Posts tagged culture
But Tales for Children Now
But tales for children now
And even then not often told
For children have no interest
In fairy tales told by the old
In a world full of Playstations
And other types of video game
Playing is not what it was
And our values are not the same.
Stupid stories that are called today
We forget times age old rule
Every story contains a moral
Understood [...]
Woman with Baby Sit Neath a Vardo
‘Tween wheels of her vardo
Infant in arms
This girl has all the luck she needs
No prayers chants or charms
Can make her life better
Or gold rings or necklaces
With a childless spinster with gold in a castle
Shed rather go hungry than change places…
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Less Is More
More or less, less is more
Less shown, the unknown
Imagined excites, invites investigation
Honey to a fly, man is caught before
He realises he has known
The perils of the seas of copulation.
Another girl, jewels on display
For lasting love, waits another day.
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Dark Brown Turf
By hand it was cut, the dark brown turf
Donkey and ass dew it by cart home
Hands hard from work tossed it to the fire
Neath hair that rare e’re saw a comb
Then by machine it was cut, dark turf
Tractor now drew it home to the shed
Soft hands, from little work, into the range
Tossed it, neath styled combed hair now instead.
Now, by decree [...]
God Baking, Mankind He Made
When God made man some clay He did take
And set in the oven of earth for to bake
So that a perfect man for this world to make
And in it to dwell
The first came out, it was black
So God turned down the heat when he put the mould back
As He thought He burned it, and hadn’t the knack
To make mankind well
The next it came out: oh, what a si [...]
