There was a fanciful maid
who joined the Easter Parade
about whom if I could
a poem I would pen
then again
a whimsical sonnet
with an egg or two
and chicks but a few
on her favourite Easter bonnet
He thought the name egghead was bad
Did not know it meant bright.
Recipient was my confused dad.
Who reheard it again last night.
Got very angry at this word
Forgot the meaning again said Sue
Thought it sounded mean and absurd
Dementia will do that to you.
If woman could lay egg instead, wouldn’t it be cool?
She will grab man by the balls to sit on it like a fool.
~01/10/22
~Contest: Your Second Chance
~Sponsor: Sotto Poet.
~Contest: A Strand (1049)
~Sponsor: Brian Strand.
He eggsisted in Gotham City.
An eggstrodinarily evil criminal
who eggsaspirated Batman and Robin.
Highly eggscentric in character,
crime was eggsquisite to him.
However, Batman always made his career eggstinct.
Based on the sixties television show "Batman".
Sir Albert the Egghead was in an arena
somewhere 'tween Frisco and Old Pasadena
Determined to joust with the best of the knights
who'd ever assembled near Frisco to fight
He rode in on a sleek thoroughbred, oh so gallant
Awaiting his chance to show off his great talent
When into the picture a-ripping and raring
Roared Hal the Computer on a steed with eyes glaring
Now Sir Albert the Egghead was deft with a sword
Many a foe, brave and worthy, he'd gored
But Hal the Computer was stealthily stealing
Sir Albert the Egghead's plot to be dealing
A deadly steel thrust into Hal's data system
To render Hal helpless, unless he would miss him
Yet the brainiac foiled Albert's dastardly plot
And cracked the Egghead's brain-shell in two with a bot
What's the point of this story? --to tell you straight out
That machines can joust better than us, there's no doubt!
The egghead sipped his eggnog alongside his snack of eggplant and gazed upon the eglantines, it was not an ego-trip, just the basic adventure of living
enchanting in its essence he was delighted with his senses
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