I have a large rod by my side; I lurch
With it towards all those who perch in my birch;
but often, as they're Poles, they fight back
And say 'ours is a meter longer, you clumsy hack.'
Cherry Orchard
Basses
Radiation suit
Guide to writing Eurovision songs
In the cherry orchard, the merciless axes fall
With a background of basses from the ancestal hall.
In my radiation suit, I stand
With a guide to writing Eurovision songs in my hand.
hornet
bagpipes
A Sentimental Journey
Milton Keynes
I once sold hornet's nests and sold them to
Bagpipe-wielding, blind pensioners who had no clue.
I now, with Sterne's 'A sentimental journey' in my hand,
Brainwash all swimmers first in Milton Keynes, then Bognor, then the land.
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Beachcomber
Parasol
Joan of Arc
Flamingo CD
dròm_et_rêve wrote:
Beachcomber
Parasol
Joan of Arc
Flamingo CD
The beachcomber combed in a lazy stroll
Keeping the sun off with a green parasol
In her mind she was playing Joan of Arc
While a Flamingo CD drowned a dogs lonely bark.
Vegetable
Spag Bol
Rattle
Rack
A vegetable love is ever green
I make the best spag bol you've ever seen.
Tweedledum said Tweedledee had spoilt his nice new rattle,
With a succulent rack of lamb I certainly could do battle.
grouper
Kew Gardens
omelet
understanding
Clary wrote:
grouper
Kew Gardens
omelet
understanding
The grouper's mouth is big and wide
In the Kew Gardens pond he does reside
I'll have him one day with an omelet
On the understanding there is no bone in it.
Rotten apple
Dry clean
Recite
Silver plate
Okay, I think I have the hang of this game.
There was a rotten apple,
That needed to be dry cleaned.
And um... recite...
A silver plate?
dròm_et_rêve wrote:
García Lorca
Abdomen worker
Armenian Singles
A room of one's own
Garcia Lorca penned 'Blood Wedding' in Spain
While using an abdomen worker - no pain no gain.
Armenian singles dine out in Yerevan.
A room of one's own is absolute hervan.
Mobile phone
Electric guitar
Temperamental mouse
Trust
I like to, when I'm on my mobile phone
Play my electric guitar so loud that the drone
Will kill each temperamental mouse that lurks...
Whom will I trust? That load of scabby berks?
Navy blue thread
Freeview box
Brazil nut stand
Crushed velvet
With navy blue thread I tie my unruly hair
Standing on that freeview box over there.
A Brazil nut stand, not usable for walnuts or peanuts or cobs
Is covered in a light purple crushed velvet cloak to protect it from yobs.
firedog
cd catalogue
horsetail fern
Midnight in Moscow vinyl record
People set fire to firedogs; I think that it's cruel,
So I hit them over the head with a karaoke cd catalogue and bury them in gruel.
I then cloak my head in horsetail fern,
Set off on a journey, listening to my Midnight in Moscow vinyl record on every turn.
Philip Larkin's Collected Poems
Old Hungarian papers
Fool's gold
Anne Brontë statue
Philip Larkin's Collected Poems
Old Hungarian papers
Fool's gold
Anne Brontë statue
'Philip Larkin's Collected Poems' includes 'The Whitsun Weddings' which is appropriate for today,
More so than old Hungarian papers, I should say.
Sometimes reading poetry turns out to be digging for fool's gold;
I hope I don't look like an Anne Brontê statue when I'm old.
ice lolly
the Enlightenment
the Tower card in tarot
a quest
I can get a grape-flavoured ice lolly; I bet that you can't,
And I bet that you can't dress up like people from the Enlightenment and chant
The meanings behind the not-so-ominous Tower card in Tarot
Or the Soviet interpretation of a quest in Poirot.
Threadworm tablets
Plush
The Métro
A plan to take over Big Brother
Threadworm tablets
Plush
The Métro
A plan to take over Big Brother
So you are taking threadworm tablets, said the doc;
Crossing one leg over the other to show her plush purple sock.
If you go on the Métro you can get to many different stations,
And a plan to take over Big Brother would result in lawsuits and litigations.
lesbian housemate
jacaranda tree
flex
vermin
My lesbian housemate's in quite a state:
She was caught doing objectionable things in a jacaranda tree quite late.
Now, in frustration, she gambols, uses her flex machine,
And sighs 'they may be vermin, but they're not green.'
Narrow-ruled notepaper
The Clary Store
2B pencil
Nasty Italian sweets
Narrow-ruled notepaper
The Clary Store
2B pencil
Nasty Italian sweets
Narrow-ruled notepaper keeps you on the strait and narrow.
The logo for the Clary Store is a Sagittarian centaur with bow and arrow.
Put down that 2B pencil, it is much too soft and black.
Nasty Italian sweets are creeping unaided out of their cardboard pack.
a haricot bean
stethoscope
a bough of cherry blossom
tweezers
It was a haricot bean supply that won the war,
Not a stethoscope as thought before;
While they argue about it, I hide in a bough of cherry blossom and
Look threatening with a pair of rusty tweezers in my hand.
Pink highlighter
Taggiatelli
Tazer guns
Campain to change the name of Starburst back to Opal Fruits
Pink highlighter
Taggiatelli
Tazer guns
Campain to change the name of Starburst back to Opal Fruits
Pink highlighter emphasized her gigantic nose;
She threaded tagliatelli between her toes.
Toting Tazer guns, we lolloped off to Boots,
Protesting in favour of the Campaign to change the name of Starburst back to Opal Fruits
wren
handkerchief of Irish linen
high court judge
bin
Today, I feel like flying like a wren
Or ruining a handkerchief of Irish linen with a purple pen;
But there are restrictions on that imposed by High court judges throughout the Commonwealth;
I'll get my revenge: I'll throw a bin at them with huge stealth..
Tomato soup
Steel drums
The French secret service
Dandruff in a box
