“Pom and Tom Again” [poem for children, by Eva Oakley]

[Editor: This poem for children, by Eva Oakley, was published in Willie Wagtail, Two Little Romances and Other Verses (1945).]

“Pom and Tom Again”

One day, when Pom was walking out,
With Mistress, in the park,
Bill said, “I’ll lob upon her back;
It will be such a lark.”

But Tommie came along again,
And said, “My word! I’ll leap
Upon Pom’s back and catch young Bill;
So quietly, I’ll creep.”

But Pommie’s Mistress saw the bird
Alight upon her — pat!
Then she saw Tom, and said, “Fly off,
For there’s that naughty cat.”

I never saw Bill go so fast,
As he went that fine day,
Until he reached the highest tree,
And, on it, he did stay.

Source:
Eva Oakley, Willie Wagtail, Two Little Romances and Other Verses, Melbourne: Austral Printing & Publishing Company, [1950], p. 3

Editor’s notes:
pat = the sound of a light slap or tap (especially as made by a flat object; or by a light object, e.g. the sound of rain landing upon a surface, pitter-patter), the sound of a light footstep; hit pat, to hit or strike with a flat blow, to land a flat blow; a light tap (especially using the flat of a hand; especially in an affectionate, affirming, or congratulatory manner)