Best Jest Poems

A collaborative poem, written in renga format, or "linked-verse", by Timothy Hicks and Jesse Whitehead.

Verses in normal font are by me.
Verses in italic are by Jesse Whitehead.



January jest
drawing mustaches
in the newspaper

coffee to warm the hands
walking the railroad

refusing
to stay put
a child's balloon

spring in her step
red moon...

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I hope and pray, I never die like this.
For this would not have any bliss.
Running to a room with pain in chest,
Maybe from something I did digest.
Hoping to get rid of something thwarted,
Dying from heart attack as it departed.
Sitting upon a white porcelain throne,
This is...

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Not everyone who makes a jest 
is able to make a jest suggest.

Volodymyr Knyr
2017...

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The Gods above are 
playing a vicious trick by 
only giving me

big sips to drink from 
Mnemosyne instead of 
few drops of Lethe....

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She was seventeen when she was crowned the boy’s queen
They had all had a turn by the time she was eighteen
And the jest of it all had her floating on air
But when she was alone she was simply a child again

They had led her to...

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You said it in jest
Laughter can shatter a heart
Pieces still missing

Eileen Manassian Ghali...

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I hope that you don’t desert me
And that my feelings don’t desert you.
I hope that whatever we have may be,
And whatever it is we share is true.
I hope my heart is not the only one that beats twice as fast
And that you know whatever was...

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Laughter is generic
Anger is epidemic
Joke gives extinction...

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I guess I am just a joke, 
never to be taken seriously.

Gave pieces of myself out too generously.
Even though I did it cautiously,
The evidence shows it was still done dangerously.

Ive fought for the wrong ones furiously.
Trying to hold on to that memory,
now seems more like...

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Licky butt, oh, licky butt
Lick your bum my lovely puppy
Gonna feed you a dead guppy
It's belly up
So feed it to the pup....

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I'm baked
I'm baked
One toke is all it taked....

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Jesus was a carpenter, 
he worked with saw and hammer. 
He pounded, banged, for 20 years, 
it was an awful clamor. 
Then he spent three years a'preachin', 
he never had a stammer.
At last they nailed him to a cross, 
nevermore to yammer....

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Ty Tot Ty Taw Tay Tater Tat
Ty Tid! Ty Tid!
Ty Taw Tay Tater Tat!...

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Obsession with what's
Politically Correct
Is a moron's job

I but jest a bit
I do not mean to offend
All so serious

Nothing personal
Old jokes are now new insults
I laugh at myself

They do take offence
To a bit of funnery
I won't be PC

To offend a few
Before there may be no one
Left...

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I wanted to stick out my chest
Rise tall and arch my back
Standing there listening to the fest hard pressed
To click my heels to this fiery soundtrack

So mesmerized and in love with Spanish Flamenco from afar
I was compelled to go to Madrid to become a dancer
As...

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