Best Ogden Poems

Will one write an Ogden Nash?
A touch o' wink, bit a blink
And then, add a glint o' guile...
Doing all, with wryest smile.

Or could it come...

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I think that I may never see a
tree's sounds lovely as onomatopoeia

to see, to hear, just too profound
sound beats cool on worded ground

ain't it funny...

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I revere the witty verse of Ogden Nash,

   Whose versifications are so waggish and brash!

      His work elicited...

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I
The Servants of Free Men on the Mayflower
Knew "abundant life" in Jesus, Great Savior
Two servants, too, rose up to sign The US Constitution
Lover of His...

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These are a few poets I love and greatly adore
Just a short list, there are so many more
Wordsworth writes praising beautiful nature
You can't find many...

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You and I would make a terrific poetic pair 
Yours all flow free with so much care 
Some say an Artistic poet I have become...

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When I was a lad and somewhat brash
I often read the poems of Ogden Nash,
whose humourous rhymes on many themes,
was motivation for my own poetic...

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My simple library contains no fancy morocco-bound tomes,
Like those found in majestic castles and rich folks' homes.
But the books on its shelves that I truly...

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Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd

There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:

There was a...

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A pretty face that wears a smile or giggles on the phone
When sunlight glances through an open door
A robin that will sit and talk when...

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'Tis for certain another Shakespeare I shall never be,

   Nor will I ever come close to commanding Ogden Nash's fee!

   ...

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Complicity is easy for the Right,
one single flag to which they all adhere –
“someone might steal my loot”.  This primal fear
prompts pistols under pillows,...

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Ogden Nash once penned us 
On our social status 
Thus: "Men don't make passes 
At girls who wear glasses."   

But picture his surprise...

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She Does Her Toe

Following are my favorite poets and writers:
Robert Frost, Will Rogers and Ogden Nash.
This poem is at least one about the last
one which...

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(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad)     © 2009 (Jim...

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