Best Toss Off Poems

Today it’s Pancake Day and there’s to be a pancake race
Entrants are on the starting line with a smile upon their face

Old Ted ‘s ready...

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Today is Pancake Day and there’s to be a pancake race
folk are on the starting line with a smile upon their face

Ted is ready with...

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Give me an a. 
Add an N and a G.

Put on a B
Take off the G

Tack on a D.
Toss off the B.

Now you can add...

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Hank had rode the range a-punchin' cattle fer nigh on fifty years,
Ridin' through Texas northers and brandin' cantankerous steers.
He'd herded ornery longhorns along the Chisolm...

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World's Longest Love Poem (second edition)


Title: My love my all

Edited by Izunna Okafor


Editor's Note:

Out of their ardency, eighteen poets and poetry lovers identified with the...

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"I have sparklies in my eyes", says my daughter
I must agree for conversation fodder
You do have twinkles I can see
It's oh so nice when you...

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...Actually polish with a furniture polish...
Not use it as an air freshener.
...Notice the surrounding wildlife...
Pick any room of your house.
...Finally do laundry...
And separate the colors.
...Strike...

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Yes, “going with the flow” has found new meaning on Hawaii’s coast
The lava there from many fissures covers earth like jam on toast
Though driven just...

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We were cousins and had grown up
Close friends, living not far apart.
When I was nine and he was eight,
(His sister and my brothers were younger)
We...

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Once upon a time
there was a mean ol' spider
who bought his socks
in pairs of 4

He bristled with poison
and had a nasty temperment
Spreading fear and killing...

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oh im taking all the passages 
the cobble stone pathways
take back in time oh 
take me to the days
where the ships all sank each other
as...

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A backyard planter bursting with
Tomatoes on the vine
Provided treats for several mouths
And one of them was mine.

My son’s the one who grew ‘em.
His daughter and...

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Writing to you about the evil I enjoy.
More like knowing the hate I have for fever.
On this sick bed I curse fever.
For employing my body...

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Something I said or did not say?
Something I did or did not do?
Don't get the painful game you play
I want to remain friends with you

So...

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I lie in bed, almost asleep,
But my mind has other ideas
And begins to mull over
Everything in my life!
Suddenly, I am wide awake.
I turn on my...

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