Lines from Oz
The Poetry of Brian Langley
Nautical Nonsense
A collection of short poems with a nautical theme
The ocean
is made
of blue lemonade,
Salty, so people won't scoff it.
But if it were sweeter
You'd not find a litre.
'Twould all have been sold for a profit.
Fiddle
sharks come out to play
Just as night time turns to day.
They fiddle for an hour or so
Then pack there bows and off they go.
There are
mountain peaks beneath the sea.
And in them, many caves.
And that's where hermit crabs abide,
Beneath the ocean waves.
A damsel
fish is very poor.
She only has one dress.
She takes it off on laundry days
And is a damsel in distress.
There's
lots of whales that live out there.
Whales aren't fish, 'cos they breathe air.
They're very big and very strong
And many of them sing a song
As they swim off to polar climes.
I wonder, Do they make up rhymes?
© B.Langley. Feb 10th 2002