January Nonsense Poems

Joy! Joy! of all the honors I have earned
In a lifetime of trysts, mazes, and twists
None have I so much relished, indeed,
As topping one of...

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The challenge... to write a whole load of sh*te
No sense and no meaning, no thought waves to fight
Don’t think it, don’t plan it, don’t jot...

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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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Potatoes

At dinner the other night, 
mom fixed our favorite. 
She baked them, 
broiled them, 
cut them up,
 and fried them nice. 

She told us,
this was...

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'great minds think alike'
ha! bull-roar! if you don't mind
  ~ 'cos I'm being kind



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Scribble scrabble scrimpy screech
Dribble drabble dimply dish
Sunny solemn simple sojourner
Boiling biting bunson burner

Wrinkly brinkly water bottle
Twisting words we rarely swaddle
Scribble Scrabble Scrimpy Screech
Bare your buttocks,...

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A three-toed tree troll
tried to trap a leaping leprechaun
with a black claw bear paw trap.
But he stubbed toe three in the trap in the tree,
Snip...

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A Treachery Fantasy           



             Call me, Red Riding Hood, if you will.
 ...

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The Big Mountain

In the distance, 
I gaze at the giant before me. 
Cliff faces, I can not climb today, 
but tomorrow... I will. 

I have...

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Without warning
She turns it
On and off
A mystery
Then not
It’s creepy
And it’s odd
She turns it
On and off
We don’t know
What goes on
In that strange mind of hers
She turns...

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A barber in county Kildare,
both drinking and doing their hair,
cut till they were bald.
'Don't worry,' he called,
'Eight quid includes toupees to wear.'

for Joseph's limerick contest,...

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Fell in love with a coconut
The tree stood tall outside my hut
Love sublime at first sight
I thought I‘d have a bite
Lost both front teeth right...

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no answer here
no answer there 
and everywhere

freedom of speech nowhere!

cause- assailant appears as safer 
animation beyond struggle air
and poor peoples ask deaf ear


-January 14, 2019...

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Dangling on a string in his underwear
Looking ridiculous and without flair
Tempting fate on a simple silly dare
Without a hint of worry or a care
Blissfully too...

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it's hard to understand
the value of money
when cash is dispensed
from the likes
of a bubblegum machine
at every street corner



Submitted on July 2, 2022 for contest 2022...

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