As a young boy
when not very old
I did enjoy
being told
grisly bedtime stories
by my Mother
the favourite was
none other
than
altho' I was just a nipper
Whitechapel Fishmonger Murders
perpetrated by
Jack the Kipper
Categories:
grisly, fish, fun, humor, murder,
Form: Rhyme
The Brown Grizzly Bear is so called,
not for its grizzled hair, grey-tipped
but because it is truly grisly, horrible!
(Ursus arctos horribilis)
This brown bear is gruesome and deplorable.
The amber Pizzly Bear is so called,
not for its swizzle stick.
but because it is a hybrid bear,
a Polar-Grizzly cross,
(Ursus maritimus × Ursus arctos)
The ash-grey Koala Bear is not a bear at all,
though it's nice and teddy-bear cuddly.
(Phascolarctos cinereus)
But the 'arktos' in its genus name, means 'bear'.
Its been wrongly named from the start,
the 'ashy-grey' pouched bear.
So there you have it!
Three bears, caught breaking and entering,
slagging off the language.
Categories:
grisly, nature,
Form: Free verse
G-risly
L-ink's
A-ttack
D-elivers
Y-ucky
S-pread's
D-isease
E-mploying
L-ethality
A-nd
C-ontagious
R-abidity's
U-nknown
Z-one
Topic: Birthday of Gladys G. Dela Cruz (June 10)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
grisly, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
G-ruesome
E-pidemic's
N-asty
E-eriness
R-abidly
T-hreatens
E-very
R-elaxed
R-esident
A-pplying
G-risly
O-utbreak
Topic: Birthday of Gener Terrago (May 14)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
grisly, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
G-ruesome
L-ink
O-f
R-abid
I-nfection
A-pplies
D-readed
E-pidemic's
V-irus
E-mploying
G-risly
A-ilment
Topic: Birthday of Gloria De Vega (May 12)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
grisly, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
G-risly
A-ttack
J-ust
A-larms
N-ations
A-s
N-ew
M-icroorganism
I-nvisibly
S-preads
H-aving
R-avaged
A-nyone
Topic: Birthday of poet Gajanan Mishra (April 03)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
grisly, birthday, poets,
Form: Acrostic
About the lives of bears for years
A Czech and Pole were keen.
But neither had in their careers
A grizzly ever seen.
They therefore flew to Yellowstone
With data they'd compiled
To find and study on their own
Some grizzlies in the wild.
"It's mating season, so beware,"
They heard a ranger say.
"We need to know you're safe out there,
So call us every day."
The calls arrived for five days straight,
But then no more were heard.
Officials said investigate
To find what had occurred.
The rangers searched both day and night
And hope was growing dim.
A pair then found the camping site,
But what they saw was grim.
Some bears had torn the camp to shreds.
The men were not around.
But luckily the female's treads
Observant rangers found.
They followed, killed, and sliced the bear
To stomach contents scan.
The Pole's remains were clearly there,
But not the other man.
One ranger said, "It does appear
We've searched to no avail."
The other nodded, "Yes, I fear
The Czech is in the male."
Categories:
grisly, adventure, animal, humorous, word
Form: Metrical Tale
And it was not till this day, that I looked upon her saddened grisly face that time had erased, and taken away and deformed, and it was not till this day that I came to realize, why it was fated that she be fortuned with love and not I, but upon this realization I smiled...
Categories:
grisly, beauty, love, poetry, sad
Form: Free verse