Long Electra Poems

Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd

There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:

There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...

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I thought you the Master of Expression
               Your verbal dexterity
     Word play, a rarity: perfection
  ...

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The Platypus: Double Limerick
by Michael R. Burch 

The platypus, myopic,
is ungainly, not erotic.
His feet for bed
are over-webbed,
and what of his proboscis?

The platypus, though, is eager
although his means are meager.
His sight is poor;
perhaps he’ll score
with a...

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~ Oh, maiden of light cracks the wispy air open ,
wandering around viscous spaces
like virgin shadow caressing the edge
of sleep… and the days stretch longer,
taller than guava trees dreamingly shedding
laces of northeast streams when
songbirds, orbits,...

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Did your mother ever tell you,
Did you know?
(Some of us have a penchant for the inscrutable)
Did, your mother ever tell you
(These bonds are primordial and immutable)
In one of those intimate conversations
Between mother and child
(Mostly wasted...

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This time, I sing the praise of ecclesiatical love.
  Though not esoteric, thou  followers never allow
to think it beyond the sinister bodily move. 
  O' never touch it, that is a sacred...

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By Jove...Zeus cleft Eos tacit alibi
pact wrought since time
     immemorial bye and bye
temporarily, symbolically,

     and unwaveringly
     superstitions, phenomenal mysteries 
   ...

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Somewhere, someplace the rhythms fall.
In unison, you glide over the sandy dunes.
Each step  lashing sands in bewitching mobility.
You move like fiction erasing your earlier treads;
Expanding with the beats of sound pulse to pulse.

Floating hair,...

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It seemed so long ago, my star was born
Pure white brilliance, blinding and warm
A beauty unrivaled by queens and kings
Even more fair than Saturn's rings

Pulled into orbit against my will
I was shaken and given more...

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The Darwin Awards are a posthumous honor, recognizing those who have improved the human gene pool by removing themselves from it by their own foolish actions.

In a robbery way out in Long Beach
Elliot's handgun misfired...

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Swallowed up somewhere in the South Pacific
Amelia and her Lockheed Electra vanish one day
On July 2, 1937 her last radio contact received
In that time, poor navigation tools at play

In an attempt to circumnavigate the globe
With...

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early dawn cracks the  wispy air
open , wandering around viscous spaces
like fairy shadows caressing the edge
of sleep… and the days stretch longer,
 
taller than maple trees delicately rustling
the garnet of late Indian summer when
birds,...

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Late at night when i can't sleep, my demons come out to haunt me
And when my eyes open with the sunrise, they attack my thoughts
Plague my dreams
So i stay up sometimes just to write, even...

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Wild child,
I loved you too well
and now you are so fiery electric
that you hate, bait, torment
and flare against your maternal lineage.
Her lot it was to plot and plan,
she had to marry beneath us both –...

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The tearaway, youthful runaway
Running for a lifetime, blocked out
Brick wall, but, those same
Old demons stuck to your back
Demon wings like barnacles
To the hull of your iron heart
Beating under apron strings

Ever since "Daddy" left, Electra
You have...

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Dear Electricity.
Could you please allow me to call you Electra?
I feel it gives you more respect with a little extra.

Electra, you have been most needful and useful in my life,
but honestly, you have always been...

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You know, tis somewhat easy to understand Apollyon as your
Crew holding a tad bit, in misery projecting towards an imperfect
Time but cool kids just never hold signs I mean Abaddon can't you see
Kind of like...

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PARANORMAL

   Zeny
   Yokel
   Xeno
   Wizard, Woolley headed
   Voodoo, Vagabond
   Unicorn
   Tyrant
   Stupid, Surreal
   Robot
   ...

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She’s a small little fairy all by herself, 
She desires to be all alone,
Loving the silent words in her mind, 
She’s the whole complete gang on her own,

Who’s never surrounded by the wrong type of...

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There he is again,
he-man of the new age,
feeling imancipated,
from his man-hood,
although his man-hood;
as an equal,
to his sex -
partners, and his god.

The he/she,
with his ,
girl power this,
hyper masculinity that;
world of woman’s suffrage of which has Electra...

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Wild child,
I loved you too well
and now you are so fiery electric
that you hate, bait, torment
and flare against your maternal lineage.
Her lot it was to plot and plan,
she had to marry beneath us both –
to...

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Paragon of virtues in not here
All there is are jests 
Reapers of fruits of sorrow
Apologists of denied rights
Givers of plateful of tears 
Oedipus creatures of tragedy 
Notorious angels of piracy 

Over-seers of dangling diabetic bellies
Fire-...

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