Short 21St Poems

the world his canvas
911 his masterpiece...

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Everyone
is slow to respond
21st century...

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bird
morning
melody
awakening
sunlight through window...

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no sleep
go weep

for Brian's footle contest, written 21st December...

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Ring-a-Ring o'Rosies
Something to wipe noses
"A-tishue? A-tishue?"
Or if not a hankie...

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T ransforms
E xemplifies 
A ctivates
C hallenges
H ypothesizes
E nergizes
R e-creates...

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Multiplication is vexation,
Division is as bad;
And that’s why they invented the calculator...

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The Sandman's coming
In his train of cars
Think! Tiredness kills
Stop at the next services...

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Ring-a-Ring o'Rosies
Oh I hate runny noses
A tissue! A tissue!
No don’t wipe it on your sleeve!...

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Technology's progress  
  AI's a success

    We humans regress
      ~ without means of egress...

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911 happening thinking ihope the other tower goes as well
a magical sunset
a gunshot bang!
thats it....

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Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
But Humpty Dumpty couldn’t fall
Because he had to wear a safety harness...

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Mary loved her little lamb
Every single day of course
But most of all on Sunday
With homemade mint sauce...

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Cry Baby Bunting
Daddy's gone a-hunting
Well that’s not really true
He’s gone to Tesco’s with my sister Su...

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If the world is to end today
There will be no Christmas
If somehow it doesn't end today
That notion dismiss it...

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Sing a song of Sixth Sense
Haley Joel Osment wonders why
He’s followed every where
By that Bruce Willis guy...

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There was a little man
Who wooed a little honey;
and she was wooed and wooed and wooed
But not as wude as he...

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None inside uniforms—

In waterways
Over lands
Exploring airways

With hurry, traveling the uniforms only....

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gobsmackiNg
                E
                Word

written 21st February for Bobby's Three-word poem contest...

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now i lay me down to sleep,
knowing that no one/nothing watches over me
&
if i die before my loans are paid,
i
win....

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“A senryu is not 
quite the same as a haiku”,
so smirks the pedant.

(Senryu)
21st of May 2020...

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Tom, Tom of Islington,
Married a wife on Sunday,
And that’s all I will tell
Because to be honest it doesn’t end well...

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I like to chuckle, laugh or smile,
As being glum just aint my style.

21st August for Seren’s What Makes You Tick contest...

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Three wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl:
Their wisdom was a misconception
They died and that’s natural selection...

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   58% of hospital infections
     preventable by washing hands

   What does this tell us
     about 21st-century man...

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