Poetry Cafe 117: Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs No. 3

Rhymes, Chants, Poems and Songs
No. 3

The Merseybeats: Wishing and Hoping

Kenneth Steven: Wishing

Robert Burns: My love is like a red, red rose, …

Rhyming messages on Valentine cards…

An acrostic poem: V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E

I remember well, …

First Impressions

Catullus: I hate and I love/ Odi et amo/ Ich hasse und liebe

Diana Krall (and Elvis Costello): The Girl in the Other Room

Charles Causley: What has happened to Lulu?

Suzanne Vega: Luka

Tracy Chapman: Behind the Wall

Barry Cole: Reported Missing

Roger McGough: The Identification

D.H. Lawrence: Work

Rap song: Please Come Back…

Alan Brownjohn: In this City

Mowi Nowaz: Orphan Boy

Barrie Law: The Boy who lives down our street …

Ava Sukhdeo: Loneliness

Eric Idle: Always look on the bright side of life…

HAIKUS: by Basho, Boncho, Sora, Buson, Shiki

Roger McGough: Snowman in a field, … (a haiku)

John Kitching: Music through thin walls, … (a haiku)

Haikus written by school pupils …

Colin Rowbotham: Relative Sadness (a haiku)

I was frightened and alone, ….

A collection of cinquains (short 5-line poems, diamond-shaped) ….

S.J.Parker: Frost, … (a cinquain)

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite/ The Fairy Garden

Hickory, dickory, dock!

(article from Die Presse, Jan 18 2020: Babys lernen Kinderlieder schon im Mutterleib)

I’ve never felt finer, …

The Goldfish

A large collection of LIMERICKS!

Edward Thomas: Words

Roger McGough: Once upon a love, …

Suzanne Vega: Tom’s Diner