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The Hold.
My shipped mate — the swarthy book an’ ear,
Nine tails whip from slide to schlong,
Cat’s tongue-tied, ghost tales nailed to sea snails:
‘Tis long John’s tortured silver torch song.
Pear root squawks on curvy scurvy shoulder
Tells dead men’s tales inked in bold squids’ Quink,
Speaks of squally old squash chuckling days
And anchors them fast to a wet prose wink.
In the blink of a sigh, by the brigantine’s prowl,
Cap’n cocks one aye, o’er the star broad’s decks,
Timbers shiver all a-quiver as he squawks the flank,
Dubs ‘loons’ his crew, with their warty wool-clad necks.
Coasting o’er roiling rolling ripped-raw tides:
‘I should cocoa ‘ say the lubberly bunch of nuts
As beachy keen to cast a sway, they all poop portside,
‘Earing ‘Pie rates expand!’ bellowed by Cap’s strained guts.
Now I must digress . . . a band on my grip:
Oh! If I were a carp painter, and you an isle glady!
Would you Sally me in any bay?
Would you tarry, Slim Shady?
Now I must regress . . . dogged by dodgy doggerel:
She swells sweet spells up porn the shea pores:
An aloha-ha spinner of inky sink-me discs,
Chest in the heavens, her crow calls the scores.
The deserter shirt-a-fire-ball, she wetly frisks his risks.
So water we gonna dew next my bandy leer?
Folly dodger raised high to sail this curt lass,
Find the berry tree sure (X marks the shallot),
Heave hoe the weed sea, and one thing’s foreshore . . .
The skies shall be your hoister.
I thought I was your hoister? Haha. Very entertains and well done dear Esme.
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Whilst you’re at it, foist and hoist me some jammy dodgers, ye non scurvy lag.
Esme wearing an eye patch and resting her knee on a bucket shouting ‘Arrgghh’ a lot upon the Cloud
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Thar’s a queer cock a me doodle do and no mosquito!
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Hahahahaha. It be!
Esme Cloud sat in the bows pressed waving at Simon
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aye matey! Blow me down!
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gets out her ear trumpet, turns it around and does just tharrrrt
-Esme doing the hornpipe with a bottle of rum and waving
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Deep joy from the thorcus on the pyriebold, Esme! Forgivit the presumpload, but you seemivit the daughtsterly of the greatly Unwin, givit the affirmabold?
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Jeep doy indeedums!Heartchuckyouralley, ay harhar argreesibly with two. Considerwobbly the risps and twurns, herm chuffstable in the unction with the admirathony left behsunderarghhhhh!
Esmeerbundler agunst the Clodfella
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Foist and hoist ya matey! My inner pirate applauds and does a spirited jig and flamboyant swagger❣️ thanks for the smile and lesson in olde English, Esme 😍
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Have a hornswaggle me dearie! Hahahahaha. Nice jig misses winks. I’m glad you enjoyed it Val. ❤
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I am lashed to the mast, horn swoggled, and dashed to the lass. The star’s broad canon pitches perfectly, beneath such sin til lading sentiments. By the port side’s eviscera, heave us ho.
Your talents know no end, Esme!
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Aha me may tea! Aye be chew fed to beets with yar ear forts ear!
Heheheheh.
My talents don’t often know any beginnings or middle either unfortunately. falls a boot – thank you Michael, your clear enjoyment (and capability (or perhaps willingness to plough through my efforts)) means a great deal to me. You’re on my list of those ill be asking for a snippet of wordage to pop at the start of the book, describing the shenanigans entailed when reading Esme and her Cloud. I’m hoping for a yes from you there beams
-Esme Cloud dancing the Drunken Sailor sea shanty with him
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Oh yes. Twill be an honor and a pleasure, Esme!
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Thank you, nothing longer than ten thousand words.
Hahahahahaha
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I think this captain might have been voted “Pirate most likely to hit a reef” (or perhaps a reefer) by his high school class. lol
Lovely word play Esme. Your artistry is always divine.
This poem reminded me of this Monty Python sketch, which weirdly I could only find this version on you tube. The animation is weird, but the Monty Python genius remains. 🙂
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Oh I remember that one! Hahahaha, I get your drift on that rifting reefer.
