Best Jerden Poems
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 clerker, she’ll never do.
I once caught her nicking her......
Continue reading...
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 none.
Against the classes, tacit ......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, poverty,
Form:
Quatrain
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......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, imagery, urban,
Form:
Free verse
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 at the mall
Went to put my bopping in the shoot and I turned into a bow......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, car, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
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 snow fell up......
Continue reading...
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
by mistake hooked his behind
since that day, when he plays he sings soprano.
......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, fishing, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
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 Jesus
......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
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 everything from scratch was always made.
That was the best, t......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, childhood, humor, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
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......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Light Verse
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 of caring all which has the pote......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, encouraging, inspirational, poets, ,
Form:
Free verse
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 piles!
syllable counter used......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
East Jesus...Picture 1 the message is sent
loud and clear to the four winds
nobody listens
Picture 2 the whirlwind roars past
leaving in its wake havoc
and broken spirit......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, age, old, youth,
Form:
Senryu
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 had stubbed his big toe!
Written Nov. 14, 2014......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, character, funny,
Form:
Limerick
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 mind.
Hare Krishna, as your devotee
Never speak ill ......
Continue reading...
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, n......
Continue reading...
Categories:
jerden, devotion, faith, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme