silly poem

[Delta40]

Leaving Saigon today and will definitely miss it!


On hokiday
I have to say
a 'just in case wee'
is a bad disease
I ought to hold it in
when touring Ho Chi Minh

My mother trained me
in the art of mini wee
oft I have an urge
ere my bladder surge
not to hold in it in
even in Ho Chi Minh

alas while I long to pee
I don't know
'toilet' in Vietnamese
My plight is so wrong
to look at loos
in Saigon

[Bar22do]

I understand your missing Saigon, my friends are there right now and enchanted!

Your "silly" poem is a very nice one, not silly at all! the subject's perfect (no one writes about the utter importance of peeing these days!). It reminded me of the torture it was once that I went down a river on a raft with a group of fellow students and my longing to pee reached unbearable limits and it was only in extremis that I could ease that longing after HOURS!
Your poem describes the frustrating situation so well.
Life is easier for men, isn't it. At least in this respect.

Thanks for sharing this one, it's always precious to read you. Bar

[tailor STATELY]

I hadn't thought spending a penny would be so adventuresome.
I guess a pantomime and the utterance of 'oui-oui' on the uptake might prove too embarrassing.

Thank you for sharing ?
tailor STATELY

[Delta40]

ha ha. all that bottled water....arrived in Kuala Lumpur. stuck in an internet cafe because the hotel only supplies connection if you have a laptop. how conceited of me to think I could go abroad without one!

[Jerrybaldy]

I could never miss
having a piss
bend my knees
begging please
but if i need to flow
**** off and let me go

[Delta40]

well that sums it up JB. I think I have mastered the art of using floor toilets....

[bhamtya]

dis silly poem of urs
aint silly at all
it discusses a common thing.....
thanx for sharing it

dis dude can write
he has his bite
no work aint white
widout a will, tight
u r right....!

[Delta40]

lol. thanks bhamtya. I can hear the music in your writing :-)

[dafydd manton]

May i mention the politician, visiting an Eastern Bloc country in the 70s, decided to try and use the local language. He took note of the words above each entranceway, and started his speech thus. Afterwards, a foreign delegate asked him why he had started his speech with "Water Closets and Urinals"!

[Delta40]

ha ha. At a mosque the toilets looked like one ceramic ditch for women to squat in, but it turns out they for the women to wash their feet in preparation for prayers. lucky I didn't embrace cultural differences and squat!

[qimissung]

Lol, Delta, and thanks for reminding us that no subject is to sacred to be the subject of a poem. Or profane, or large, or wee. :)