Mistakes will sometimes appear on signs
It's best to read between the lines
While driving down the road
You may see a sign that says "your car will be toad"
That one's quite a croaker!
You might see a sign in a car lot
That seems to miss the spot
It may give you reason to pause
Because it says, "We bye used cars"
Wave bye bye to your sales!
A motel sign adverstising its free internet
Has something extra you may get
Instead of free Wifi without strife
It offers you "Free wife"
Say I do to that one!
This one will put a smile on your face
Because it reads, "This is a work free drug place"
I guess the employees are getting by
With smoking weed and getting high
It might be a high paying job at that!
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Categories:
croaker, art, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Her exquisite lace linen collar tiered in layers of dainty threes
Was not the only beautifying feature of Princess LaCrees
Her beetle necklace of green peridot was engraved well
Her monocle was designed by Bob Mackie’s protégé, Snell.
She was the ultimate spring peeper croaker.
We saw by her wardrobe, she was a leap frogging bloaker.
Prominently featured on her front was a darling topaz roach broach.
It was the kind of semi jewel that would never have to ride in coach.
Princess LaCrees knew to top off her flashy outfit with a favored crown.
Orange crushed velvet puff ball at the top, it was a coppery light brown.
She is dazzling, a jumper among the reeds, the best of the best.
Ribbit Ribbit she shouts, her head a big crest.
Don’t you get hungry wearing all of those bugs? Asked Lady in Waiting.
Not really, the princess answered, as her maids began the uncrating.
Grasshoppers, ants, beetles, and lady bugs were scattering all around.
She stabbed and ate them all with her wand, without making a sound.
Categories:
croaker, 10th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A questionable young lad from the county
Went searching for a well-known burglar’s bounty
Found an empty croaker sack
With a handy auto jack
Ere he was suddenly stopped by a Mountie.
May 17, 2021
Categories:
croaker, humorous,
Form: Limerick
had almost fainted
picture of Jesus painted
artist was sainted
when they would prevent
actions of an indigent
should always relent
did make deposit
racist found in closed closet
flame had to douse it
could go on conquest
find food which will be the best
which we did request
had been a broker
did fish for spot and croaker
ever did occur
each did exploit
in ways which were adroit
then will anoint
encapsulated
people who were related
great works created
he had been a slave
only wanted friendly wave
along with close shave
what some people say
should always use pepper spray
do it anyway
really entrusting
people who had been busting
from cocoon and lusting
Categories:
croaker, analogy,
Form: Senryu
I know he croaks, croaks and croaks.
Like a croaker on a rainy day he talks;
He croaks, and I hear his prolonged croak,
Yet why dry dung his throat does choke?
Croak! I know, his croaking is a flaw,
But another’s flaw now begins to glow;
Croak! Croak! I do hear his guttural croak,
Yet why dry dung his throat does choke?
Whizz… a bloodhound flies sky-bound.
There! a dead swan thuds on the ground;
A king a wanton archer inaptly does crown;
Aha! this man now proves king a clown.
This piece is based on a tale in which a king hired a wanton archer to sling cow dung balls into his minister's/advisor's mouth, for king despised him for talking too much.
*5th Place* in the following contest (judged on Oct. 1, 2020)
Oct. 2, 2020
"The Unexplained" Poetry Contest
Contest Sponsor: Carolyn Devonshire
Categories:
croaker, fate, hilarious,
Form: Couplet
Here lie the ashes of Freddie Croaker
He’d always been a lifelong smoker!
Inspired by Contest
4/12/19
Categories:
croaker, addiction, death, humorous,
Form: Epitaph
There was a lady stock broker
who used clients' funds for poker.
One customer got wise
and to the lady's surprise.
Saw fit to up and croaker.
Categories:
croaker, corruption, money,
Form: Limerick
(Limerick)
Batman and Robin hit the Joker
But their blow was only a croaker
The Joker hit back
But instead hit Jack
Who said "I'm glad, the Joker's an smoker!
Dorian Petersen Potter
Aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2014
09.16.2014
Categories:
croaker, confusion, film, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
A friend of mine
From
Different time
Showed this youngster
The Spirit of being kind
Gentle Breath
His turn-of-the-century walking cane
Told me of his adventures
as a sprite lad through many pain:
"When the folks could afford
we would travel in my father's Ford
Dusting the roads between here and Maine
Perhaps an overnight stay over the borders of Canada's Plain
Life in the car
Home on the porch
Picnics and A&W root beer
Sun would descend over a quiet family near
But,daily routine was not always swell
Battling Turmoil of our own inner Hell
Brothers would fight and swear
Grandma,shaking and shivering over there
Ma and Pa would mediate yonder far
At early dusk,these would be put back in the Jar"
I listened to his story that he told
Surviving the years,
The Hardship,
and the World's Cold
His voice began to change
A tone of sadness that chokes
Still to entertain children who will sit
Listening to an old man's tale that evokes
Categories:
croaker, family, nostalgia, people, places,
Form: Narrative