more before I do
KagomeShuko
Because my bird escaped its cage.
irach
irach
I drank a Bloody Mary
Rosie
I won't do that again
Giertrud
It was full of tomato juice
KagomeShuko
Alas, it had no gin.
penelope
I wish it would stop raining
Software
Assuming a missing line
penelope - I wish it would stop raining
Software - My hair is getting wet
Simons Mith
That damp-dog odour follows me
Giertrud
I smell just like a pet!
Rosie
I wish I were a business card
KagomeShuko
So slick like Fonzarelli
Juxtapose
I'd hand myself out at the pub
Software
Too bad they're watching telly
CdM
I wish I were a vuvuzela
Raak
Buzzing all day long
Rosie
'Twould even kill Methuselah
Software
Can so many be so wrong?
irach
I wish I were on holiday
Simons Mith
Amidst the snowy peaks
Rosie
Alas I am in Basingstoke
Software
Amidst the yobs and freaks
Simons Mith
I like my pies with gravy
Raak
Deep fried with mushy peas
Rosie
Gastronomic'lly I'm cheap
Software
And not difficult to please
irach
I wish I'd put yeast in my dough
Software
My bread has gone all flat
KagomeShuko
Can water possibly make it grow?
Giertrud
Nah ... Let's stuff it with fat!
Running the line ...
Simons Mith
Now tear along the dotted line
Rosie
At sixty miles an hour
Raak
Veer not to either left or right
Software
Just go straight full power.
Juxtapose
I wish I were a football match
Rosie
Shown on ITV
penelope
With ad breaks for consumer goods
KagomeShuko
The money'd go to me!
Simons Mith
We play the vuvuzela with
Software
With England on our mind
Raak
Just add a swannee whistle and
Raak
(Anyone for a swannee-vuvuzela performance?)
CdM
And you'll go deaf and blind
Wait. "Swannee whistle" is a euphemism, right?
Rosie
I wish I were a scarecrow
Software
Standing in a sunny field
KagomeShuko
I'd buy all the suntan lotion
Giertrud
Until everybody peeled!
Simons Mith
The poppy fields are my domain
Raak
They earn me quite a packet
Rosie
So I'll defend them might and main
irach
Against a
Cosa Nostra
racket
Juxtapose
I wish I were a football
irach
Just kicked around by all
Software
Except, that is, the England team
Rosie
Or that of nearby Gaul.
Simons Mith
A football should be round and firm
Software
Just like an apricot
CdM
Which should be sweet of taste in turn
Simons Mith
– Reject it if it's not
CdM
I was sort of hoping for "Just like a football's not".
I wish you'd never shown me
irach
How not to kick that ball
Software
Then I'd not have played for England
Software
And come home with f*ck all
.. moving swiftly on ...
Rosie
I wish I were a clothes peg
Raak
Clamped tightly on your knickers
penelope
A freshening breeze blows up your leg
sorry sorry sorry
irach
Quite startling passing vicars
KagomeShuko
American Football's what Charlie Brown would play
Giertrud
But the ball he would kick is shaped more like an egg
Software
But Gordon Brown played rugby with an oval ball
bit clunky, this
Raak
And Lord George-Brown would never budge from square leg.
"Many modern poems are like bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously, but usually they just klunk." (Dunsany) Can we tinkle a little more melodiously, please?
irach
I wish melodious tinkles would
Simons Mith
Less often splash the seat
[irach] That's what you were angling for, isn't it?
Software
But
sitting
isn't manly
Juxtapose
When your trochees touch your feet
Rosie
I wish I were a radio mic
Software
Attached to Gordon Brown
oblig.
CdM
Then I could let the whole world know
penelope
Why governments fall down
mercy
I wish my suitcase would come back
Raak
From far-off Timbuktu
Software
Alas, its British Airways
- from bitter experience
irach
So my bag's now in Peru
CdM
I wish I'd never mentioned
Rosie
My girl-friend to my Mum
Giertrud
As now she wants to meet her
Software
And then become her chum
Rosie
I wish I were a conker
(Softers) This has happened to me in the past. It is Not Good.
CdM
A hundreder at least
Software
With n'eer a dent upon me
KagomeShuko
I'd slay the slimy beast!
Giertrud
I wish I were a croûton
irach
Dunked in hot onion soup
Software
From then I'd become soggy
Rosie
And lost in all the gloop.
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