Enjoyed the humor, rhythm, and rhyme -

these are the ones I connected to:

The Missing Moon (title cover is perfect)
Listening to the Stars,
Never Met Anyone as Smart as You (I want to send this one to A.J. Jacobs)
Pembrokshire (great drawing!)
and To Bee,
My Cousin is a Fungi...
Poetry and Inner Peace.

The ones where animals die could go...
and hard to imagine that he still cannot decide which party, left or right, to support! ( )

The final verse in this collection is:
Now that you’ve come to the end of the book,
I hope that you didn’t take too long.
I’m sorry my friends, I can’t make amends –
You’ll never get back the time that it took.

Well, I just want to reassure David Winship that I don’t regret one minute of the time I spent reading this delightful collection of verse! Some of them are nonsense rhymes, others just satisfyingly humorous but in amongst these are ones which I found surprisingly thought-provoking and full of a quiet wisdom. Some of my favourites from the seventy-seven included Eric and the Christmas Orange, The Blind Man from Oban, Cyberchondria, Feelings, Procrastination, The Early Bird and the Worm, My Shoulder Blades are Missing and finally, as a lover of words, Food for Thought … I’m not going to explain why these appealed because I’m hoping that you’ll be tempted to buy a copy of this book and will have some fun reading it and discovering your own favourites!
Apart from all the verses, throughout the book there are some of the author’s observations on life … some just very humorous takes on familiar aphorisms, others more thought-provoking observations.
I won a copy of this book through a LibraryThing Early Reviewers draw in exchange for an honest review. ( )

Thank you very much to the author for sending me this book through LibraryThing Member Giveaway.

I really enjoyed this book - it was good fun! Packed full of humorous poetry (especially 'Snoring') it's a lovely book that I'm sure I'll dip into again and again. ( )

I am very selective when it comes to reading verse. It usually has to be funny for me to enjoy and up until now, only Pam Aires has managed to make me smile. So glad to have won David Winship's book 'Could have been Verse' as it was brilliant. There are two verses that made me smile, as i was thinking of family. 'Snoring' (referred to 'her' but i'm thinking of 'him') and 'The Lie' (son-in-law). I also loved 'The Moon'. So many that i enjoyed really. Hope to read more by this author. Recommended.

My thanks to LibraryThing and to David Winship. ( )