ZOO

From rats to nits we've got it all
This house is like a zoo,
There's beetles in the woodwork
And there's lizards in the loo.
There's a rhino in the garden
There's a lemur in the shed
And a tiny armadillo
Who is stuck beneath the bed.
There's a thousand cheeky chipmunks
Who refuse to go away,
And standing in the front room
There a camel eating hay

There are...
Twenty Elephants, Nineteen pigs
And Eighteen badgers wearing wigs
Seventeen cats, sixteen mice
Fifteen wolves, fourteen lice,
Thirteen hamsters stuck in wheels
Twelve baboons, eleven seals,
Ten tapir with great big noses,
Nine night owls all eating roses
Eight eels up inside the bath
With seven cows and a little calf
There's six small sloths and five big dogs
And four cute bright green bouncing frogs
There's three giraffes and two racoons
And a walrus that keeps eating spoons...

Oh... this is such a strange, strange house
I don't know what to do,
I think I might just quit my job
And open up a zoo.

Spring Flowers.

Little flower bulbs
Down in the dark,
Lying so silently
Suddenly spark.
The weather is warmer
They're longing to grow,
After months in the ground
Beneath rain, frost and snow.
They start to expand
They stretch out their roots,
They gradually grow
They push up small shoots.

And up in the fields
In the woods and the park
We see their green tips
Appear out of the dark.
The Crocus, the Daffodil,
The Tulips all rise,
With the Hyacinth and Iris
They stretch to the skies.

And we people above,
In the lovely spring air,
We stand in amazement
And in wonder we stare
At the beauty around us
As nature's unfurled,
And we think to ourselves
What a wonderful world.

Tell me do

Please, please, please
Tell me how I sneeze,
Tell me why I dream at night
And how I bend my knees.

Do, do, do
Please tell me how I chew
Tell me why I hear my thoughts
And how I speak to you.

Right, right, right
What is the speed of light
Are the stars there in the daytime
Or are they only there at night?

I really want to know these things
It's troubling my mind,
Could you Google up an answer please
And tell me what you find?

Sleep Train

At night a little sleep train

Stops beside a person's bed

And either they get on it

Or they stay awake instead.

If the person jumps onto the train
Then in dreams they float away,
And they can then forget themselves
Until another day.

But if they miss the sleep train
No matter how the person strives,
They have to lay awake until
Another one arrives.

Pompeii

In Pompeii they stay where they fell and died
Crouched in rooms, all full of fear and weeping,
A mother holding babies at her side,
As though they are not dead but merely sleeping.
A man is screaming but he makes no sound
Another's voice is crying to be heard,
I stand quite still and move my eyes around
My tongue is stone I cannot speak a word.
I glide outside and take a photograph
I make a post on Facebook for my friends
I move around upon a gravel path
We live our life and suddenly it ends.
I've had enough so slowly walk away,
Unlike the stony dead of old Pompeii.

Fireworks.

Fireworks, fireworks
Red, pink and blue,
Purple, green and orange
And bright, bright yellow too.

I watch the fireworks explode,
I cover up my ears,
I think I'm making memories
That will last a thousand years.

I love to watch the fireworks
As they float up in the night,
I love the pretty colours
And the little, noisy fright.

Green Bogeys

Green bogeys, Green bogeys,

All stuck to my thumb,

Green bogeys, green bogeys,

Can I give you some?

We’ll eat them for breakfast

We’ll eat them for tea,

Green bogeys, green bogeys

Delicious and free.