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Spike Milligan's Poetry, by first line

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  • The Soldiers at Lauro
    Young are our dead
    Like babies they lie
    20 lines
  • The ABC
    'Twas midnight in the schoolroom
    And every desk was shut
    32 lines, 7 comments
  • Two Children
    Two children (small), one Four, one Five,
    Once saw a bee go in a hive,
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Jumbo Jet
    I saw a little elephant standing in my garden,
    I said 'You don't belong in here', he said 'I beg you pardon?',
    14 lines, 5 comments
  • Indian Boyhood
    What happened to the boy I was?
    Why did he run away?
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • My Sister Laura
    My sister Laura's bigger than me
    And lifts me up quite easily.
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Pussy-cat
    Pussy-cat
    What are vices?
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Teeth
    English Teeth, English Teeth!
    Shining in the sun
    12 lines
  • Bazonka
    Say Bazonka every day
    That's what my grandma used to say
    24 lines, 10 comments
  • Bump
    Things that go 'bump' in the night
    Should not really give one a fright.
    5 lines, 5 comments
  • Go North, South, East, and West, Young Man
    Drake is going west, lads
    So Tom is going East
    5 lines, 2 comments
  • Granny
    Through every nook and every cranny
    The wind blew in on poor old Granny
    12 lines, 5 comments
  • Maveric
    Maveric Prowles
    Had Rumbling Bowles
    30 lines, 2 comments
  • Oojah-ka-Piv
    The people who live
    On the Oojah-ka-Piv
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • Porridge
    Why is there no monument
    To Porridge in our land?
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Why?
    American Detectives
    Never remove their hats
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Me
    Born screaming small into this world-
    Living I am.
    14 lines, 2 comments
  • Unto Us...
    Somewhere at some time
    They committed themselves to me
    36 lines, 5 comments
  • Values '67
    Pass by citizen
    don't look left or right
    18 lines, 3 comments
  • Mirror, Mirror
    A young spring-tender girl
    combed her joyous hair
    9 lines, 5 comments
  • Letters
    I was thinking of letters,
    We all have a lot in our life
    11 lines, 3 comments
  • So Fair is She
    So fair is she!
    So fair her face
    6 lines, 5 comments
  • Halved
    The essence of true beauty
    Lingers in all-encompassing rainbows
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • Contagion
    Elephants are contagious!
    Be careful how you tread.
    12 lines, 3 comments
  • When I Suspected
    So each passing minute with you
    Pendulummed with sadness.
    8 lines, 41 comments
  • Welcome Home
    Unaware of my crime
    they stood me in the dock.
    8 lines, 5 comments
  • Eurolove
    She turns my love to dust
    my destination empty
    12 lines, 4 comments
  • Have a Nice day
    'Help, help, ' said a man. 'I'm drowning.'
    'Hang on, ' said a man from the shore.
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • Bongaloo
    "What is a Bongaloo, Daddy?"
    "A Bongaloo, Son," said I,
    23 lines, 4 comments
  • Mirror, Mirror
    A young spring-tender girl
    combed her joyous hair
    8 lines, 1 comment
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