Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

So inspectors have made their report
Of the pupils who smoked and got caught
And looking around
They probably found
Things the staff wished that they had been taught.

So places to hide all the booze
Could be fine thing for your muse
Astonishing those
From the past, so it goes,
Who would like to have been in your shoes.

As I seem to have added most of the last posts to this I may stop it if the interest is waning. But it would be nice if there were more posts so it could go on. A lot of people have looked in so I suppose it appealed up to a point.

Helen please don't abandon this thread,
without you it would surely be dead.
Poems supercede rap,
and all other such crap,
and at least get me out of my bed!

Contributions of verse may have waned,
For some members find rhyming a pain.
But if only you knew,
the amount who do view,
the amount it gets read is insane!

so there. you're not getting out of it that easily...

A few verses in haiku form for y'all.

Drinking on Big Side,
decorating of the Quad,
Band playing at night;

the night before our
last day in blue coats and bands
I remember well.

The Leaving Service -
"I charge you not to forget
the great benefits

received in this place" -
moved even the hardest heart;
many tears were shed.

Then came the Retreat,
when we finally marched off:
"Sussex-by-the-Sea".

I'm glad to see Hendrick is game
I did think it would be a shame
If things had to cease
but he gives a new lease
For a while to the limerick dame.

Michaelmas term soon will start

Squits will their families depart

With trembling hands

They will do up their bands

Hiding their tears in their heart

So welcome to Tim and Mid A
And any new poets who may
Feel inspired to pen
A new post now and then
And whatever you put is okay.................(within reason )


And now for something (almost) completely different
for those who find composing time consuming and so on . . .
here are four lines- let's see what fifth lines you can come up with

There once was a school for the poor
Established in old days of yore
And many who went
Would often lament
...................................................

...would often lament
the tautology used in line two

...it's good but it's not the one... ( )

There once was a school for the poor
Established in old days of yore
And many who went
Would often lament
That the dining hall portions weren't more.

And your friends they would all in there meet ya,
For some tea and some bread and some pizza,
and then me and some blokes
would go off for a smoke
but if RSM caught ya he'd beat ya.

p.s. when the hell did JT put this one on?...
p.p.s nice haikus too

Tim wrote:...would often lament
the tautology used in line two

Oooh dear!We are getting picky - but while I recognise that- I had to put something in to make the metre better.
And, dare I mention it - the line you have added should rhyme with lines 1 and 2

However, you might like to try the unrhymed limerick, as invented by Paul Griffin , (even though he's not an Old Blue).

A person from sunnier climes
When asked to write a verse for the Telegraph
Said,"Oh my what is wrong?
When I sing them a limerick
They tell me I'm missing out something vital."

A notice that came in the post
Gave info that CH will host
A day for Old Blues
In September, plus news
Of J Taylor, our host with the most.

Also posted on the cow thread

how nasty to read about those
Who milked fatties, but then I suppose
the bovine connection
on closer inspection
Was just what a BULLy'd propose.

There once was a school for the poor
Established in old days of yore
And many who went
Would often lament

That before they were sent they were pure??

The houseycoat details I read
On the flourishing uniform thread
Of the smells and the stains
And the physical pains
Make me shrink from what's still left unsaid

PLEASE come back Spike Milligooooon !


ALL IS FORGIVEN !!