Best Meryl Poems

As you are aware I get what I call my inspiration, if that’s the word, for my poems from news items and a comment by...

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Politics and Poetry – is hate really the answer

Why write a poem of hate about Trump
He’s been there just over a week
Though Hilary Clinton the...

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A fat bluefin tuna down deep
Was fished out one night when asleep
He was looking quite pale
Had escaped a big whale
To be Sushi for one Meryl...

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CAN  YOU  SPEAK  WOMAN?

I can speak French and sometimes Chinese
I can also speak cat with some ease
When he  miaows at me...

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Meryl's love was fool's gold,
but he didn't want to think it...
He loved *her* till she was very old
surrounded by her trinkets.

She fashioned trinkets all her...

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I looked in the window and what did I see? Huma was scissoring with Hillary. 

My, oh my, what some hairy thighs. These beasts were...

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**  I went outside and watched the summer sky....

Cotton in the clouds –
   If I cling on these softness,   
Will...

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Bling

I predict that bling will stick,
It has so many variations,
It will be overdone, but still it’s fun
To use easy for many connotations.

Marilyn Monroe was bling...

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BRIDGES

There are those problematically  structured:
Garth Brooks had burning bridges “one by one”,
London’s was always falling down, ruptured,
Paul Simon over troubled water would “lay him...

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A BEMUSEMENT SPARK

Meryl was once mine
And she was merry
She was Meryl
Meryl was mine
Meryl was my sunshine
My way to douse the darkness with an ample dose...

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A BEMUSEMENT SPARK

Meryl was once mine
And she was merry
She was Meryl
Meryl was mine
Meryl was my sunshine
My way to douse the darkness with an ample dose...

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Previous winners were Elie Wiesel,
Mother Teresa, Bob Hope,
Norman Rockwell, Rosa Parks,
Walt Disney and a Pope*…

B.B.King and Yo Yo Ma,
Dylan and Pearl Bailey,
Frank Sinatra, E.B. White,
Tom...

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She was a doll, but she did not like to be treated like one.
She created her own world, a world of fun.
She put herself into...

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I take out the old-fashioned dress in my mother’s closet.
It’s a rose-colored fabric that you liked from your 50’s pageant.
And its floral scent underneath reminded...

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