My Grandmother taught me this about 70 years past. Maybe anybody feeling down on this miserable Saturday will be a little cheered.
It was a nice September morning in October last July
The moon lay flat upon the sea the snow shone in the sky.
The flowers were sweetly singing,
The birds were in full bloom,
As I went down the cellar steps
To clean the upstairs room.
Very good. I love Edward Lear nonsense rhymes and one of my favourites is;
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'
LLAP, Eric 👏🙋😜
Lovely. Was it him who also wrote
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish to god he would go away.
I saw Eesaw sitting on a sesaw, I saw Eesaw an' 'e saw me.
That one takes me back to being knee high.
This poem is called 'Antigonish' and is by Hughes Mearns. It's the stuff of nightmares for a kid and continues;
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away
Another rhyme that I found really scary as a child was 'The Tommyknocker Man' which went like this;
Late last night and the night before,
Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at my door.
I want to go out, don't know if I can
'Cause I'm so afraid of the Tommyknocker Man.
(Tommyknockers were originally a dwarven tribe in British folklore, or evil faeries who spent their time mining for precious metals and gems in the earth. The title was stolen by Stephen King for his book of the same name).
Night, night (sleep tight) LLAP, Eric 👹🙋
Ah so my rhyme was part of a larger one - interesting and thank you for that. I was going to mention the Stephen King link too in his book. x
As a point of interest Hughes Mearns was inspired to write 'Antigonish' by reports of a ghost haunting the stairs of a house in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada in the late 1890's. How eerie is that eh? LLAP, Eric 😞😞😞
Lovely cheery for the weekend, recall using many of these when I worked in older peoples services, now I am an older person and they still work well.
My favourite nonsense one:
One fine day in the middle of the night Two dead men got up to fight, back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other.
That was my dad's favourite too. 
I remember one vaguely called Rhubarb Ted. Edward Lear? x
I don't know this one hypercat. Here's another that I remember called 'One Bright Morning In The Middle Of The Night', I think you might like this.
One bright morning in the middle of the night
two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise
and ran to save the two dead boys
.
If you don't believe this lie is true
ask the blind man, he saw it, too.
Bye 🙋
One fom my late Father:
A burglar crept out of his hole
And his bag of chink he chunk
and many a many a wicked smile he smole
And many a wink he wunk.
Polly X
😃 great rhymes..clever Dad x
My father taught me that poem as a small child. I've taught my own grown up sons who will pass it on to their children. The other one he taught me was, Spring is sprung, the grass is riz
a laugh
Its a Monday morning thing for me now.
A bit long, but worth a giggle!
I wana tell you a story
A joke
