Facebookville
...My muse provides me nothing with which I can get to work
And so I spent an hour on Facebook… boy, am I a jerk
A pointless waste of time and space and lots of stuff, all fake
I should just paint a ...
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Categories:
loop the loop, muse, write,
Form: Rhyme
WHEN SANTA CAME TO BENARTY
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WHEN SANTA CAME TO BENARTY
Santa came to Benarty
One cold and stormy night
The snow and clouds that gathered
Made Santa ground his flight.
He landed behind the graveyard
In Dallas Doyle Par...
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Categories:
loop the loop, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
French Connection
...Lake of beauty there in France
Invitation for romance
Of course you know what I'll now say
I want to go with you someday
We don't know French but no big deal
We'll learn together, so much appe...
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Categories:
loop the loop, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Bottle Gardens
...Some pigeons pooped in the bottle garden
Without as much as “I beg your pardon”
Did loop the loop afore plopping their poop
In the neck of the bottle with one swoop.
It is clear ...
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Categories:
loop the loop, bird, flying,
Form: Rhyme
A Political Crisis In Avian Terms
...Richi, Liz and Boris,
which one will the fountain bless?
What wise owl flies to our aid
and pulls us from this mess?
Vultures make lazy circles
and falcons loop the loop.
Maybe they won't say b...
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Categories:
loop the loop, analogy, bird, prayer,
Form: Political Verse
Jasmin
...Gleaming stars in a Chinese percaline teacup
around its rim golden dragons loop the loop.
If the vessel had been larger
a trillion lights could have shone
from that Jasmin infusion.
A young ...
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Categories:
loop the loop, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ice Cream Gran 7 - Gran Goes Deep
...The Hammer and the sickle were emblazoned on its tower
This underwater enemy would demonstrate its power
The submarine, in covert mode, torpedoes at the ready
The crosshairs on the monitor were ho...
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Categories:
loop the loop, cat, grandmother, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Butterfly Soup
...Butterfly Soup
I've eaten mussels
eaten clams
chewed on meat
with ancient man
drowned in chocolate
ice-cream scoops
but nothing compares
to butterfly soup
I've taken drugs
in Amsterd...
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Categories:
loop the loop, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Over the Ocean
...Come and fly with me in my Gothic Black airplane,
count to ten as we loop the loop, call my name and see the sky as I do.
Six hundred miles an hour roll upside down and dive to the earth,
my rel...
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Categories:
loop the loop, analogy, flying, lost love,
Form: Blank verse
Dragonfly Aerobatics
...With thrash of wings our primal fly
lifts off, straight up, into the sky.
He shows off latest flying skills
with loop-the-loop and steep dive thrills.
In this way he patrols his patch
to guard t...
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Categories:
loop the loop, animal,
Form: Rhyme
A Gifted Pig Named Polly
...Pigs that swim the Caribbean aren't just silly rumors,
Polly is just such a pig, from the island of Exumas ...
Oh, Polly loves the water so, her family loves it, too,
Always tepid, crystal c...
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Categories:
loop the loop, animal, fantasy, flying, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Dolphins
...Out of all the creatures that live in the sea
There is only one that stands out for me
Cute looking and grey and on it's back a fin
You have probably guessed, it is the dolphin.
I'll descri...
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Categories:
loop the loop, nature, ocean, sea, water,
Form: Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep - Xl, Part One
...Unquotable quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep – XL
Where the hand leads, the eyes close.
When the eyes shut, imagination is on fire.
What you don’t really see is what you...
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Categories:
loop the loop, abuse, addiction, baby, drug,
Form: Epigram
Sweet Party Invite
...For your (Turkish) Delight party invite
Sweetshop had shut up for the day
The Maltesers decided they were going away
They packed their gear in a Dairy Box
To climb a Glacier called Mint Fox
T...
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Categories:
loop the loop, candy,
Form: Rhyme
Engelbert Effleflump For Dr Seuss Contest
...Engelbert Effleflump put on his disguise
Climbed in his orcetector and rose in the skies
For his mum hated flying and must never know
That Engelbert’s job was in an aerial show
Poor E...
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Categories:
loop the loop, fantasy, flying, kids, mum,
Form: Couplet
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