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It’s Your Choice by Louise McCarthy

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Train leaving,
Train leaving platform nine,
Leaving platform nine in five minutes,
I repeat, train leaving shortly.
Train leaving, tickets ready,
Tickets ready, have your tickets ready,
Have your tickets ready,
Get your tickets, tickets selling fast,
Get your tickets,
Roll up, roll up, and get your tickets
Roll up, roll up…

The circus is in town,
The circus is in town, forget about the train,
The circus is in town, the train’s left anyway,
Next train, will be leaving from platform three,
Next train, leaving in five minutes,
It’s your choice, the circus is in town
It’s your choice, support the clowns
It’s your choice, there will be other trains.

Image from Pixabay

Cumin by Walter de Jong

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Cumin to my kitchen

is a warming winter soup

starring cauliflower of course

the biggest top in town.

Collected in my colander

Is my tender little troupe

but as I rinse them in a rivulet

something wriggles then rolls down

he has practiced this performance

to avoid birds and their beaks

he seems suited to a circus

he’s  like a caterpillar clown

Walter de Jong

Clown Caper by Monty Edwards

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Clown Caper

 

Once a climbing clown,

Clambered up a tower,

Colander in hand,

Plus a cauliflower.

What he had in mind,

No-one seemed to know

And it wasn’t clear,

How far up he’d go.

 

After quite a climb

He had reached the top,

Items still in hand,

He then let them drop!

Neither looked the same,

Fallen from the tower,

Not the colander,

Nor the cauliflower!

 
Monty Edwards

Monty says: I enjoy writing rhyming verse with a bit of humour included and sometimes short lines add to the effect. Rhyming words for ‘cauliflower’ and ‘clown’ in ‘tower’ and ‘down’ helped provide the ideas for the basic content of the poem.