Tuesday 8 February 2011

A year of weekly Magpies!

Fanny and John.

















“What did ye do
Wee house of blue?

Cold and lonely
Why you only?

Car space empty
Spaces plenty?

Where… “

Shut up and give me the key, Keats!
I’m freezing my arse off out here!

Prompt courtesy Magpie Tales.

31 comments:

  1. Funny!

    And I know this scene all too well :)

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  2. Very clever and very clever! :o)

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  3. Thanks for the laughter, Stafford.

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  4. so....you and Keats in the car together?

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  5. har! now- who the heck cleared off the sidewalk but left the steps covered with snow....now there's a mystery!

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  6. Cute spin on the prompt, Ford. You, Keats, and the little green house...

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  7. As usual I am in stitches with your verse!

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  8. I apologise for my colour blindness... would have sworn on a stack of colour charts it was blue!
    So...
    What does it mean
    Wee house of green?
    (now read on)

    After John Keats died, Fanny, a practical woman, married and had three children... Man does not live on poetry alone!

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  9. * chuckle *....in shades of turwk.....terqui.....torkey......aquamarine!

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  10. Stafford, are you becoming exhausted by these wintry prompts amidst all this water and humidity? Geography is a very powerful influence. Enjoyed this one snappy and bouncy.

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  11. I know why the sidewalk's shovelled. It's coz it's American, where they sue your arse off if you don't shovel your patch and then some dillbrain trips and falls (which $$$-hungry dudes no doubt go round looking to do!) Not very poetic, this comment, but there y'are! (Oh, I was born there, so I'm allowed to throw stones.)

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  12. I like your house green or blue!

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  13. An all too rare funny one! And it isn't even Winter for you, is it?

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  14. Old blue eyes ... nice recovery!

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  15. Wonderful! Warm and Whimsical... ironically.

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  16. hahahahha....loved this one!!!
    Fanny and Johnny???!? Too much!! Very clever, Stafford :))

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  17. it is a forlorn little place! you made me laugh though, which is always a good thing.

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  18. Bwahahahahaha - that would be right.

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  19. Stafford,
    You may be delighted to know that yesterday morning I locked myself out of the house and garage as well. And the wife was away to Florida.
    Write me an appropriate limrick if you please. :)
    rel

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  20. Outhouse Blues.
    Rel’s wife went to where it was sunny
    And left him locked out, silly bunny.
    So what did he do?
    He moved into the loo,
    And spent the whole week on the dunny!

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  21. Stafford,
    Thank you,
    I knew you'd be up for something witty....
    rel

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  22. What a great prompt Mel .... Mr. Ray rises to the challenge once again.

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