Sitting on a rock

26/03/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



Sitting nonchalantly on a rock

While carving out a chock

I fed fish shredded hemlock

As they swam about a wok



A camel in a floral frock

Pulled in to yonder dock

Looking for a matching sock

For the hen and her cock



She asked a man called Sherlock

Who sent her round the block

To a place where she could hock

For a few dollars her stunning smock



She could not hide her shock

And thought him quite the jock

She was not the one to mock

And of his ideas he should take stock



Behind her, gathered in a flock,

Were cuckoos straight out of a clock

Carrying a case with a heavy lock

That looked like it had taken a knock



What was inside gave me a shock

And I hoped it was not a crock

It was a pair made for peacock

Emblazoned with a shamrock



The camel thanked the cuckoo flock

And took careful stock –

A sock for the hen and for the cock

In a little box with a heavy lock



And I was left upon the rock

With my fish and my wok

Wondering if I might find a sock

Emblazoned with hemlock