Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Welcome Home

Unaware of my crimethey stood me in the dock.I was sentenced to life....without her.Strange trial.No judge.No jury.I wonder who my visitors will be.

© Spike Milligan

The Soldiers At Lauro

Young are our deadLike babies they lieThe wombs they blest onceNot healed dryAnd yet - too soonInto each spaceA cold earth fallsOn colder face.Quite..

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Why?

American DetectivesNever remove their hatsWhen investigating murdersIn other people's flats.P.S. Chinese TecsAre far more dreaded!And they always..

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Goodbye S.S.

Go away girl, go awayand let me pack my dreamsNow where did I put those yesteryearsmade up with broken seamsWhere shall I sweep the piecesmy God they..

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Contagion

Elephants are contagious!Be careful how you tread.An Elephant that's been trodden onShould be confined to bed!Leopards are contagious too.Be careful..

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Indian Boyhood

What happened to the boy I was?Why did he run away?And leave me old and thinking, likeThere'd been no yesterday?What happened then?Was I that boy?Who..

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If I Could Write Words

If I could write wordsLike leaves on an autumn forest floor,What a bonfire my letters would make.If I could speak words of water,You would drown when..

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Philip Le Barr

Philip Le Barr,Was knock down by a car,On the road to Mandalay.He was knocked down againBy a dust cart in SpainAnd again in Zanzibar.So,He travled at..

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Eurolove

I cannotand I will notNo, I cannot love you lessLike the flower to the butterflyThe corsage to the dressShe turns my love to dustmy destination..

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Teeth

English Teeth, English Teeth!Shining in the sunA part of British heritageAye, each and every one.English Teeth, Happy Teeth!Always having funClamping..

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I Must Go Down To The Sea Again

I must go down to the sea again,to the lonely sea and the sky;I left my shoes and socks there -I wonder if they're dry?

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Halved

The essence of true beautyLingers in all-encompassing rainbowsOf your joy and laughterYou hold my hand and smileAs we ensconce ourselves in our world..

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Letters

I was thinking of letters,We all have a lot in our lifeA few good - a few sadBut mostly run of the mill-I suppose that's my faultFor writing to run..

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Go North, South, East, And West, Young Man

Drake is going west, ladsSo Tom is going EastBut tiny FredJust lies in bed,The lazy little beast.

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The Dog Lovers

So they bought youAnd kept you in aVery good homeCental heatingTVA deep freezeA very good home-No one to take youFor that lovely long run-But..

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The Lion

If you're attacked by a LionFind fresh underpants to try onLay on the ground quite stillPretend you are very illKeep like that day after dayPerhaps..

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Unto Us...

Somewhere at some timeThey committed themselves to meAnd so, I was!Small, but I WAS!Tiny, in shapeLusting to liveI hung in my pulsing cave.Soon they..

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Jumbo Jet

I saw a little elephant standing in my garden,I said 'You don't belong in here', he said 'I beg you pardon?',I said 'This place is England, what are..

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Me

Born screaming small into this world-Living I am.Occupational therapy twixt birth and death-What was I before?What will I be next?What am I now?Cruel..

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My Sister Laura

My sister Laura's bigger than meAnd lifts me up quite easily.I can't lift her, I've tried and tried;She must have something heavy inside.

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Feelings

There must be a wound!No one can be this hurtand not bleed.How could she injure me so?No marksNo bruiseWorse!People say 'My, you're looking..

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Bump

Things that go 'bump' in the nightShould not really give one a fright.It's the hole in each earThat lets in the fear,That, and the absence of light!

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The Abc

'Twas midnight in the schoolroomAnd every desk was shutWhen suddenly from the alphabetWas heard a loud "Tut-Tut!"Said A to B, "I don't like C;His..

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Bazonka

Say Bazonka every dayThat's what my grandma used to sayIt keeps at bay the Asian Flu'And both your elbows free from glue.So say Bazonka every..

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Mirror, Mirror

A young spring-tender girlcombed her joyous hair'You are very ugly' said the mirror.But,on her lips hunga smile of dove-secret loveliness,for only..

© Spike Milligan