A Good Sense of Humor Blunts the Sharp Blades of Reality
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Harsh is life’s reality.
Each trial we endure is a sword of steel
that pierces the jagged edges
of our imperfect souls.
We cannot escape
the occasional slashes from life’s rapier
that fall ...
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Categories:
chortle, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
A Good Sense of Humour Blunts the Sharp Blades of Reality
...I try to crack a joke to tame a tense situation,
As a way of blowing up the slow building steam.
With a joke, I see all resentments flitting away,
And watch, how a happy mood begins to stream....
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Categories:
chortle, giggle, humor,
Form: Rhyme
10 Seconds Of Fame
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Momma said, "Don't chortle!
It's rude.
But I won the game!
My small fame.
Can't I just enjoy the win?
Chuckle over the loss.
No one is hurt.
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Categories:
chortle, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Mister Misanthrope
...Mister Misanthrope had given up hope
On the entire human race
He'd bark and he'd bleat as he walked down the street
With a grimace on his face
Each day he would howl with a snarl and scowl
M...
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Categories:
chortle, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Benjamin the Bear
...In the whimsical woods where the wind whirls wild,
Lived Benjamin the Bear, a creature quite mild.
With a belly that bounced as he waddled through trees,
He was a bundle of joy, blowing bubbles...
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Categories:
chortle, animal, nature,
Form: Alliteration
Church Choir
...The ladies and gentlemen of the local church choir, all dressed in their Sunday morning attire, ...
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Categories:
chortle, celebration, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme
The Tale of The House in Sounds
...The CRUNCHING of tyres on the gravelly driveway
The CLANG of the garden gate sharply closing
The CLICK of the key in the lock
The old door CREAKING open on its hinges
The SNAP of the light swit...
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Categories:
chortle, happy, home,
Form: Free verse
You Saw Anew
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Sundial numerals illuminate
Knowing noon narrow shadow arrow strikes
Flicks ‘round corners of maze elaborate
Heraldic daffodil, dormant out psychs
Lio...
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Categories:
chortle, animal, anxiety, daffodils, environment,
Form: Sonnet
Chorus Of Chortle
...Biting through strings on girlish giggles
harrowing the echo of church bells;
Overpowering with sweetness
rolling in good times that tune foretells,
Magick you always want to join in,
tragic ...
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Categories:
chortle, emotions, giggle, girl, women,
Form: Lento
Along Dry Path
...Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid?
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garne...
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Categories:
chortle, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
Clued Into oneself
...An evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds ,
scuppered signpost to a fetid human compost,
faint light pendant on soul crushed quantum migrant,...
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Categories:
chortle, care, character, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
who felt that rrrip
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just close your eyne y'all
and
imagine mine
chortle
well
uhhh
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Categories:
chortle, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
journey to enlightenment
...The anti-Darwinian portal
Pass through and your soul's immortal
This fills church coffers
Without refund offers
And that's why priests seem to chortle...
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Categories:
chortle, dream, earth, god, myth,
Form: Limerick
Flamingo Blooms
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Written: January 23, 2024
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Their melodious humming drifts
through the fragrant night air
carrying a sense of tranquility
I...
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Categories:
chortle, analogy, appreciation, beauty, creation,
Form: Free verse
Mystical Epiphany
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Written: January 12, 2024
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Their buzzing goes unabated
the cool air scent of lavender
in this unfathomable cosmos
where dreams ar...
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Categories:
chortle, analogy, appreciation, nature,
Form: Free verse
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