Nursery Rhyme Pandemonium Poem by Sheri Green

In my sleep, I dreamed
And in the dream I turned a key and opened wide a door
And a strange procession was passing me
Unlike any I'd seen before

I saw Jack be nimble and Jack be quick
Jack jumped over the candlestick
But the floor must have been a little bit slick
For he slid and cracked the Spoon and the Dish

And little Jack Horner was not in the corner
But harassing the sheep of little Bo Peep
While the three blind mice got ahold of the knife
And was giving the Wife the run of her life

And there in the middle, the cow had the fiddle
And was dancing a jig with the three little pigs
Who hadn't a clue that the wolf was there too
Tom-peeping into the old woman's shoe

But little red hood knew he was up to no good
And told the three bears he broke all their chairs
Then told Ole Mother Hubbard he had emptied her cupboards
when she was quietly sleeping upstairs

Then Jack and Jill ran up the hill for a thrill
And when they came down they knocked Humpty around
Who fell to the ground with a crashing sound
And was rolling around to escape the King's Hounds

And there by the shrubs the three men in a tub
Were giving the Pied Piper a hearty back rub
So I closed the door with a shock, put the key in the lock
As I did not want to see what came out the Hickory Dickery Clock...