‘Lovely word play Esme. Your artistry is always divine.’ – cartwheels from prow to Cloud happily Most appreciated Swarn. It likely reads swiftly cobbled to some but actually took a couple of concertinered days work.
-Esme also grateful for the Clouds ❤
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Wonderful! Now I feel like a pirate! LOL I’ve nominated you for a Sunshine Blogger Award. 🙂 https://iwriteher.com/2019/10/21/sunshine-blogger-award-3/
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Ye be one! Hahahahaaarggh! Thank you so much Susi, I hope you don’t find me rude (no more than usual hahaha), when I say I don’t do the pass on award thing; this is entirely due to knowing so many of my readers/fellow bloggers don’t want to answer all the questions and pass it on, leaving some others out who might feel miffed and the like. Basically we just want the glory and the flowers thrown onstage and sod anyone else. No, of course that’s not true, but I am a big fan of telling bloggers that others felt them worthy of an award for inspiration, and I say with sincerity that I am honoured you chose little old Esme for such a medal. I’m still very happy to send my crew (arrghh) your way, and here you are!
https://iwriteher.com/2019/10/18/the-company-i-keep/
Being awkward I’ve chosen a poem of yours that has the theme of inspiration rather than one back to the award page, but I want folks to read your wordage and they’re quite often lazy and only go as far as the first link has to hid behind the sofa because all her followers and growling and mooing
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Perfectly understandable, Esme! Not rude at all. I enjoy that people choose to award it but also, I like to highlight the new voices I’ve begun to follow and give them some support too. Plus, the bonus is I and they get to know each other better. Thanks for passing along my work!
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“The skies shall be your hoister.”
one day in may
say if I may
without words in the way
a skyhook in sway
to a cloud of esme
did hoist us away
from grey clay of gley.
Skies make the best hoisters 🙂
Skyhook of Mancunia:
http://brianfell.org.uk/index.php?/albums/skyhooks/
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I’ve seen them! Not that long ago actually. Huge chains wonderful things, unless they have an enormous anchor on the end (that freaks Esme out, as do massive ships and the teeth of whales). Love your wee verse Bill,and your grey clay of gley has sent me to drag Robbie over;
To a Mouse
By Robert Burns – shoves him onto the stage
On Turning up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickerin brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!
I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle,
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An’ fellow-mortal!
I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen-icker in a thrave
’S a sma’ request:
I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,
An’ never miss ’t!
Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!
It’s silly wa’s the win’s are strewin!
An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,
O’ foggage green!
An’ bleak December’s winds ensuin,
Baith snell an’ keen!
Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste,
An’ weary Winter comin fast,
An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell,
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro’ thy cell.
That wee-bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble
Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
Now thou’s turn’d out, for a’ thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the Winter’s sleety dribble,
An’ cranreuch cauld!
But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my e’e,
On prospects drear!
An’ forward tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!
Said mouse did sue him for the destruction of private property afterwards, but he offered her an old boot of his in the attic as a penthouse replacement and she settled (comfortably).
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An enormous anchor in sway is what ne’er would make my day, here to say.
As I recall, esme, your family tree has a root or ten in Scotland — with Burns a possible relation whom you may actually have met in the 18th Century. Thanks for channeling his mouse-most regards. A mouse in a boot recalls a few fine episodes concerning a hamster and a home in a boot:
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Ah yes, Tales of the Riverbank was the original book which I read, and by the Gods you have a fine memory recalling Esme’s red roots! I find Robbie chewy in the best way, though I know the tongue better (as the sporran said to the bagpipes)
-Esme Cloud sat with a variety of small furry wee beasties by the riverbank
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Lisa’s latest discovery: Billy Whiskers — The Autobiography of a Goat. It’s another great find from her favorite era: 1900 to 1913. Of course, I have an open window to be on the lookout for my namesake:
https://ia802604.us.archive.org/18/items/billywhiskers19167gut/19167.txt
As for Scots, I am prancing about hereabouts:
https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sporran
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Hahahaha, looks marvellous, I see Lisa’s goat and raise her . . . a Supertramp! – http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51425 I have a copy of the Supertramp tome too, lovely to have the old books in your hands.
Esme Cloud watching Bill prance like a prince
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Grateful thanks, kind Cloud! A book in the hands is worth a treeful of birds all a chirp. 🙂
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Very beautiful words, Esme.
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Thank you good sir.
Esme shaking his hand upon the Cloud
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