Monday, March 10, 2008

Limerick #2

PURE R U B B I S H

Queen Mary gave birth

To all mice and no mirth

And dropped her sweet head

On the bulldozers girth

So it happened to pass

When the boy got the lash

The clouds uttered nonsense

Of god’s holy wrath

It stirred me awake

And I called from my bed

As a shelf full of piggy banks

Fell ‘pon by head

And the little girl’s prayer

Pickled with lace

No breakfast for me

No sausage no eggs

It’s tepid tap water

And soggy cornflakes

(Poetry D. Commisso)


Sunday, March 9, 2008

Limerick #1


Let me take you down
To the lonely field
Where silence has replaced despair
With little black-lace underwear
And all of love is built on dreams,
And found in magazines

(poetry D. Commisso)