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Monoku Monday - Apr 2021

"Some Grave Humor for Monday Mourning"   Posted 5 Apr 2021
take note: if you don't go to your friend's funerals      they won't go to yours

some think our cemetery is...

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Categories: leno, grave, humor,
Form: Monoku

Ny Ny -- the Road In the Fork

New York, New York, the road in the fork  
   of the events, the places and folks who've buttered the pork

Like Rockefeller, Moynihan and Andrew Cuomo
   Frank Sinatra, Louie Armstrong,...

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Categories: leno, film, music, new york, nostalgia, sports, stars,
Form: Rhyme

They Had the Wright Idea

Look how far we've come! What would have taken months of perilous voyage now just takes hours of mundane leisure. At your fingertips lies countless options of entertainment: music, movies, games.

But looking out the window...

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Categories: leno, funny, introspection,
Form: Narrative

Comic Relief

The Keystone Cops were funny,
Chaplain, Keaton, Lloyd, and Fields too.
Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers,
Were just some of the names we knew.


Who can forget the Stooges, 
Or all the pies we saw them throw?
Who didn't...

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Categories: leno, dedication, funny, people, thank you
Form: Rhyme

Mists Upon Narciuss Glass An Empty Verse a Gift For John Rhinem

 

'an empty verse'
and empty hands
~understand~
The glass in hand
can drown out ten- 
thousand and ten;
Hearts, 
~an emptiness~
looking for
?
a 
f
l
o
w
e
r
$ . . . . . .
(Oh, Holy Nights) 
on bend-ed knee
enlightened to see,
Ten Drops from the...

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Categories: leno,
Form: Pastoral

A Lone Ranger Mask

I'm feeling rather silly today

Not that that's so unusual

But I'm feeling even more silly than usual

Read on and methinks

You'll understand exactly what I mean

Have thoughts of what it would be like

To be a ravishing female

Rather...

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Categories: leno, humorous,
Form: Narrative

A Lone Ranger Mask


I'm feeling rather silly today
Not that that's so unusual
But I'm feeling even more silly than usual
Read on and methinks
You'll understand exactly what I mean
Have thoughts of what it would be like
To be a ravishing female
Rather...

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Categories: leno, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Tortured Media

the game we play of how to escape a concentration camp
music movies and art
there seem to be people tortured in our media
michael jackson...Britney spears...Jay Leno...

nothing since i have been alive has ever topped
what the media...

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Categories: leno, angst, war
Form: I do not know?

Thomas Campion Translation: Novelties

NOVELTIES
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.

Original Latin text:

IN LIBRARIOS

Impressionum plurium librum laudat
Librarius; scortum nec non minus leno.

Keywords/Tags: Campion, Latin, translation, epigram,...

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Categories: leno, analogy, books, career, literature, words, write, writing,
Form: Epigram

Diddley Muffet ...You'Re Tagged, Ms Laurie Ginn!!

Hey diddle diddle
We poets that fiddle
With poems that jump over the moon.
But sometimes we blunder
She still claps like thunder
And soon we are smiling a tune.
Like little Miss Muffet, 
Laurie Ginn on her tuffet
Brings smiles with...

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Categories: leno, friendship, funnyhumorous,
Form: Rhyme

Ruben's Sandwich

Hey diddle diddle
We poets will fiddle
With poems that jump over the moon.
But sometimes we blunder
He still claps like thunder
And soon we are smiling a tune.

While he sits on his tuffet
and gobbles his sandwich
He brings a...

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Categories: leno, dedication, friendship, humorous,
Form: Rhyme