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Plain Silly Poems

It's Love Silly

...The truth is that love is never true
It's illogical, it makes no sense
Why me? Why you? 
Why us, who just happened to collide
It matters not whether we passed or failed
the tests of truthfulness...

Categories: plain silly, love, true love, trust,
Form: Free verse

On Writing Poetry

...If I but had the basic raw nerve and wit
I would show a few folks how to do it:
“Write a line or two with good rhythm and rhyme”
On Poetry Soup, however, that would be a crime!
We hav...

Categories: plain silly, humorous, poetry, writing,
Form: Couplet

Panic In Looted Food Bank Days

...A day is coming when your cash or gold
will truly be worth nothing (so far as I’ve been told),
and the only thing of which folks will want a lot
will be the things hardly anyone one day will have ...

Categories: plain silly, food,
Form: Rhyme

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The Family of Man

...

Let's pretend, that life is one big joke?
We will end up in stockades,like pigs in a poke.

Laughter is enormously great therapy.
Yet some prefer jokes to reality.

Guffaws won't help y...

Categories: plain silly, humanity, perspective, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

A Need To Share

...Since a child I have had a need to share, to
write conversations to an invisible audience; and
I can get quite wordy and chatty and rambling, I
have no problem sharing private thoughts. At times
...

Categories: plain silly, writing,
Form: Verse

Christmas Down Under

...Now Christmas in July seems crazy - I’m sure I hear you say
That has got to be plain silly - but this is the Aussie way
Christmas is in December you insist it’s a well-known fact
But in th...

Categories: plain silly, celebration, christmas, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Christmas In July

...Author’s Note:
'Christmas in July', which is also known as Yulefest or Yuletide in Australia. July is generally the coldest month of winter, so celebrations emulate the atmosphere of the norther...

Categories: plain silly, anxiety, christmas, depression, emotions,
Form: Narrative

I Write For the Love of Poetry

...
I write for the love of poetry,
since a child I have had a need to articulate,
to write conversations to an invisible audience.
I can get quite wordy and chatty and rambling,
and have no pr...

Categories: plain silly, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse

Cutting Hairs

...There is nothing like a good haircut

which may appear shallow from 
            a certain point of view
            but personally I prefer nicely shaped hairs

Yes. It might seem
           ...

Categories: plain silly, hair, image, self,
Form: Prose Poetry

All I Want For Xmas Is a Poetry Membership

...All I want for Christmas
Is my two front teeth
All my back teeth
A Mercedes or Bentley
A life time membership to Hugh Hefner's mansion
The rights to the song "If I had a million dollars"
Cause ...

Categories: plain silly, birthday, christmas, funny, humorous,
Form: Light Verse