I have spent months toiling over these exquisite gems only to find that the thread on short poems had been locked. So that the world should not be deprived of them I have opened a new thread.
An excited child on being asked which letter of the alphabet follows ‘n’
O!
O!
A Frenchman on emerging from the Sahara Desert
Eau!
Eau!
A literate gentleman on being asked to comment on the spelling “boutane”
No
O
A stockbroker on being informed that the market had crashed
Oh
No!
A disgruntled instore Santa Claus who failed to negotiate a contract under which he was paid by the word
Ho!
Ho!
A gardener addressing his favourite horticultural implement
Oh
Hoe!
An actor forgetting his lines in King Lear
No,
No…
A disappointed critic at an arts festival on discovering that the Japanese drama was cancelled
No
Noh.