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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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Rosie
I'm glad I'm not a banker
Software
For bonuses I hate
penelope
Those coins weigh down my pockets
Raak
And make me very late.
Spangle
Beware the Jabberwock my son!
irach
His eyes are all aflame
Raak
Be bold, and with your vorpal sword
Juxtapose
Restore our family name.
Spangle
This recipe for meatloaf
Raak
Needs garlic -- twenty cloves
Rosie
This means that it can stop a train
penelope
And empty it, in droves
Hmmm. Maybe someone else could have done it better.
Software
I wish that I could write a verse
[pen] good result given the circumstance
Spangle
In praise of paradigms
penelope
But that would clearly be peverse
Rosie
So just do one that rhymes.
penelope
I wish that I were far away
Raak
In fabled Samarkand
Phil
I'd grab a passing camel
Software
And ride across the sand
KagomeShuko
I've learned why these are called glowworms
CdM
(Though I haven't quite mastered the form)
Software
Though they're nothing like a limerick
Spangle
Nobody really notices if I add an extra beat or two - hang on, where's me mate?
penelope
So why am I a glowworm?
come and have a go if you think you're hard enough
Rosie
Because, by night, you shine
Simons Mith
Your arse emits a friendly light
irach
That almost outshines mine
Rosie
I wish I were a pot-hole
(irach) Er, we'll be the judge of that. :-)
Raak
To lie in wait for bikes
penelope
I lure unwary pedallers
[p, R, SM, i] marvellous. And not just because it's apparently in praise of me :o)
Software
Then I leaps out and strikes
Simons Mith
Today's the day the Aintree nags
Rosie
Leap o'er Becher's Brook
penelope
And bookies take their money bags
CdM
To fill with takings took
Software
I beat the bookies at their game
penelope
My stake went on a silly name
And when the first horse passed the post
I was the one who'd won the most
so sorry, it ran away with me
CdM
I wish the odds were better
Rosie
'Gainst life's slings and arrows
(pen) I hope you behaved yourself.
Software
But with the right protection
penelope
The winning margin narrows
Rosie
I wish I were a policeman
Software
Because I am power mad
Raak
My truncheon would be hard and thick
Phil
A lot like me and dad
irach
I wish I were a spotted skunk
Rosie
A weas'lly little stinker
penelope
And smell just like my grandpa stunk
Software
'Tho I'm just a little pinker
Spangle
This break in the proceedings
Phil
Could not have been timed better
Rosie
I'll go and take some readings
(mode = weather nut.)
penelope
And see if it got wetter
awright, Rosie?
Rosie
I wish I were a cloudburst
(pen) Das Wetter ist sehr trocken.
Raak
I'd rain all over you
Software
With splishy-sploshy raindrops
irach
As big as drops of dew
Simons Mith
The sun today is very hot
Raak
But the air is very cold
Rosie
Sunburn, frostbite, all at once
nfras
But where? You shan't be told
penelope
I'm working very hard today
Raak
At writing deathless prose
Software
I'm trying to clear my desk, you see
Rosie
Of all that is verbose.
Simons Mith
The midnight oil's all been burned
irach
Adding to greenhouse gases
Rosie
The textbook pages have been turned
Giertrud
By studious lads and lasses.
nfras
The time has come for all good men
Raak
To join in our just cause
penelope
And if we find agreement, then
Software
We'll campaign to change the laws
nfras
Good women too, are needed here
KagomeShuko
They add that feminine touch
Kim
As long as they don't get ideas
penelope
And wear the trousers much
*steams*
Rosie
I wish I were a referee
(pen) Not surprised. Get some water in the boiler - quick.
Software
I rule with rod of steel
CdM
Don't hesitate to show the red
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