This week’s homework assignment for our Creative Writing group was to be inspired by the story of “if the cuckoo don’t crow” . So I decided to try my hand at nonsense! Here goes!
If the cuckoo don’t crow
and the crow flies on by
then spring is at hand
and fishes will fly.
If leaves are bright pink
and day break is lost
then hold onto your hat
and be in fear of a ghost.
if pigs walked on stilts
and reindeer were blue
then Harry Potter would have died
and your home is the zoo.
if life is a Truman show
and your best mate a dog
then you’d eat breakfast at midnight
and swim in the fog.
If water was caustic
and acid was sweet
a dose of figs
would be right up your street.
If clocks went backwards
and time was reversed
then your gran is your offspring
and life’s plain perverse.
But the day always breaks
and breakfast’s at seven
the trees are green
in my kindergarten heaven.
gran’s a little old lady who lives with a cat
feeds the fish in the river where we sit for a chat
Harry Potter survived and Ghost’s a dire wolf
the red nose is Rudolph’s - Now there’s no need to scoff
at these things I’m sure of,
‘cos there’s one thing I know -
that pigs don’t fly and the cuckoo don’t crow!
© Sheila Ash 29th November 2015
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