CUISINE QUERY

If you were to eat

Pasta and antipasta

Would you still hunger

For a starter?

OPEN TOUR

 

Why do they call it

The tourist season

If shooting at them

Is not allowed then

GOODBYE CHILDHOOD

 

You know you have reached the end of your childhood

When Christmas is a lot of work and Naps are good

When Saturday mornings are now just for sleeping

And Hitting girls is no longer considered to be flirting

When The only thing in your cereal box is cereal

And You only WANT clothes for Christmas for real

When you’re Driving the car it’s no longer any fun

You always wear a hat and have to keep out of the sun

You leave foot ball matches early to beat the crowd

And you don’t like concerts because they’re just so loud

You actually buy yourself scarves, gloves, and sunscreen

And you think car insurance premiums are obscene

When being bad is no longer considered being cool

And you have friends who have kids who go to school

You saw the Star Wars movie when it first came out

Finally, your parents' jokes are now funny without a doubt

DOWN ON THE FARM

 

I stayed on my uncle’s farm for a fortnight’s holiday

And it was so wild and windy on one particular day

One chicken laid the same egg four times that day

WHAT A WEEK

 

We went to the lakes

For a week’s holiday

It only rained twice

While we were away

Once for six days

And once for a day

CREATURES OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY – HYDRA

 

There was a dreadful union between the giant immortal Typhon

And the black fearful eyed Echidne, half serpent, half woman

The terrifying end result of this unnatural union was the hydra

A great many headed Drakon who inhabited the swamps of Lerna

It was the second labor of Heracles to kill the water Drakon

And the hero drew the great creature out to fight in the open

Then with his bronze sword he hacked off heads from the hydra

But for every head he severed two grew in place of the other

If that wasn’t bad enough the Hydra's breath was itself lethal

And even to smell its footprints was enough to kill any mortal

Very Soon the beast’s heads tangled around him like serpents

Iolaus his nephew comes to his aid and his death he prevents

As Heracles cut off its heads and to prevent new ones sprouting 

Iolaus with a flaming torch sealed the wounds by cauterizing

Finally, Heracles lopped off the last one and Hydra was dead

He buried deep below a boulder the Hydras one immortal head

DENNIS ANYONE? (TANKA)

 

Her dear husband was

The golden thread running through

His Margaret’s life

He was her rod and her staff 

The iron ladies Dennis