Light Verse Poems | Light Verse Examples

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A light verse is a typically short form of poem that attempts to be humorous, frivolous, or playful, but there is more to light verse. What is light verse in poetry (complete definition)?

Penury

Penury is defined as extreme poverty or destitution, as the case may be and though temporary it can be harsh – depending on how slow one gets off one’s ****....Read More

Nose Power

Whether on dog or pig the nose has great capacity for sniffing out a truffle. But no nose can rival a human’s capacity to dig up a dirty trifle....Read More

Laughter

Laughter is good medicine. I recommend a daily dose, but don’t expect a miracle, it’s nowhere near that close. Like life and love and happiness, it’s effects are temporary though it has been known at times to be extraordinary. And though it...Read More

Ladies and Black Clothes

Ladies, have you fallen for the trick that wearing black will slick you down from a bloated blimp to a thinly smooth toothpick – and all without the need to crimp ugly folds of fat with daily exercise other women...Read More

Self-imposed Isolation

My self-imposed isolation feels more like desolation. If only I had some sense of what was my offense? And when can I anticipate this pandemic to degenerate from a deadly daily crisis to a harmless flu-like virus? Or as my doctor indiscreetly hinted when...Read More

In These Trying Times

In these trying times of self-imposed incarceration with ever enclosing walls and a gluttonous weight of time, imagine, if you dare, this necessary rehearsal as minor to one coming far longer and more permanent....Read More

The Four Reasons I Run

These are the reasons I run. One. A child is in danger and I need to save them. Two. It is Black Friday. Three. I see others running, and I feel fearful. Four. There is a bear behind me...Read More

Girl Chaser

It’s always struck me as daffy that Greek myths are so whacky. Recall how unravished Daphne fled to safeguard her chastity from lusty Apollo, who just when he was about to thrust his eager hands on her, she morphed into a laurel...Read More

Experts

It cracks me up each time I hear “experts” expounding year after year on how to live, what to eat, what to drink, how to exercise, even how to think! It appears there’s no end to the range their...Read More

Claude Debussy

It’s one of many odd facts about the French composer few know, that he loved cats. It’s said he let them gambol over his keyboard to produce many a tone for which his music’s known and therefore his name Claude Debussy should...Read More

What Not to Steal

I don’t mind they stole my car But they took my cellphone, too, I have no way to call for help, Now what in the world shall I do?. Written August 13, 2022 ...Read More

The Ambulance

Its purring sound could pass for a giant antidiluvian cat’s except it’s only ambulance with no feline resemblence. It’s a common sight especially at night, and what makes it worse it often doubles as a hearse. An eerie feeling enters me, as if...Read More

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