New neighbours can make you curious, especially if they seem a little strange! 4 stanzas of 4 lines each.
NEW NEIGHBOURS
by Michele Lourie 2016
My mother said, “Now that’s a fright,
You go to sleep and over night
The house next door is painted green,
And every colour in between.”
My father – who’s a happy sort –
Replied, “Well darling, keep the thought
That one day it might grow on you!”
Mum said, “What, like a dose of flu?”
I saw the boy who’d just moved in,
He had a cheeky kind of grin
And hair that stood up straight on top
Or fell about him, like a mop.
Both ears stuck out just like a bat’s
A ski slope-shape his nose,
In open shoes, each size 12 foot
Was showing twelve green toes.
His finger-nails were kind of strange
They ended in a point,
And when he walked his skinny legs
Both had an extra joint.
His eyes – the like you’ve never seen,
For one was brown, the other green,
Stared back at me through his front gate
Just as he shouted, “G’day Mate!”