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Wyn Roth's short poems.

Steam Boat

  • I wonder what the fishes think,
  • Of oily smoke and greasy stink?
  • I wonder what the boilers burn,
  • As they make the big wheel turn?
  • Does it feed on coal or wood?
  • Laying waste where trees once stood?
  • It speeds our travel to the west,
  • But is it really for the best?

A fantasy (pathfinder) bard, travelling on a Gnomish steam powered paddle boat. It is very, very experimental and, perhaps, the first of its kind …


Veronica

  • The woman they all call Veronica
  • Learned how to play the harmonica
  • Then one fateful day
  • She blew the wrong way
  • And became a music phenomena.

A short poem, as we tried to work out what we knew about a woman called Veronica. It turned out that we knew nothing at all.


One for Claire

  • Doodle doodle doo,
  • The Princess lost her shoe.
  • Her Highness hopped,
  • The fiddler stopped,
  • Not knowing what to do.

Claire (AKA the DM) wrote a second verse …

  • A kick in the bum,
  • From the clumsy one.
  • The other shoe got stuck,
  • So she gave it a pluck,
  • Oh, a princess's sense of fun.

… and Wyn replied …

  • The princess's shoe,
  • from her hand flew,
  • striking the oaf,
  • on his noggin-loaf,
  • before she walked off in a stew!

Once again, Claire replied …

  • The oaf became mad,
  • A bit more than a tad.
  • He boiled some water,
  • Until it got hotter,
  • then princess meat stews what he had.

Just simple nonsense verses to amuse a child/woman Wyn was friends with.


Biscuits

And this one is By Poppy Pleasance - a Young Gnome who plays the washboard and clog dances.

  • Tea, Tea, marvellous tea,
  • there's nothing quite like it
  • in good company.
  • So please take a biscuit,
  • the waistline can risk it,
  • So please take a biscuit
  • to have with your tea.
legendarium/poems/wyn_s_short_poems.txt · Last modified: 2023/12/21 21:01 by johnb