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Three Lots of Nonsense

I.

 

A louse in a house

or a mouse on a blouse.

A bell that goes ****

or a gong that goes ****

A gap on a map

or a cap on your lap.

A drink in the sink

or an ink that stinks.

A spleen on a screen

or a queen who is green.

A bow in the snow

or a crow that glows.

 

II.

 

A wash or a whip,

a lip or a lop,

a top or a tip,

a car or afar,

a bar or a war,

a door or a snore,

a bore or a nail,

a flail or a whale,

a run or a bun,

a sun or a moon,

a spoon or a bus,

a fuss or a sigh,

a cry or a cheer,

a fear or a smile,

a while or a pen,

a den or a cat,

a mat or a hat,

a bat or a glass,

a vase or a weight,

a mate or a fork,

a cork or a mop,

a cop or a stop.

 

III.

 

Apples and artichokes, ants and antelopes,

bees and beers, books and brains,

cucumbers and chimneys, ***** and coats,

dogs and drains, dots and dominoes,

ears and eejits, elephants and exams,

flies and flutes, files and friends,

grasses and guts, giants and gyms,

horrors and hiccups, horses and hills,

igloos and irons, irises and idiots,

jumpers and jackets, jodhpurs and jellies,

kings and kettles, kites and kittens,

lions and lamps, lemons and lunches,

mums and monsters, mosses and moths,

noses and notes, nightmares and needles,

oblongs and orang-utans, organs and oranges,

paintings and pennies, ponds and pants,

quiches and quizzes, questions and queues,

rainbows and rings, rascals and rabbits,

snakes and sprouts, sweets and salts,

trumpets and trains, tables and toasters,

umpires and ukuleles, umbrellas and uniforms,

violets and vests, violins and vials,

wheels and wings, windows and weeds,

xylems and x-rays, xylophones and xysters,

yachts and yoghurts, yards and yaks,

zigzags and zephyrs, ziggurats and zombies.

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Written by
reece-aj-chambers
33 / M / English
Published
Oct 29, 2013
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Written: October 2013.

Explanation: A poem in three parts written in my own time. I guess this is aimed primarily at young children - written mainly as a bit of fun. Although the language is fairly simple for a child to understand, some words will obviously be unfamiliar, but perhaps if read aloud a definition of the word could later be provided to the child. It is unlikely a child would use the word 'ziggurats' for example, but nevertheless, these more challenging words might be interesting to a child, simply because of the sound and unfamiliar nature of it.

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