Bubble, bubble, boil and trouble
Fill my cauldron on the double
With slime of frog and pooh of bear
And Daddy’s oldest underwear
With fish’s scales, mermaid’s nails,
Dragon’s breath and lizard’s tails
Tear of tiger, eye of slug
A squirt from the bum of a citrus bug
Look out! Daddy’s had a hunch
About what he just downed for lunch.
Bubble, trouble, had some fun,
Drop the cauldron, run, run, run!
Jessica Nelson-Tyers
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Love this poem!
If I wanted to nitpick I would say this line doesn’t scan properly, but I have been told that I am very guilty of the same thing.
With fish’s scales, mermaid’s nails,
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