Birthday Light Verse Poems

I make a perfect dry martini,
I read and write and speak Français,
All my suits, and shirts, and shoes are custom-made.
I own a Porsche and Maserati,
A...

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around the palace 
                walks the emperor 
  ...

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Lady Godiva wasn't trying to be cute
When she went for that ride in her birthday suit.
It was her husband's taxes she protested,
All butt naked and...

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Once upon a time...

Once upon a time, in France, a storyteller fella
Wrote of a girl named Cinderella,
Meant as a fairy tale romance.
Her daddy died when...

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At eighty my beloved grandma began buying insane, whimsical things.
Filling her house up with all kinds of feathers, glitter, and bedazzled stuff.
We’ll have to have...

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I loved this opal ring instantly.
Began the bidding on eBay.
Thought I was getting it.
Another bidder jumped in.
Radical74.
He was fearless.
So was I.
We bid it up and...

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Egg hatches, mother Ewe sings...

" Happy birthday to ewe! 
Happy birthday to ewe! 
Happy birthday, dear Ewe! 
Happy birthday to ewe!"


Date written: 11/15/2022...

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I'm mailed sweet birthday cards
full of warmest regards …
	but with vision so blurred
	I just can't read a word,
I long to be twenty again …

then wife...

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let's toast the experience
           time passes too quickly
       ...

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(Reply to Jack Ellison’s “A Secret Formula”
with my apologies)

Jack ruminates, one day past
no i shall not say his prime
an old duffer - no, a daffy...

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Aunt Leota gave me a snazzy dream catcher.
She is my husband’s aunt.
I love it! I told her.

Pretty soon I was getting owls for every birthday.
You...

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Christmas time is yours it’s mine;
It’s not about gifts and presents;
It’s the birth of a babe on this day;
God became man through Mary;
Baby in a...

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Forget about the diamond Mines,
Forget about mining for opals,
And forget about panning for gold.

Write this down before you forget, 
The best gems you can get,
Are...

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Having nightmares, working from home?
Or being bolted inside four walls for days
Catch up on reading, fiction and writing 
Pick your authors and gulp them down

Catch...

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Summer is almost over. 
Autumn is coming soon. 
Winter waits with snow. 


Date Written: 8/28/2021 
Bite Size Poem no19 Poetry Contest                 ...

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