Silent Noises

I thought I heard a silent pop

And then I thought I heard it stop.

Then I thought I heard a bubble,

Then a second, double bubbles.

Soon after that I heard the sun,

Beaming its rays on everyone

I heard a mime when he looked around

And then I heard my Daddy when he frowned

I was thinking how this was quite absurd

When I heard the loudest nothing I had ever heard

It started squeaking and ended with a blast.

I think it saved the best for last.

Silent noises are for ears so keen

And are almost never ever seen

They develop from mist falling up to the sky

Just once a year on 3rd of July.

A Sneeze to Please

The nightmans pipe

With shadowed flipe

Within the moonlights gaze

When hat and cape

Beneath the flape

Then comes a misty haze

Wollupe the group

And stoop for soup

When night time turns to freeze
Many miles of moonlight later

He is overdue a sneeze.

A sneeze to please the Sturkaneze

Who bet upon his nose
A bookies on his eyebrows

The receipts come from his toes.

The Didgyduldeen

Of all the dances there have ever been

Be careful when doing the didgyduldeen​

I danced it once and I found it quite nice

But the rule is to never do the dance twice

For out of the shadows jumped Barnaby Bren

The roughular, toughular mad fighting hen

Ducking and weaving with anger in his eyes

Just ‘cos I twirled, hopped and slapped my own thighs

 If I could I would have thrown in the towel

As there's never been as mean-spirited or as dangerous a fowl.

I was face to face now with the hen that's most feared

I did the didgyduldeen again and he just disappeared.

The Mystery Queen

A night and day has never been

The likes to greet the mystery queen

Some say she comes from far off places

And she is a queen of many faces

The queen not much is known about

Except she likes to dance with trout

She catches weasels in some nets

She likes to tame them, make them pets

Training small jockeys for rabbit races

It’s what they do in far off places.