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Premium Member Spoonerism Poetry: She's Too Titty
She’s too titty to be a preacher.
She can’t even bead a rook.
A rental deceptionist?  Maybe.
At my teeth she once look a took.

As a wean...

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Categories: jerden, parody, word play,
Form: Quatrain



Looking Down
If wealth is now your blessing,
what then was the prayer?
Avarice, its goal possessing,
yet in penury, despair.

I see them often in the store
eyes ahead, regard for...

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Categories: jerden, poverty,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Carcass
The shell remains
picked clean by hungry vultures
ravenous with greed.
Gouged-out eyes
now bare hollow sockets
vacant in their stare.
Morsels of choice parts 
deftly stripped or torn away—
and gutted...

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Categories: jerden, imagery, urban,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vodge Diper
The day started badly as I had a bat flattery on my vodge diper

It was roaring with pain when I arrived at the par cark...

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Categories: jerden, car, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Makeover - Still Weeping

Still Weeping

Original poem - Verse - June 8, 2013

Many came with flowers,
rainbows of roses and lilies,
solemn people came and went.

And then it was quiet,
the white...

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Categories: jerden, death, family,
Form: Sonnet



Be Careful What You Hook
I once heard of a fisher Luciano,
  who sang bass as he played on his piano.
  Once he fished and cast his line
...

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Categories: jerden, fishing, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Herbie Rides Again
Two autos both tried to have sex.
A pity they both were such wrecks!
With great apprehension,
One lost its suspension.
Old banger sex – oh so complex!


12~21~14
Contest: East...

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Categories: jerden, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Scratch
My daddy was a roughneck and he worked the oil patch.
He ate his eggs and biscuits that my mommy made from scratch.
Pies and cakes and...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jerden, childhood, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Sain Plight
Alliteration is awesome;
thanks to thee
it effortlessly erases evidence
of spoonerisms.

Spooky.



Written February 29th, 2016
For the Spoonerisms Contest hosted by Roy Jerden...

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Categories: jerden, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Poetry Soup Heros
Poetry Soup Hero's

Poets with golden ink and pens 
You make us move forward with your inspiration
With kind an honest, encouragement  and compliments 
Small act...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jerden, encouraging, inspirational, poets, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Are You Sitting Comfortably
A gent from the South Scottish Isles
had terribly painful large piles
when he tried to sit down
he would grimace and frown
soft cushions he hoards in big...

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Categories: jerden, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member East Jesus
Picture 1	the message is sent
		loud and clear to the four winds
		nobody listens

Picture 2	the whirlwind roars past
         ...

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Categories: jerden, age, old, youth,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member A Stone Age Transport Woe
Wilma cried, “We are going too slow!”
But poor Flintstone could no faster go.
Not because of a flat. 
No, for nothing like that.
It was just Fred...

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Categories: jerden, character, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A True Devotee
*Hare Krishna, I am your devotee
I know and feel the pains of others
Keep me doing well to others
And let not ego or pride enter my...

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Categories: jerden, inspirational, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Jaina Dharma
Jaina Dharma

Jaina Dharma, my divine path to Moksha or salvation
to achieve my soul’s ultimate liberation;
through self-effort, non-violence, non-absolutism, non-possessiveness,
renunciation, retrospection, introspection, serenity, and stillness.

I bow...

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Categories: jerden, devotion, faith, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things