A Ditty
A ditty for my love
Who’s gone so far away -
I’ll sing a pretty ditty,
Doleful ditty for each day.
He’s packed his bitty ditty bag,
And headed off to sea
’Tis such a gritty pity
For so long away he’ll be.
He’ll be singing his own ditty
As he rides the fearsome blue;
But hope that we will marry when
He says, “I’m back for you!”
He’ll open up the ditty bag
To show the wedding ring;
He’ll put it on my finger and
A new tune I will sing!
Our ditties soon will have to change
To kitties and to spoon,
To Jack Be Nimbles and the cow
That jumped over the moon;
For soon the sailor ditties
And my pity ditties sung
Will change to baby ditties,
And bitty didies hung!
©2016, Donna JT Smith, all rights reserved
Next week, you will leave your Poeditty Friday links here... I will have some coffee on when you get here! It will be BYOM (bring your own muffin).
Thank you for sharing your ditty; given the recent cruise events, "the fearsome blue" rings true! God bless you...See you here next week, muffin in hand, with hopes that the coffee's on early:) God bless you!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to next Friday! See you here!
DeleteOh nice, this is the second ditty I've read for Poetry Friday. Nicely done. :)
ReplyDeleteThere are oodles and oceans of delightful ditties this month...I can hardly wait to read more!
DeleteI love how you keep using the word ditty here. I'm amazed by the ditty poets skill with words!
ReplyDeleteDitty was a fun word to work with!
DeleteSo clever, Donna, those "bitty didies", a love song true, all the way through! (You've inspiring me to rhyme!)
ReplyDeleteNice rhyming!
DeleteI loved when bitty didies came through for me!
Love this, so clever! Had me smiling all the way through. Especially love the "bitty didies" at the end. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jama! Have a delicious Valentine's Day!
DeleteWhat a ditty, Donna! I love how it rollicks and rolls like the ocean waves. Thanks for lending your voice to the festividitties... I mean the ditty festivities. ;)
ReplyDeleteHa! Festividitties! Good one!
DeleteA fun addition to Michelle and David's Ditty Party (love that last line, as others do!), and that's a great little collage illustration. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDelete(Thanksin advance, too, for hosting next week; I'll be out of town "poetry-presenting" at a school, but maybe I can get my act together beforehand... maybe!)
So much to do! So little time! But so much fun. Have a wonderful time at your school visitation.
DeleteA delightful ditty! A month of silly dittieness is just what we need in this month of nitty-grittiness!
ReplyDeletePretty witty, Brenda!
DeleteVery fun!
ReplyDeleteAnd isn't fun REALLY what it's all about?!
DeleteA sweet and pretty ditty! happy Valentine's day!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Iza!
DeletePity ditties and doleful ditties, aww! I'm glad they took a happier turn. Yay for Mother Goosie ditties.
ReplyDeleteMichelle's festividitties is too funny.
It's a fun month of ditties!
DeletePretty clever ditty Donna!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Carol!
DeleteLove the story and the word play in you sea shanty ditty - "bitty didies" indeed!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Violette! It was oceans of fun to play around with the words!
DeleteYour poems, like you, are never too far from the sea. How's the cold your way?
ReplyDeleteWell, it's 3 below right now. Heading lower as I type. Brrr!
DeleteOh my goodness! This was such fun. Nice, ditty, Donna!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Penny!
DeleteSuch great wordplay in this poem, Donna. It's sad that the speaker's beloved is out to sea, but she has a great imagination about what's to come.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah, I think she'll get her sailor home soon!
DeleteSo much fun, Donna--I especially the last line!
ReplyDeleteFun to do, too! Thanks, Buffy!
DeleteLove the torn paper collage to illustrated your poem. Today I'm sharing a book using poetry for two voices.
ReplyDeleteThe collage was part of an animation done with third graders when I taught technology.
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