Humorous Mythology Poems

Tír na nÓg - A Tragic Epic Saga

ye hear, of a leprechaun and a unicorn who met in a field’s corner
a he and she, she...

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Three ladies all in lettuce dress
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This is way the flesh ends not in burning or dust
Not in a whimper but a scream
As you see I am an Artiste and such,...

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A total whatchamacallit,
That absolute kinda deal;
We'll never know what it looks like,
Nor how it might taste or feel.
But we'll always recognize it
The minute it's not...

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The Abominable Snowman
May try to melt into obscurity,
Yeti remains a glittering star
On the ecological ladder,
After a very, very long climb.

Yes indeed:
Bigfoot is a leg-end 
In...

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This room is odd…
Do I remember it? 
This house is big but surely…

I have been in this room before
The paintings are odd in subject matter,
Execution,...

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Is that you there 
I recognize that stair
Those eyes of a faraway dream
Fancy seeing you here, on this twilight day 
While walking along this 
Sterile...

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The proud ruler known vainly as Saklas
In the abyss proudly proclaimed with brass:
“I am god, no other but me!”
Then a voice above said in glee:
“You...

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Is having something that can never be met, 
That absolute routine of life,
the year to year grind.
The one that causes the loop to be infinite,
work to...

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Pacha Mama 

The name means Earth Mother
 
Today she is stylish and humorous 
her big eyes show 
endless love 
emitting positive energy
which invigorates every second

The...

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Walking on a narrow road 
leading no to where, 
wanting to roam 
with nothing in sight 
dark clouds drift 
across my path
slicing rays of sun...

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Ogre

Often he’s a cranky,
Olive-skinned, swamp dwelling,
Obtusely-witted fiend...
Only bathes in mud—eats
Onions, garlic, ...(sniff)... GAS?!!
Ogre’s in the outhouse!!
Oh! My giddy aunt...RUN!

©deborah burch
4.06.2021

Pleiades 
Kim Merryman’s Pleiades O Poetry...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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In Greece there once lived a great seer
named Tiresias.  He had no peer
who could see quite as deep
while awake or a sleep.
So he purchased...

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Oh cousin what can I do
That man I'm married to
Stays drunk and runs around
He's nothing but a hound

All our money goes to his booze
Wolves howling...

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