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Thursday no scent nonsense

NONSENSE NOSE

There was a girl with a Nose

As long as a hose

Filled with nosegay

poppy bouquet

Bees made it home

And dozed.

Noseillustrationandnonsensenose©2026YankaErimtan

Cats

Scratch scratch says the cat!

Little above the shoulder

Little to the right

I'll soon jump and disappear

Meow me before my flight!

When I am weary of me

Forgive me if I bite ye

This is what we felines do

And can!

Besides eating cans of fish

We drink it with a bit of milk

We purr purr alone and like it

Come to you only when we like it!

Cats©2026YankaErimtan/babetteandfriends

Monday tickles

Illustration-Collage©YankaErimtan

It is never too late to learn a witty insult.

A Rediscovered Morning Nonsense from 2011

There was a woman with a bun

As big as a cannon

When she sneezed

'houp houp shoun'

It was heard all over Ocean

She loved the man in the Moon

She rode her horse Taifun

Read him stories every afternoon

And they ate ice cream with a spoon.

illustration-poemJanuary5morningnonsense@2026Yanka Erimtan/babetteandfriends

Warm Summer Days

Mrs Hibou The Owl

Madame Hibou is an owl

She has big jowls

At night she howls

Hou Hou

Then asks

Whoo Whoo Whoo?

Madame Hibou of course!

Who else?

She sits in a white oak

All groomed and all cloaked

She never speaks!

The more she sees

The less she speaks

The less she speaks

The more she hears

O, Why can't We

Be like Mrs Hibou

Whoo Whooo Whoo?

Mrs Hibouuu

Who else?

Madame Hibou is

A wise old bird

She hoots once "Come sit with me”

Hoots twice

"Come let's be three!"

Then an other whooo

Now

Three wise owls sit in a tree

 "Whooo, whooo, whooo!"

All day and all night hoot 

“who, whoo, whooo"

And before you know it

Away they all went to Peru.

MrsHibou,story/fairytale character©2026YankaErimtan