Short Encountered Poems

Perplexed cross-eyed peeper, encountered grim reaper.
Unsnapped devil’s raincoat, castrated cork afloat....

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A lady out walking her dog
Encountered a pot-belly hog
A quick-fingered boink
Deflated its oink
So Harley roared off in the smog...

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A thief in search of clam chowder
Instead encountered a clowder
A pussy is nice
When its chasing mice
So the thief just took a powder...

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A wanton young girl on the loose
Encountered a big, horny moose
It mounted behind
And what did she find?
It really was a silly goose!...

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On Saturday, the L A Rams
Encountered the Monterey Clams
With no and, if, or but
It was open and shut
The Sopranos limped home like lambs!...

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I once saw a bear on the prowl
Who, one night encountered an owl
The owl said  "Who"
The Bear answered "Pooh"
I knew something smelled a bit fowl...

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There once was a man name Adam
With Eve whom he always called Madam
They encountered a snake
And made a mistake
The Devil smiled for he knew he had ‘em...

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There once was an elephant's trunk
That accidentally encountered a skunk
He sneezed 40 times
Til he rang his own chimes
Then cried cause he knew how he stunk...

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LIVELINESS
encouraging
  perception
the
  irrepressible
unearthed
in
exuberance
encountered
in a
natural
  manner
so
engaging
enlivens
the
  soul...

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A novice goose farmer named Sanders,
Once wrote for advice from Ann Landers.
He'd encountered a block
To increasing his flock:
He didn't know gooses from ganders....

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There once was a witch in Vancouver
Who traded her broom for a hoover.
She encountered a glitch
When she turned on the switch
'Cause the hoover took off and pursued her....

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Why am I so poor
Oh, you aren't
You have 
A family
A house
A car
An occupation
Feelings and love 
And there are so many
Poorer 
And poorest 
You haven't encountered...

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As soon as we got to the county fair
The country odor got through my nose hair
Coz above some milk pails
We encountered cow tails
Which filled our senses with their dairy-air...

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Roy and Rita Snow encountered a great scare
A hair dryer in the hands of a hungry hare
Their noses were at stake
Rita began to shake
Roy chased him away with a broom and frosty stare...

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Scientific productions
Man's destructions
Greeds brought them together
When encountered
They exploded
Producing debris 
Called pollutions
For the nature
And the man
And their greeds too...

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Most I've encountered have not cared at all about this mortal shell except as means of judgement and to gain comradarie with others by searing hot metal into my skin ,branding me & shaming my sin...

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A flamenco dancer in Spain
encountered a nun in the rain.
He shouted,' Olé.'
Her fingers astray, 
she grunted, 'I'm coming again.'

Just some silliness, written today for Andrea's limerick contest...

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Around fires of desire -- danced she
Dark-eyed beauty captures his soul
Castanets and stormy feet
Flailed to fiery beat 
Encountered heart tones
Chords--Unrobed heat
Guitar strings
Kissed by
Song...

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Cinderella was a starry-eyed lass
Dancing at the ball in shoes made of glass
While bolting for the doors
She encountered waxed floors
And unfortunately fell on her A$$!



For: SKAT*
SHOES contest...

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Walking on the soft sand, forming open arms
Hovering towards the wind, wings able to fly
Under the mighty rain, obliterating from the outer harm
Seeking the Truth, I encountered humanity from my private- eye....

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PASSIONS
progressed
  info
of
urgent fruitfulness
encountered
in
 abundant
profusion
yet
  mysterious
in substance
obsessed
&elaborate
sheltering
in a
wilderness
of shrunken
shaped
  instincts...

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Uncle Jim encountered a prostitute
Southwest of the city of Institute
He paid his money,
She called him "honey,"
But then discovered him much too hirsute.

written July 3, 2021...

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Celestial gifts these memories we’ve stored
Slow walks on wave-caressed and sun-warmed sand
As crimson, umber, mauve cascades are poured
Extravagantly all across the land -
An art show best encountered hand in hand....

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A trio of guys in the nude
encountered old Polly the Prude;
they gasped as she tried
to drag them inside,
while shouting, 'I want to be screwed.'

written 26th February for Andrea's limerick contest (in memory of Rico)...

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There was a polite llama from Peru
        Who encountered a wild boar with the flu
           Llama said, 'Please don your mask
           If it's not too much to ask'
        The boar sneered, 'I'll be hog-tied if I do'...

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