Best Dippy Poems

My Doberman puppy's in trouble
He cocked his leg against our kitchen table
And I’d only just taken him for walkies
where he just sniffed at that manky...

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Butter 12 slices of potatoes bread
With a garlic butter
Fry bread one side until brown
On the fried side
One slice of swiss cheese
Place one tablespoon of honey...

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serendipity sure has had a bad temper lately

she is getting crotchety and harder to please
as her years are advancing

always demanding newer and better discoveries
at the...

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The most beautiful morning stretches before my eyes 
beneath a parapet of pink gloaming, one promised breath
All Remains of yesterday swallowed by a burst of...

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Pretty
Skippy
Dippy
Lippy
Was the charming, pretty skippy girl
Caught up in a dippy, lippy whirl?





7/3/2015


Strand Choice 5,
Any Form, Any Theme

Honorable Mention...

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Why am I chasing an ice cream van?
I asked, as after the van I ran....
Is this futility? I held out my hand--
Shall I ever be...

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I wondered home one night with the stars, 
With my kingly rugby shirt on encompassing, 
My blue Bec 40 electric wheelchair, no bars, 
Which I...

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The warm spring rain still falls on the cherry trees,
pelting on the sodden and drooping *lavender lilies...
forming a small lake, where playful robins
bathe and fend...

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I found myself walking in a green magical forest,
with bright flowers and creeping vines everywhere;
the trees were breathing and the flowers whispering,
and those vines were...

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There was a time 
I woke up and decided 
to have a cup of coffee 
just to unwind 
I made some toast 
with a dippy...

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Now Uncle Harry, me old Uncle, who’d been a scallywag I’d say,
told outlandish stories to us kids and we became his perfect prey.
For he’d see...

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I don’t want Swine flu
So no more pork for me
I don’t want Bird flu
So no chicken fricassee
I don’t want mad cow disease
So no more Beef...

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George
Carlin
Stand-up guy
Hippie-dippy
FM, AM, banned words, silly putty

Booze, pain-pills, expedited heart failure
untimely loss
bright void left
empty
still

By: Nancy Jones
For entry into Michael Falitico's "Smiles and Frowns" contest...

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Acquiescence of aquifer is acquiring an antelope's antennae but antennas are nit aerial so never cook a salted marsh for a meal. With or without...

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I am a proud Diplodocus 
My friends all call me Dippy.
I'm never picked for soccer
For my legs are not so nippy.
But when it comes to...

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