Welcome back to our regularly scheduled mischiefery with a mashery of Ogden Nashery (illustrated)! Tonight we range a little further than our usual source, as noted below. Your humble diarist has discovered a few choice pomes to share with you. And it is an Open Thread, so please feel free to discuss and post your favorite illustrated pomes in the Comments also too! And have a very Happy New Year, Peeps and Aminals!
NEW YEAR’S EVE
Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Watch da clock closely!
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!
Did someone say DUCK??
* From Ogden Nash’s collection Collected Verse From 1929 On
And now selections from The Poetry Archives of the New Yorker:
They Won’t Believe, On New Year’s Eve,
That New Year’s Day Will Come What May
(1953)
How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle.
-snip-
There’s only one solution to my problem—a hair of the dog, or maybe a couple of hairs;
Then, if she doesn’t get mad at me, life will be peaceful, and if she does, it will show she really cares.
You really wanna piece of ME??
Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New, but Don’t Get Caught in Between
(1956)
-snip-
I don’t propose to engage in a series of Lincoln-Douglas debates,
But take the matter of paper plates.
The future of many a marriage would have been in doubt
But for paper plates, which have imparted tolerability to picnics and the maid’s day out
Well, if you insist….
-snip-
That low keening you hear is me bemoaning my fate;
I am out of joint, I was born either too early or too late.
Ooh, whatta world….
And finally, because there can never be enough Shel Silverstein either:
HAPPY NEW
by Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)
Joe yelled, “Happy New Year.”
The cow yelled, “Happy Moo Year.”
“Oh yes! Right there! That feels soooo goood!”
The ghost yelled, “Happy Boo Year.”
The doctor yelled, “Happy Flu Year.”
The penguin sneezed, “Happy Ah-choo Year.”
I resolve to fly!!
The skunk yelled, “Happy Pee-yoo Year.”
Come now, it’s not that bad… just don’t scare me!
The owl hooted, “Happy Too-woo Year.”
I resolve to spend more time in trees!
The cowboy yelled, “Happy Yahoo Year.”
The trainman yelled, “Happy Choo-choo year.”
The clock man yelled, “Happy Cuckoo Year.”
The barefoot man yelled, “Happy Shoe Year.”
The hungry man said, “Happy Chew Year.”
There were more “Happy Ooo-Years”
Than you ever heard
At our New Year’s party…
Last June twenty-third.
Wait.... When’s the party??
* From Shel Silverstein‘s posthumous collection 'Every Thing On It'
And he forgot one:
The pootie yelled, “Happy Mew Year!”
Please to remember that Pootie Diaries post twice a day!
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and the evening Open Thread Pootie Diaries post at 10pm Eastern
Please to show ‘em both some lubs!
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Finally, for those who might like to see our previous Illustrated Ogden Nash collections, they are here!:
The Serious Poetry of Ogden Nash, Illustrated!
More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Yet Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
And Yet Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
The Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
More Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Another Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
A Bit of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Another Bit of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
More Bits of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
The Return of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
More Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Aminal Election Endorsements + Ogden Nash Poetry (Illustrated)! — Note this one has an update!
More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Even More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Even Still More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
This is an open thread! Please chat away in the Comments. Enjoy!