Monthly Archives: April 2025

Naughty Miss Harris

When I went with that naughty Miss Harris

For a dirty weekend to that beautiful Paris,

Her and Miss Honey

Stole all my money.

Dear reader, please send some money to Paris!

When the Mirror Fell

When the mirror fell

I thought not

Of the Lady of Shalott,

Although I know

The rhyme quite well.

 

 

Noone got cut.

You mentioned bad luck.

And I have not forgot

The unfortunate Shalott.

But believe it not.

I have Heard Nymphs are Sometimes Found

I have heard nymphs  are sometimes found

In the fragrant wood.

 

 

It would be good to lie down

On the leafy ground

And take delight in Aphrodite.

 

 

But no, the wood

Is full of deep mud

And poor Miss Aphrodite

Would spoil yet another nightie!

A Poem from “Leaving and Other Poems”

We maintain

The urbane

And are witty

In the city.

But those who hark

To the fox’s bark

In the suburban dark

Find the urbane

Hard to maintain

And their wit

Begins to slip.

 

(Note: the above poem appears in my collection “Leaving and Other Poems”, which is available in Kindle and paperback from Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leaving-other-poems-Kevin-Morris/dp/B09R3HR9KG).

An Act of Genorosity

When a young lady known as Miss Lee

Said, “I know that you don’t like me!”.

And I said, “you are nice,

But I have never liked vice!”,

She said, “what if I wave the fee …!

I Love the Wood

I long for the wet woods

Where the rainy breeze

Is full of flowers and leaves

And the damp earth

Speaks of death and rebirth.

I love the wood

When birds sing after rain.

 

 

I will surely die,

And Mother Nature will remain.

But we are forever part

Of nature’s great heart.

Her vital cycle of birth,

Death and good earth.

Children at Play

The sound of children playing ball.

A Blackbird’s call.

Sunlight on green grass.

I know all this must pass,

Yet take delight

On this spring day

In the call of the blackbird

And children’s play.

Meg and the Giant Easter Egg

There once was a girl named Meg

Who hid in a giant Easter egg.

But the sun shone down

And she turned chocolate brown,

And got eaten along with that egg!

My Horse Named Galloping Thought

On passing the golf course

On my horse named galloping thought,

I heard a blackbird trill.

 

 

At once my horse stood still

And my heart was caught

By the bird’s song.

 

 

But that stubborn old galloping horse

Did not stop long.

And my thought ran on.