New clothes and makeup, my heart delighted
Awaiting my fate with a date who is farsighted
Your Funniest Couplet Ever Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: L MILTON HANKINS
November 14, 2021
Eternity laughs at "time."
Our big clumsy clocks
hanging off the walls
dictating the pace of
our insignificant planet...
with selfish inhabitants
accumulating more things
buying more clocks.
Strutting the barnyard
sniffing for mates
to lay nuclear eggs.
Eternity laughs at
the bones of brevity
of which we'll become.
A king had all the food at his table
somewhere in modern Africa
power to feed kingdom he had
red hunger came flying in as vampire
subjects wept calling for rescue
children were little flesh-less cartoons
but the king laughed and told them
“Go, eat mangoes in bushes if hungry”
An obedient pregnant mother of five
climbed mango tree to pick food
Lo! she fell down dying instantly!
The laughable friend
The farmer has a friend, laughable he is
The fat ram in his kraal, loyal and cool
Whenever the farmer wants soup
He sharpens knife and calls him
“Come, I want part of your fatty tail,
For a delicious soup tonight”
He comes, lays down his ribs,
And the farmer takes a portion
Laughing and smiling they go, next day
The farmer feeds him and caresses him
He asks not about the missing portion
He complains not about the pain
But he follows the friend everywhere
If the fatty knew the farmer’s mind,
That one day his neck will go forever
He would be wise and flee into exile
I can't take it no more
It feels like I'm losing composure
That's why I'm never sober
Been like this
Since you said its over
Been reminiscing the times we had
Still miss the times, even the bad
Girl, you should be mine
Baby, just give me sign
Cause I'm sick of crying
And feel like Im dying inside
When I had you I was invulnerable
But now my current state of mind is laughable
no i don't make sense
i'm most always tense
and my heart has dents
but why should that stop us?
my theories are juvenile
my thoughts are in a pile
and my worries go on for a while
but you won't notice.
i don't have much
i can screw up everything i touch
and my morals sometimes wind up in a bunch
but i won't stop being in love with you.
no i'm not pretty
my days are most always shitty
and i have too much pity
but my soul is open to you.
"Listen my children and you shall hear"
Of a laughable experience happened this year
Dressed and ready everything near
Load arms, walk out door without fear
Put all parcels in back seat of car
Glance around see left front door ajar
Slam car door try to move but skirt caught
Keys locked in car_there's front door afar
Thinking swiftly what will really work
Keys in car_front door ajar_trapped
Look around not a soul to laugh with smirk
Unfasten my skirt_dash for the door like one snapped
Only in my sheer underwear and shirt
Praying please, "Ghost of the wind don't move_
And touch that door gently blowing it closed"
Running like the wind just made it my friend...
(This did not happen to me..
I was reading about someone
who this happened to so I can
not take credit for the idea..)
(First line is a quote from "Midnight
Ride Of Paul Revere"...