Ribald Poems - Poems about Ribald

...I have conversed with the common man in warm and well-worn pubs. I have been a ribald, and a leery lout, a seducer of barmaids. I have been common, the way a city pidgin is common, its scabbed ......Read the rest...

...Daylight Savings Time Ends – November 5th 2023 means... discombobulated, harried, and lobotomized state of body, mind, and spirit triage. Onset of dark shadows signalling edge of night occurs......Read the rest...

...I'm a flower; I stand tall and primp for the world to see, As a blooming princess, I incur both acclaim and glory. Shaking shyly under a whimsical sky in dull tree stumps,  Soft melt......Read the rest...

...Argh daylight savings time ends – 2:00 AM November 6th 2022 Hour hands of o'clock get set back sixty minutes gaining extra hour of Autumn round about this same day of November every year, wha......Read the rest...

...Black and thin boned, velvet almost, but also stringy. Hard to define the shape of a hissing cat that was alive and kicking but now lies dead on my neighbor’s lawn. I would watch it on summer......Read the rest...

...Perusing some recently mindless & unlabeled shelfed works (my recently ancient poems), benumbed fingers pluck jumbled words; musings that had much meaning once but now seem more like the random ......Read the rest...

..."There are fairies at the bottom of my garden"...from a song by Noel Coward. In gardens, glens, and forest glades That oft great banquet halls resemble, On a summer's night, If the moon is br......Read the rest...

...Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022 A long time graduate courtesy Hard Knocks alum, once again yours truly posts reasonable rhyme about shortest day of the year. Two o'clock Ante ......Read the rest...

...Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022 Once again, yours truly dishes out his regular dose of literary gobbledygook even Count Dracula would not even bat an eye nor give me his evil cu......Read the rest...

...The farmer’s cock rises each morning It signals a new day is dawning His wife ignores him in bed Says she’s got a bad head Perhaps she requires pre-warning NB I BREAK NO RULES P......Read the rest...

...flowing swirling swatches swarm&wind bloom blush brilliant thru my mind fervent fervid feelings flow show as expression outward flow flaxen yel......Read the rest...

...Normally, I'd not "Dare" choose just one poet to honor. This time I have, hoping I don't blow it. I've chosen to break my "Silence" in "Gratitude" for "Captain Tom," a man who has a great attit......Read the rest...

...Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 14th, 2021 Once again, yours truly dishes out his regular dose of literary gobbledygook even Count Dracula would not even bat an eye nor give me his evil, ......Read the rest...

...My Great-Grandfathers are swapping improbable yarns. It’s a dream of course, the dead that linger close to our own dreams dream also -why would they not? They are telling tall stories to each ......Read the rest...

...Lament for the Makaris ("Lament for the Makers/Poets") by William Dunbar [c. 1460-1530] loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch i who enjoyed good health and gladness am overwhelm......Read the rest...