May All Your Underpants be Wonderpants

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from the ABC set Junk

If a copper comes a cropper on the crapper,
And his doctor is definitively dapper,
Can that copper have a kipper with his cuppa,
And a single soggy sandwich for his supper?

If a brewer is bequeathed a balding bantam,
And fearfully frows farvings at a phantom,
Can that brewer brew a better batch of bitter,
And fiiddle-like become forever fitter?

If man is made mad master over monkey,
And finds fast friends forensically funky,
Can God and man made manacled by marriage,
Conceive a crooked copper in a carriage?

If a writer writes wise words of wildest wonder,
Through time to tintinnabulate and thunder,
Can that writer ride a whiter winter wherry,
On ABC to earn himself a cherry?

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Comments

Nathan Bednarek | September 23, 2008 - 18:07

This is great. The alliteration is in perfect harmony with the rhythm and the choice of words is wonderful.

Well done.

Nathan.

FTSE100 | September 23, 2008 - 20:07

Thank you, Nathan. I take that as a great compliment, coming from somebody who writes real poetry. God bless you!

Nathan Bednarek | September 24, 2008 - 00:36

Wow... and thank you! It was so nice of you to say that. God bless you too! ;-)

tcook | September 25, 2008 - 18:55

Oh yes he can - for a poet pining piously for pie,
needs cherries as his berries are awry.

FTSE100 | September 25, 2008 - 22:29

Thanks, Tony. So that's how you get cherries - by begging for them! I do indeed pine for pie, but my berries are not in the least awry. Not last time I looked, anyway.