Funny Poems week.

[Bob Pacey]

Not so silly that it is not funny >>


Good one first up Heather Jean.


Cheers Bob.

[Heather]

Sorry Bob, are you saying it isn't silly - because clearly it is so silly and I nearly didn't post it. (There goes my reputation as a serious poet! ) Are you saying it is NOT funny. I can't say, it's been on the back blocks for probably nearly 2 years so I can't see the funny side of it any more. It is a sequal to an earlier poem. You want to see it? It's silly too...

[Bob Pacey]

This is all in capitals I know and it is as old as the hills but might give someone a laugh. As you can see I wrote it back in 1999.


HEREDITARY

NOW BILLY WAS A BUSHMAN,
AN ABORIGINAL TO BOOT
HE WORKED WITH SHEEP AWAY OUT WEST
ON THE LONG PADDOCK ROUTE.

BILLY’S LOVELY WIFE WAS JENNY
AND OF KIDS THEY WANTED THREE
HE DOTED ON THAT WOMAN
IT WAS SUCH A JOY TO SEE.

BUT BILL SPENT MANY MONTHS AWAY
TO FIND WATER AND GOOD FEED
BUT EVERY TIME THAT HE CAME HOME
THEY WOULD TRY TO PLANT HIS SEED.

BILL RECKONED THAT A FAMILY
WOULD HELP HIS WIFE TO SETTLE DOWN
FOR STATION LIFE IS LONELY
WHEN YOU ARE LEFT HOME ON YOUR OWN.

WHEN BILLY’S WIFE AS LAST GAVE BIRTH
IT WAS A LOVELY BOUNCING BOY
ONE WOULD RECKON THAT THE LAD
WAS SURE TO BE HIS PRIDE AND JOY.

BUT THE LAD HAD SKIN AS WHITE AS SNOW
WITH FRECKLES AND RED HAIR
AND BILLY KNEW NOT WHAT TO DO
HE HAD TO CLEAR THE AIR.

BILL WENT TO SEE THE BOSSES SON
A LAD BOTH FIT AND STRONG
PERHAPS A SMARTER MAN THEN HE
COULD WORK WHAT WENT WRONG.

THE BOSSES SON WAS IRISH STOCK
RED HAIR AND FRECKLES MANY
AND BILL ALWAYS SUSPECTED THAT
THE LAD HAD BEEN WITH JENNY.

HOW SO ASKED BILL COULD THIS OCCUR
WHEN MY WIFE AND I ARE BLACK
THE BOSSES SON LOOKED EDGY
AS HE SOUGHT TO CHANGE THE TACK.


WHY ITS ALL TIED UP IN GENES YOU KNOW
AS HIS GUILT HE TRIED TO HIDE
TO SHOW JUST WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
JUST COME AND STEP OUTSIDE.

CAN YOU SEE THOSE SHEEP THERE BILLY
THOUSANDS OF THEM SNOWY WHITE
BUT EVERY NOW AND THEN THERE’S ONE
THAT’S DARK AND BLACK AS NIGHT.

NOW NO ONE CAN EXPLAIN IT
HOW IT HAPPENS ON THE DAY
ITS IN THE GENES THEY TELL ME
IT’S HEREDITY THEY SAY.

OH YES SAID BILL NOW I CAN SEE
THE REASON AS YOU SAID
SOME THINGS ARE BEST LEFT WELL ALONE
AND WORDS LEFT AS UNSAID.

I KNOW NOW BOSS THE POINT YOU MAKE
THIS SECRET I CAN KEEP
IF I FORGET THE HAIR AND FRECKLES
YOU WON’T MENTION THE BLACK SHEEP.

BOB PACEY
16/01/99

[Bob Pacey]

Heather sometimes you just have to write what comes out silly or not.


I like it and I think you gave me a copy of the original ages ago.



Yes It is sillly and funny


Boib

[Bob Pacey]

Oh while I think of it re Maureens poem.


The owner of Tickles Wholeslae Distributors was Tom Tickle and his wife yes you guessed it was


Tess Tickle was hard to hold a straight face when at a function.

Bob

[william williams]

By hell Bob thats an old one. it was told around many a campfire in the early 60's

Bill W

[Maureen K Clifford]

love it Bob now that is good Aussie humour - dare say it could transpose to good Maori humour as well

Might want to fix this typo

AS HE SOUGHT TO CHANGE THE TACK. - as opposed to perhaps sorting his socks

[Bob Pacey]

Yeah Bill it sure is an old one but sometimes they are the best.


Thanks Maureen that's SORTED now

Bob Pacey I. A. W. P. Esquire

[william williams]

here is one my mother used to tell me when we stopped having fires in our fire place when we were kids
but it id funny how words get changed when you get older

The boy stood on the burning deck
That soon would turn to embers
And soon we see the last of this September

bill the old battler

[Wendy Seddon]

But for a comma I could have been wed,
but for a stroke of the pen.
Had I just proofed it before it was sent,
I wouldn't be single again!

I was so sorry that we'd had a fight,
wrote it down, sent it to him...
"sorry I love you." was then what he read,
our future is now looking dim!