Gran and Pop (exercise 2, humour in poetry)

Josephine-Ellen-May Tyler-Melrose
(That’s Bobby and Sally-Anne's Gran)
has hairs on her chin, a wart on her nose
and a deep voice that sounds like a man.

But their Gran can fix anything broken, it seems.
(The kids secretly think she is magic).
And when she smiles, her face grows sunbeams
and she somehow turns comic from tragic.

She wears long black skirts, which reach to her toes,
and striped, multi-coloured, wool socks on her feet.
Her shirts are alive with buttons and bows.
With pink pince-nez glasses, she looks really neat.

And sometimes she dons a bright yellow fedora,
when she's dressed up to visit the city.
She goes mostly Mondays, with her friend who’s called Flora,
to Patty's Pastry Patisserie.

She always brings home, for the children’s pleasure,
yummy cup-cakes filled with cream and smarties,
and chocolate-fingers, those Sally-Anne treasures,
and the three have such wonderful parties.

But most of all, Gran, she so loves to dance,
to sway round the floor on the breath of romance,
and each afternoon she’s given the chance.
Let me explain this happenstance....

Josephine-Ellen-May's husband, Joe-Bert,
seems to less walk, and more sort of hop
(somewhere and sometime, his leg has been hurt)
but he flatly refuses a stick or a prop.

He has not a hair on his chin or his head,
but, a big droopy handle-barred fuzz on his lip
makes up, in part, for its lack of, instead.
With an impressive-to-look-at, large brace on his hip

you would be forgiven to think, by mistake,
he had not a whit of an idea of tune.
But he makes descant music when he’s not awake -
and when Gran first heard him, she nearly-well swooned.

With a big, red, and luminous, light-bulb-like nose,
he snuffles and snores through his afternoon nap
(a trait of the men of the clan of Melrose)
and creates mindless rhythm for rap.

Bobby and Gran, and Sally-Anne too,
on Gran and Pop's polished old oak wooden floors,
dance to vibrations they feel all way through,
as Grand-Pop sleep-breathes awesome musical scores.