ADVERSARY RHYMES
Twinkle twinkle little star
the sight I see is quite bizarre
nestling there against your thigh
like a sausage in a pie.
Hey diddle diddle
the cat’s on the fiddle
the cows gone down to the pub
the little boy smirked
when he found how it worked
and the plate's put the cup in the club.
It’s raining, it’s pouring
the old man’s performing
he patted her head and he took her to bed
and he never gave any forewarning.
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Author:
Michael Edwards (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I've jut written a series of these for a bit of fun plus another of my watercolours.
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Ahh, this explains my swoons. I remember hearing nursery rhymes like this when I was young - and up to about age 18. lol.
Gosh - you stopped young Orchi.
Yes I did - will anything stop my swooning?!
Wow! Great!!
Pleased you like them.
The watercolor is superb!
Love all three of them. To me they also sound very 'British' (sausages in a pie? For real?, pub, and the never-ending rain!) Hey, I am not knocking it, just observing! 🙂
Oh yes sausages in a pie - toad in the hole - British pubs - is the expression 'to put someone in the club' ( ie to make them pregnant) used in the States ? Thanks Fred.
Never heard it, but Hawaii IS different from the mainland. We have a lot of local expressions not used anywhere else. What can be heard sometimes if a woman is pregnant is: She has a bread in the oven.
In Hawaii we have pidgin English, and we also use quite a few Hawaiian words in our everyday language. For example if you are finished with something, you say you are pau. A hole is a puka. We do not use north/south/east/west when giving directions. On Oahu south is diamond head, north is Ewa and instead of east/west we use mauka (Mountain side) and makai (Ocean side). With the exception of the middle of the island, where there are mountains on both sides, everywhere else things are either on the side of the ocean or on the side of the mountain.
Language is such an interesting phenomena. And it changes all the time. Remember the 60's with expressions like 'groovy'? Now it is 'cool'.
Same thing with Swiss German. We use a lot of French words, but pronounced in a German way.
We also say: She's got a bun in the oven' Groovy and cool are both yesterday over here - someone is now 'fit' and there are several other expressions which my grandchildren use but which I can't remember - signs of age age I guess.
Are you familiar with the 3 nursery rhymes on which the above are based?
Yes, but don't know all the words by heart.
Hi Michael,
I loved these Adversary Rhymes.
Naughty and ever so funny.
Beautiful watercolour.
Keep writing
FineB
Thanks FB - a few more tomorrow.
Beautiful paint. Can not help laughing while read the poem.
Ah a clever alternative to the nursery rhymes Michael and reading them set me into giggle-fits - you are so clever at writing the slightly sensuous - - brilliantly presented watercolour too. Saved these little naughties to read again.
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