Mortimer Poems - Poems about Mortimer

'Post Mortem'

...
  After poor old Mortimer was dead

    by his grave ~ a flowerbed...

Immortal

...“Love wishes to perpetuate itself. 
Love wishes for immortality”. -  Mortimer Adler


I feel my soul is carried away by the tide of time
from my being transiently rooted in the present
...

Take Care of Yourself First

...Little Mortimer Dragon was selfless, heroic and brave.
He saved me! He is a hero! The villager would rave.
He depleted his energy, lost a large bit of his power.
Came home to nap, eat a bite, revi...

Names From Yesteryear

...Hortense and Gertrude
   Priscilla, Imogene
Once-popular names
   no more to be seen

Isadore, Cornelius
  Cyrus and Mortimer
Back in the day such
  names courted her

You never know though...

Our Friendship Story

...Our friendship is our pride, 
Boundless love story, 
Extraordinary rhapsody, 
Metaphorically not satirically, 
Chronological not nostalgically..
Our costumes consume cost...
This is not fancifu...

Mort's Rolling In the Dough

...Mortimer found school to be a great big bore
Finished twelfth grade, couldn't take any more
   Didn't want 'nine-to-five'
   How would he ever thrive
Mort's smart ~ Opened up a cannabis store...

Bully For You

...Loosely based on the movie Arsenic and Old Lace.
I’m sure you’ll excuse the rambling for that is what
the movie was like — an adrenal rush of dark and crazy!

Teddy Roosevelt: “Bully for you.”

...

Mobbed By Mice

...If you have ever been mobbed by mice 
You will not easily forget it.
There is a certain smell they have
Their fur is a texture you will never forget
As long as you live

They can put perfume on...

Mortimer Adler

...Like emperor Constantine
You were a convert 
to Catholicism on the deathbed.
Fascinated by Thomas Acquinas

and your other heroes:
Etienne Gilson, Jacqes Maritain,
Martin D’Arcy.
You consider...

Biology 101

...Professor Mortimer Snurd
   Once dissected a turd.
His findings couldn't be analyzed
   They'd already fertilized....

Tribute To the Snurds

...I'd like to take this opportunity to express a full measure of sympathy
To the family of the late Mortimer Snurd, an amputee whose plight moved us 
  to gimpathy
And to his wife Anabelle Fofoofnik...

Firehouse Blues

...When Mortimer Manders collapsed in the street,
his daughter, Muriel, was with him.
Though now seventy-five,
he’d continued to thrive,
in spite of the irregular rhythm

his heart was now keeping...

Mortimer Snerd

...I have pondered the presidential herd,

   Of both parties and find them quite absurd!

      Since I have a choice,

         I'll express my voice,

            And will cast my vote for Mo...

Life of the Imagination

...Life Of The Imagination

Imagination has never had a bath or shower
It does not know of soap
Plays with itself for hours
Hanging from a rope
Hopes for handouts
There are no places it can’t go
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A Fountain Pen That Writes Under Whipped Cream

...
Inventing a fountain pen that writes under whipped cream.
That’s what Moe and Larry were doing in Shemp’s dream.
Uncle Mortimer would not let Shemp pass through heaven’s gate.
Moe and La...

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