Ode to Nursery Rhymes

Today’s prompt for Writing 101: Poetry is Fallacy. The prompt says “Today, let’s write poems that are wholly illogical.” To me the nursery rhymes I know by heart are illogical, although cute and funny. I took them to another level in my sonnet filled with sweet delights as an ode to nursery rhymes.

Hey diddle diddle
the Swedish fish strummed a fudge fiddle,
as the gummy worm squiggled over the moon,
flicking his tail in time with the tune.

Humpty Dumpty bounced on a marshmallow,
sucking on a lollipop of blue, red, and yellow,
but he slipped, then fell, and let out a yell,
landing in black licorice well.

While pickles chips of mint and dill
glided down a caramel hill
in a boat of orange cotton candy,
stopping to talk to a giggling frog named Mandy.

And the bubbly laughter from the frog
echoed through a night of neon-green whipped cream fog.