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Best Poems From
JOSEPH ENRIGHT
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Even More Nonsense
When Moses parted
The old Red Sea,
Did he catch fish
To bring home for his tea?
Does a hyena
Think its funny
When for his tea
He eats a bunny?
When the stars come out to play
Where do they go during the day?
Why does the wind not sit still?
Why does water run downhill?
How long for the sea to fill?
Why is the sky oh so blue?
Are fairy tales really true?
When an Asp Cleopatra did poison
Did he have a very good reason?
When the egg was first found
Did it perhaps? just lay on the ground
When the apple on Isaacs head fell,
Did he perhaps feel, unwell?
When Ben flew his kite
High up in the air,
Did Mrs Franklin stand, agape,
And just stare?
When William at an apple he shot
Did Mrs Tell faint.....because of the shock?
When Noah his ark he did float
After two weeks, it wasnt a joke,
He shouted 'Gas masks for all,
And stay upwind,
It would have been better
If we had just sinned! ! ! ! '
Joseph Enright
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Evening
At evening time
An owl is calling
Oer the land
night is falling
Air scented wit new mown hay
Roosting birds waiting for bright new day.
In the dark night
No stars are shining
Oer the slumbering land
A gentle breeze, softly sighing.
Joseph Enright
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Hitlers Inferno
Tall bricked chimneys standing high
Black smoke billowing to the sky
In behind large closed gates
Terror hidden from outside gaze.
Trains come, trains go
Spilling out human cargo
Men and women, children too
Stand about, dont know what to do.
Jackbooted soldiers standing by
Angry shouts rent the sky
Men with dogs and whips too
Forming people into queues
Soldiers yelling now 'Macht Schnell'
People know theyve arrived in hell.
Marched in now three by three
Welcoming message says
'Arbeit Macht Frei '
Musicians, sit about
Playing music by Joahann Strauss
'Women and children to one side '
Families parted now with cries
White coated doctors sitting down
Examining people, at some they frown
'You to left, you to right '
Oh my God what a terrible sight.
Ordered now 'Remove all clothes'
In for shower everybody goes
Heads are shaven, clothes piled high
Glasses and canes are stacked nearby
In the shower room full of dread
Small babies tossed in overhead
People now begin to plead,
Sternfaced soldiers take no heed
Doors are closed...bolted tight
Soldiers leave...out of sight
Overhead, scientists few
Now prepare a deadly brew
Poison now inside a cask
Begins to leave off deadly gas
Vapour seeps in deadly stream
People now begin to scream
The children of the Nazis played
With dolls and motor cars and trains
The children of the Jews dismayed
As deadly gas upon them rained.
Scratching faces breaking nails
Arms now begin to flail
Bodies falling,
Being stood on,
Air inside, nearly gone.
No escape this deadly gas
No breathing now...just gasps.
At last the deadly deed is done
Dead inside..everyone
Bodies now are taken out
Kapos yell'Gold teeth, , pull them out'
Taken now to furnace bright
Unceremoniously tossed inside..
For five years now this work is done
Six million dead....everyone.
'Final solution ' was the plan
'Kill all Jews, to the last man '
Silence in the camp today
Soldiers all have run away
The war is over, raise a cheer
Allied soldiers are drawing near.
Soldiers now are at the gate
Appalled by humanities fate
Walking corpses greet these men
The air an all pervading smell
Walking round the camp they see
Scenes of appalling brutality
Now theyre in where bodies burned
Crimes hidden from the world
Soldiers tough begin to cry
Many more get sick nearby
As these crimes they unfold
Must be told to all the world
Now that peoplethey all know
The dreadful story of Hitlers Inferno.
Dedicated to the six million.
Joseph Enright
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Irreverant Nonsense
When St Paul wrote to the Romans
Did they ever answer him back?
When Lazarus was raised from the dead
Did his wife have to return the widows pension?
When Joseph and Mary flew into Egypt
Did they fly El Al os Ryanair?
What kind of a plane did Puntious Pilate?
Where were the litter wardens on Palm Sunday?
When Judas handed back the thirty pieces of silver
Did ha get credit note?
After the sermon on the Mount
Where did they get all the baskets for the leftovers?
When the temple was torn apart
Were the building inspectors called?
What did they eat at the last supper?
Fish pie and bread and butter pudding! !
Joseph Enright
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