Grins and Groaners: Folio 4
......more stuff and nonsense...
Q: Why would it be a good thing if wood were used as money?
A: It grows on trees.
Q: Who was the star of last year's Christmas Drag Show?
A: Felice Navidude.
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Categories:
revue, humor,
Form: I do not know?
Songs Paused in the Tree
...Since the elderly king greatly loved music, his court esteemed it, too;
As sun and moon smile on myriad colors, during the butterfly revue.
The king was well loved and jolly, with the que...
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Categories:
revue, beauty, fantasy, happiness, music,
Form: Couplet
Earth's Eulogy Unread
...I lift and rise to being chased,
pops half-way, till full, beamed round-faced,
a fire host heightened its facade,
casting daylight shadows abroad.
Cool Earth plunged hot by its keep...
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Categories:
revue, eulogy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Red Shoes
...In a whimsical world of witty wonder,
Where laughter lingers, lost not in thunder,
There danced a dandy with a dapper flair,
Sporting red shoes, a vivid vision, rare.
He pranced in patterns,...
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Categories:
revue, dance, funny, humorous, red,
Form: Alliteration
hopping glad
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there once was a cook kangaroo
who escaped an animal zoo
but her hopping baked gin
did fortunately win
head chef at a circus revue.
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Categories:
revue, animal, destiny, food, fun,
Form: Limerick
Daystar
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Dream-like is she, gleaming softly
through gauze of faded moon
Auroral her flame imbued with wings so
regal
Yellowing sky's revue through wisps
of haloed dew--
Somehow, she ...
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Categories:
revue, blessing, morning,
Form: Acrostic
Gemini Garden, Silent One
...“a mute tongue is a slave to silence” - Silent One
You rouse the proud, sung praise all wowed
Who draws the crowd and plays so loud?
Sway befits a rock star jam
Baby, it'...
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Categories:
revue, appreciation,
Form: Lyric
Moulin Rouge
...Moulin Rouge
The greens and pinks magnetize to my eye
Like flowers abloom in a field espied,
Overwhelming creation’s invention
With beauty of grandiose dimension,
Shifting to the wind’s...
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Categories:
revue, art, dance, french, history,
Form: Verse
When Old Friends Awake
...When old friends awake
I have lost my voice totally, not even a whisper
I pretend to stay on stage lift my left arm pretend there is a skull in my palm
“Is this you Yorick? It's difficult to te...
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Categories:
revue, absence, allusion, anger, bangla,
Form: Blank verse
Stevie Ray Vaughan Inspiration
...Stevie Ray's guitar spurred the 1980s blues boom.
He wasn't like any other guitarist.
Inspired by Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Albert Collins...
He linked blues and rock in the late 196...
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Categories:
revue, analogy, appreciation, beauty, history,
Form: Bio
Jello
...Jello is a mellow way of filling up a tub
A smashing way of chilling up an ordinary scrub
The jello is a fellow’s way of doing something new
A rock and roll adventure in a musical revue
I chose...
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Categories:
revue, appreciation, food,
Form: Rhyme
Life Should Be Meaningful
...LIFE SHOULD BE MEANINGFUL:
Welcome to a new day...!
Look at life here on earth today,
It will definitely grow old,someday.
Even if it doesn't ... Just to say,
Then it would die young along the...
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Categories:
revue, adventure, age, happiness, life,
Form: Personification
Renewal
...In the mail, a supplication:
Time now to renew.
Your yearly fee for discount tix
Is very shortly due.
I see a lot of Broadway shows
And small productions, too.
The TDF* sells tickets
To boos...
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Categories:
revue, how i feel, new
Form: Rhyme
Helpers In the Garden
...My garden calls to earths creatures one and all
No matter how big, no matter how very small
Amid ferns green lace to show her humble face
With rows of flowers and dainty plots of grace...
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Categories:
revue, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme
The Color of Music
...Baby birds cheeping in treetops high, mellow yellow,
Whippoorwills' song when even is nigh, red sunset glow,
Raucous crows in the hot noon sun, deep orange gold,
Humming bees in blazing wildflower...
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Categories:
revue, bird, color, flower, green,
Form: Rhyme
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