Taking breather from their drink
Three men started in to think
Whether breath is in or out:
‘Out,’ said one, ‘without a doubt!’
He began to blow and spray –
Nearly blew them all away –
In due course, ran out of puff;
All blown out, and in a huff!
Second man said, ‘It should be
That we breathe in constantly!’
So, to prove his view was true,
Took in breath, until he flew,
All blown up, like a balloon –
Don’t think he’ll be landing soon!
Third man gave it as his call,
‘We don’t need to breathe at all!’
So he did what he had said,
Till, quite soon, he fell down dead:
Thus it’s clear such things should be
Left to what comes naturally.
© October 2012 Colonialist (WordPress/Blogs24)
Brilliant again, Col!
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You are too kind!
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brillint, after reading lots of serious breathing stuff over the last few years, this is a welcome relief 🙂
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Cute Col 😉
Some people!
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I can imagine this matched to illustrations. How it would make children laugh 🙂
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And I have the Faith Hill song – “Just breathe” in my head 🙂
*hugs*
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Faith gives good advice – look what happened to number 3 when he stopped! 🙂
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Your rhymes crack me up Col – very good one!
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Thanks! I wish the ideas wouldn’t attack me late at night, though – it makes me lose sleep until I have them down!
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Those were no dwarves. Dwarves simply keep breathing. At least Gimli does! 😉
Funny poem, you made me grin 😀
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Grin, or groan, means I have succeeded in my Really Awful endeavour!
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All that heavy breathing here on your blog 😉
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As long as I don’t add a ‘Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!’ section!
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Awful
😀
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Now I have that Irving Berlin song “Doin’ what comes natur’lly,” stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Thanks so much. 🙂
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It was in my mind when I wrote it. So happy to pass it on! 🙂
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You’re too kind! 🙂
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Poor third guy. That was really awful!
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Wasn’t it just! 🙂
Just shows what happens when you take things to egg streams.
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