Long Pulling your leg Poems

"Hey, you philosophysing Hindu. Give me a break, Buddy. I was just pulling your leg. [...] I want the rest of the story. Really, I mean it.” Theson said nothing. [...] “I can see you’re...

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“I apologize for any offense I have given to your wife,” DynDoeth.
DynDoeth just smiled.  Joulupukki, after listening quietly since the meal began, spoke up.
     “Seileach, Ceridfen has a wicked sense...

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Gran glared at the general. ‘So tell me where we’re at
What’s a chicken got to do with me and Nitro Cat?’
‘That chicken,’ said the general, ‘has laid a special egg
It’s got a micro chip in...

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I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise                       ...

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The grand, half-ruined Parthenon,
once a sublime, Doric grace,
Even now, in broken, stone blocks,
always takes my breath away.
The rich, classical detail,
fluted columns without plinths,
to imagine what it once was,
the mind can’t even begin…

That towering Coliseum,
the great...

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April is here 
Spring is getting kicked in the next gear 
Leaving is winter basically a whimper 
Giving way to life’s beautiful day 
Like the New Testament said 
The cold of sin is dead 
Started...

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My father-in-law is 86 years old and in end stage Alzheimer's. I started writing poems three years ago about his disease. I have put some of them on the site already. They are all based...

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What with vainglory vanity and pride, 
I once asked my ego what makes it go: 
It’s not me who’s on a vainglorious ride, 
Nor arrogance a gas that makes me blow, 
And vanity the vehicle...

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Cooking comes very naturally to me
   Why I can boil water and even pour tea
Ask me to toss salad and, whoosh--one, two, three
   Your basic veggies, topped with beer nuts and...

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AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER

if the one issue is murder,
murder’s number one,
let’s ignore “the truth”

“put on this blindfold
listen to my soothing words.
i’m your mama.
no, i’m not pulling your leg.

don’t look at the man behind the...

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You keep colorfully saying those hateful things to me,
repeatedly all the time
Then you say that you didn’t mean it

You was just funning

Pulling my leg with your teeth
That sabertooth edge
do love biting into my funny bone

Why...

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There once was a knotty couple
She had an eye made out of wood
He was as fine as finished pine
As was one leg, on which he stood!

They met in a park one morning
He walking with a...

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CUPID

Free Verse

Hello Cupid, how are you?
Did you bring your bow and arrow?
How is the mischievous and winged child of love?
Be careful as you pierce one's heart to fall in love.

Please don't aim that bow and...

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One afternoon
with Ginger and Basil
we met an old sage
whose voice was quite nasal

He told us our lives
were in need of some spice
which got me to thinking
of my favorite rice

So my two friends and I
spent the...

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We're talking to each other
We are under the covers
We're just chatting
Although it feels like we're lovers

We're not at the same place
Though it does not matter
We're just talking online
Yet it makes my heart scatter

You invite me...

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I am such a pain in the neck whenever I have to fly.
When the stewards and stewardesses see me coming
I know they all just want to die.
"Get me this. Get me that. Did you get...

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go ahead and say you were calling my bluff
tell me you were just pulling my leg
go ahead and say that nothing meant anything
I think it runs much deeper than that

go ahead and say in your...

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Can An Idiot Like Trump Be Complete

With Trump, you never know where to begin
Is he pulling our leg with a big bargain
With all of his foolishness and nonsense
Propped up by poor person named Pence.

Sorry in...

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A brawl started at Walmart today
Some short of mask debate
Her boyfriend was clowning around
Told her this sports cup was mandatory
She fell for it and became a clown
Not knowing he was pulling her leg
She wore it...

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Easter Eggs are so yummy
Too many will make you sick
The chocolate is so gorgeous
I think I'll eat mine quick.

Inside some there are chocolate buttons
Colored smarties too
Then you've got those creamy eggs
Just eating one won't do.

Yes,...

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Something's fishy; really stinks.
You say you found your missing link.
Just six months grant was left to thee.
A monkey bone you named Lucy.
Ignorance to thee is bliss.
Why do monkeys still exist?
You say the earth is just...

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