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Re: Little Willies
Reply #5 - Sep 3rd, 2011 at 6:18pm
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Here's my first (and onl)y attempt:
Little Willie was a brat
Little Willie hurt his cat
It was his sister's hair he yanked
On his bottom he got spanked!

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Re: Little Willies
Reply #4 - Jul 27th, 2009 at 7:50pm
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Here are a few more that I just discovered:


Willie found some dynamite.
Couldn't understand it, quite.
Curiosity never pays;
It rained Willie seven days.


Little Willie, in bows and sashes,
Fell in the fire and was burned to ashes.
Though Winter's come and days grow chilly,
Noone wants to poke up Willie.


Willie and some other brats
Licked up all the Rough-On-Rats.
Father said when Mother cried,
"Never mind, they'll die outside."


Willie fell down the elevator.
Wasn't found 'til six days later,
When all the neighbors sniffed "Gee whiz!"
"What a spoiled child Willie is!"
  
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Re: Little Willy
Reply #3 - Nov 26th, 2006 at 2:45am
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This is a GREAT forum for letting loose the BEAST that lurks within. Everyone has one (or more), some are just on shorter leashes.

These first appeared in the late 19th century under the heading "Ruthless Rhymes For Heartless Homes" and featured a boy named Billy. One of the more famous quatrains: 

Billy saw some dynamite.
Didn't understand it quite.
Curiosity never pays.
It rained Billy seven days.

here are several of mine:


Willie took the baby's head
from the pillow on the bed.
Knowing Willie, we're quite sure
he didn't take the rest of her.

Willie's friend has leporsy.
Willie visits constantly.
Lots of friends has Willie got
but only one of them can rot.

Willie, high on LSD,
said Baby looked just like TV.
Look at Dad and Mother grin!
Willie plugged the baby in!

Willie got in Daddy's car;
didn't drive it very far.
Mother got in Willie's way.
Her funeral is Saturday.

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Re: Little Willy
Reply #2 - Jul 24th, 2004 at 4:40pm
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Grin

Willy with a thirst for gore
nailed his sister to the door.
Mother said, with humour quaint,
"Now Willy dear, don't scratch the paint!"

Willy is a child from hell.
He thew his sister into our well.
She's still there because it kilt her.
Now we have to buy a filter.
  
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Re: Little Willy
Reply #1 - Nov 26th, 2003 at 4:47pm
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Little Willy?  I thought you were talking about something else there for a second.  Shocked Shame on me. Embarrassed

Seriously, I'd never heard of this form.  I've seen poems like those you posted, but I didn't realize they had an *official name*.

Thanks Jess. Smiley

  
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Little Willies
Nov 25th, 2003 at 9:31pm
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Little Willies

Little Willies are a poetry form consisting of a quatrain in which the autonymous hero comes to an inglorious end... or helps someone else on the same route. These fun poems are at least fifty years old. 

Little Willie 

Little Willie hung his sister, 
She was dead before we missed her. 
"Willie's always up to tricks! 
Ain't he cute? He's only six 


Our Willie leaned over the gas tank 
The top of its contents to see 
We lighted a match to assist him 
Oh bring back my Willie to me 
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