Sing a song of sixpence,
Someone tell me, what is that?
Could it be a wooden nickle?
Could it be a mess of cats?
Do you eat it, spend it, sniff it?
Does it stick to you like glue?
Does a sixpence come with pudding?
Is it fried or boiled or blue?
Sing a song of sixpence,
I really don't know how.
Is a sixpence something large,
That'd you'd find upon a cow?
Would you stroke or pet or flay it?
Do you roll it round the floor?
Is a sixpence good for nothing,
or for keeping shut a door?
Sing a song of sixpence,
a pocket full of rye.
That's worse, oh please don't tell me.
That the pocket in your pants.
Is now full of some hard liquor.
Or a cup of flour perchance.
I can't begin to fathom,
Why a song like this is sung.
I swear that those who wrote it,
Should have their necks all wrung!
Well, I still have a few sixpences, and the rest of the old currency in a drawer. We also had a thrupence, (threepence) which was half a sixpence.Then there were farthings halfpennies, shillings, florins, half crowns. All before the currency was changed. It was much better then. Anyway, nice little poem. Gerald J Tate
Of course the truth is out there. Maybe they had sixpence bags in those days instead of dime bags? Anyway, I was greatly amused by your imaginative poem.
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day.
Selected poems from previous & forthcoming collections together with Q&R apps on each page to enable audio rendition simultaneously with the written text
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Sandie May Angel a.k.a. Sandie Angel :o)
British ... a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies. They have not been minted since 1970.
Aside from the facts, your droll humor is appreciated.
Light and Wisdom ...
Richard Lloyd Cederberg