Galumphing Poems

Craven Cupidity

...Craven cupidity, contemptible crow
Your talking is squawking as black as your soul

If birds of a feather would gather your hem 
A collection of seamstresses darker than them

Would weave from ...

Lure of Glistening Dew

...
Written: January 26, 2025
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In the pale autumn sun,  
a radiant shimmer thrives, 
A solitary strand,  
a seascape draped in mist...

After drenching biblical rainfall

...After drenching biblical rainfall...
verdant green acres covered the planet of the apes
like a petticoat junction
donning barrel of skinny dipping monkeys.

Once drought stricken vast landscape
...

Limitless and Sequencing

...Infinite bottomless
Infinite limitless
Limitless stamina
Limitless energy
Energy overload
Energy burdening
Burdening burgeoning
Burdening flourishing
Flourishing enterprise
Flourishing compa...

Clothes Make the Man

...Timendi causa est nescire (Ignorance is the cause of fear).
– Seneca


About two thousand years ago,
when Quintilianus said it
(at least, that’s who gets the credit),
his paradigm was apropos:...

The Tale of the Awesome Winsome Knight

...THE TALE OF THE AWSOME WINSOME KNIGHT
                    © 2021 John T Haupt

Armed with luminosity, 
    And with epiphanous numinosity,
With snicker-snacks, 
     And a few quick hacks
The ...

Body Whispering

...Do you gurgle, grunt, and gripe,
grind the soft bones of thought dry?

You need some orchestration,
some instrumental tuning.
Play with those ad hoc glottalized vibes,
harmonize.

The body, t...

Lewis

...
He said that it was brillig, but what did that word mean
And slithy is a word that I had never seen
If you gyre and gimble, what do you really do
I guess when in the wabe, you seek th...

Nudnick

...Nudnick
By Sy Roth

Self, I say
Self,
Wake up.
Your ganglions 
Are asleep again.  
Wakey, wakey…
Those around you, nudnick,
Are whirling dervishes
Those who come and go 
In the Speakeasys...

The Boys In the Back

...The Boys in The Back
By Sy Roth

The right hand turned the waters 360 degrees
Then another willful rotation
Until the bubbling chicken-fatty waters splashed over the sides
While the boys in the...

Schvitzing For More N Sixty Hours Without Electricity

...Schvitzing for more'n sixty hours without electricity
(visit https://www.aol.com/?ncid=
crosssellusaolc00000003 - for further details)

Courtesy rare derecho
killed four people
nearly forty eig...

Knees of Enemies of Progress

...Teeming and brimming with green bile
Enemies of progress plot from an evil thought
The downfall from a high wall isle
Against a progress protagonist caught

Up in an intrigue driven in seas of d...

Hurry Not, Worry Not

...Hurry not, tarry not, worry not
For life yours to live, yours to squander
If you slot the wrong plot
Swimming with a groggy gander 

To plunder the best resources life offers
In the best years ...

Gangly Ghosts

...Gangly ghosts galumphing in our lives 
Gamble
With outstretched knives and chives
Fumble and mumble

Encouraging us crates of lager to quaff and drink
Tomes of *********** for our eyes to dabbl...

Two Besotted Beggars In Our Lives

...Prejudice and malice
Both besotted beggars
Gamboling, galumphing, griping and gripping a solstice
In limpid lives whose tigers and daggers

Stagger, simulate and strut along
Craven
Oblong, wro...

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