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A light verse is a typically short form of poem that attempts to be humorous, frivolous, or playful, but there is more to light verse. What is light verse in poetry (complete definition)?
SO SHE DOES LOVE ME-She says she loves me yet how do I know;
For she show because, she stands, she prays, she stays…
She doesn’t walk away;
O' so she does love me;
4/26/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Categories:
appreciation, blessing, celebration, for
Form: Light Verse
For Arbor Day, April 26, 2024Have you hugged a tree today?
If you haven't, then you should.
It doesn't take a lot of time,
And might do you both some good.
A hug's a way to show you care
Without spending lots of dough.
Just...
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Categories:
tree,
Form: Light Verse
Gasless Beans
Flackmoth wishes his love of legumes
was not accompanied by foul fumes.
Not having to release a whiff of flatulence
would prevent incurring that other offense
and social stigma, the “stinkma.”
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Categories:
word play,
Form: Light Verse
Shifts in Perception"Shifts.."
In perception
Seem to happen
Unpredictably
Immediately as
Nothing appears..
Astoundingly
Without instruction
Without fanfare......
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Categories:
i am, words,
Form: Light Verse
Stillness as StoryStillness
Without an opposite
Appears as opposite..
This story appearing as
Not even stillness......
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Categories:
absence, i am, words,
Form: Light Verse
Suit and Tie
Flackmoth says he wouldn’t be
caught dead in a suit and tie;
but then ruefully reflects he
likely will – unless he doesn’t die.
Either way, with or without,
he still will have to be laid out –
and...
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Categories:
humor,
Form: Light Verse
Teeth and Ears
Flackmoth chuckles when he hears
chickens have neither teeth nor ears.
Nothing strange about that, he said?
“I’m nearly deaf now and in a few years
I expect no tooth left in my head.
Deaf and toothless chickens will still...
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Categories:
humor,
Form: Light Verse
Miss Bellmont
Miss Bellmont, you know the type,
expresses everything with hype.
At a gala party not long ago
her bra strap suddenly let go
as she danced the ballroom floor.
To the astonishment of all guests,
she described her falling breasts
as an...
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Categories:
hilarious,
Form: Light Verse
BEHOLDING WHOLE-I came unto you broken
Now I'm taken remolden
World won't be holden, me...
I am no longer, shattered and broken
I am beholden
Whole
4/23/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2024...
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, caregiving, emotions,
Form: Light Verse
can the llama seeCan the llama see?
We truly did not know
How can he not get lost?
Where does he go?
The llama began to buck.
He saw his chance, he spun his luck
He flipped his hair and gave me the eye
I...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Light Verse
those are the onesThe doctor spent hours fitting me with glasses
Those are the ones! My owner said.
Valentines Day is coming up.
And they will look cute at Christmas said her partner.
I was more than a little annoyed.
They were not...
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Categories:
animal,
Form: Light Verse
Parallel Lights
i dip in the Sun's ink to write the known...
the Moon dips into my soul's ink to write the unknown...
April 21st 2021...
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Categories:
moon, sun,
Form: Light Verse
Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Old MacDonald or Afoul of VowelsOld MacDonald had a farm
With some noisy critters on it.
They mostly mooed, or neighed,
Or clucked, or brayed,
But some stayed
Resolutely mute,
I'm afraid.
It wasn't his equines,
Or bovines,
Or fowls,
Or anything lodged in his barns or corrals,
But a couple...
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Categories:
humor,
Form: Light Verse
how was it back in the dayHow was it back in the day? The second-grader asked me.
I knew by now he thought I was at least a hundred and three.
We rode in Conestoga wagons for months, I told him. Threw pianos...
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Categories:
humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Peaks and ValleysThose highs and lows
Peaks and valleys
Appear to be arising..
It is the script which
Seems as a script
Or seems not..these
"Seemings" are
Simply not two..
Rendering the scripts
Filled with the
Freedom of what is
Unknowable...
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Categories:
beauty, memory, words,
Form: Light Verse
Specific Types of Light Verse Poems
Read wonderful light verse poetry on the following sub-topics:
christmas, friends, funny, kids, love, music, nature, school, sports, whimsical
and more.
Definition | What is Light Verse in Poetry?