Hickory Dickory Dock
This is a poem from "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis" by Wendy Cope. She's one of my personal favourites as far as modern poets go. Never fails to get me laughing. ( The obligatory smiley smiles at you. )A Nursery Rhyme
as if it might have been written by T.S. Eliot
Because time will not run backwards
Because time
Because time will not run
Hickory dickory
In the last minute of the first hour
I saw the mouse ascend the ancient timepiece,
Claws whispering like wind in dry hyacinths.
One o'clock,
The street lamp said,
'Remark the mouse that races toward the carpet.'
And the unstilled wheel still turning
Hickory dickory
Hickory dickory
dock
posted by TheLaddoo @ 5:54 AM
4 Comments:
LOL...!!
LOL! Wendy Cope is best known for her light verse. Looks like she has enjoyed parodying TSE! I recollect having read her parody on Wasteland: I think it is called 'Wasteland in Limericks'. It was hilarious: the sort of stuff that makes you roll on your tummy and laugh.
Light verse?
That got me thinking. I tried figuring out what heavy verse would be, but I couldn't.
So I asked Google.
Whoa!
Wiki seems to churn out similar references.
For example, check here or here
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