Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Oojah-Ka-Piv

The people who liveOn the Oojah-ka-PivStand around in bundles of nineWhen asked how it feelsThey reply 'Curried Eels'!Otherwise - everything's going..

© Spike Milligan

Welcome Home

Unaware of my crimethey stood me in the dock.I was sentenced to life....without her.Strange trial.No judge.No jury.I wonder who my visitors will be.

© Spike Milligan

The Soldiers At Lauro

Young are our deadLike babies they lieThe wombs they blest onceNot healed dryAnd yet - too soonInto each spaceA cold earth fallsOn colder face.Quite..

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Why?

American DetectivesNever remove their hatsWhen investigating murdersIn other people's flats.P.S. Chinese TecsAre far more dreaded!And they always..

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Goodbye S.S.

Go away girl, go awayand let me pack my dreamsNow where did I put those yesteryearsmade up with broken seamsWhere shall I sweep the piecesmy God they..

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Contagion

Elephants are contagious!Be careful how you tread.An Elephant that's been trodden onShould be confined to bed!Leopards are contagious too.Be careful..

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Indian Boyhood

What happened to the boy I was?Why did he run away?And leave me old and thinking, likeThere'd been no yesterday?What happened then?Was I that boy?Who..

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If I Could Write Words

If I could write wordsLike leaves on an autumn forest floor,What a bonfire my letters would make.If I could speak words of water,You would drown when..

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Philip Le Barr

Philip Le Barr,Was knock down by a car,On the road to Mandalay.He was knocked down againBy a dust cart in SpainAnd again in Zanzibar.So,He travled at..

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Eurolove

I cannotand I will notNo, I cannot love you lessLike the flower to the butterflyThe corsage to the dressShe turns my love to dustmy destination..

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Teeth

English Teeth, English Teeth!Shining in the sunA part of British heritageAye, each and every one.English Teeth, Happy Teeth!Always having funClamping..

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I Must Go Down To The Sea Again

I must go down to the sea again,to the lonely sea and the sky;I left my shoes and socks there -I wonder if they're dry?

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Halved

The essence of true beautyLingers in all-encompassing rainbowsOf your joy and laughterYou hold my hand and smileAs we ensconce ourselves in our world..

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Letters

I was thinking of letters,We all have a lot in our lifeA few good - a few sadBut mostly run of the mill-I suppose that's my faultFor writing to run..

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Go North, South, East, And West, Young Man

Drake is going west, ladsSo Tom is going EastBut tiny FredJust lies in bed,The lazy little beast.

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The Dog Lovers

So they bought youAnd kept you in aVery good homeCental heatingTVA deep freezeA very good home-No one to take youFor that lovely long run-But..

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The Lion

If you're attacked by a LionFind fresh underpants to try onLay on the ground quite stillPretend you are very illKeep like that day after dayPerhaps..

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Unto Us...

Somewhere at some timeThey committed themselves to meAnd so, I was!Small, but I WAS!Tiny, in shapeLusting to liveI hung in my pulsing cave.Soon they..

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Jumbo Jet

I saw a little elephant standing in my garden,I said 'You don't belong in here', he said 'I beg you pardon?',I said 'This place is England, what are..

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Me

Born screaming small into this world-Living I am.Occupational therapy twixt birth and death-What was I before?What will I be next?What am I now?Cruel..

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My Sister Laura

My sister Laura's bigger than meAnd lifts me up quite easily.I can't lift her, I've tried and tried;She must have something heavy inside.

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Feelings

There must be a wound!No one can be this hurtand not bleed.How could she injure me so?No marksNo bruiseWorse!People say 'My, you're looking..

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Bump

Things that go 'bump' in the nightShould not really give one a fright.It's the hole in each earThat lets in the fear,That, and the absence of light!

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The Abc

'Twas midnight in the schoolroomAnd every desk was shutWhen suddenly from the alphabetWas heard a loud "Tut-Tut!"Said A to B, "I don't like C;His..

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Bazonka

Say Bazonka every dayThat's what my grandma used to sayIt keeps at bay the Asian Flu'And both your elbows free from glue.So say Bazonka every..

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