Short Fricassee Poems

There once was a bold picidae*
Who pounded his beak just for play
on a double-decker
bus, now his pecker
resembles a flawed fricassee

(*picidae - woodpecker)...

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There was a rabbit in Tennessee 
His offspring numbering forty three
His manners much less than polite
Caught in a garden without an invite
Now he's on a plate you see; served as rabbit fricassee...

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Is it frivolous to be silly?
Slinging pure lively giddy into a lamp post pile,
laughing in a joyful eager way?

Is it foolish to play as if tonight might be
the last night you can ever play with 
these people, or in this spot?

Is it trivial to fricassee words, frying them up
into lively funny limericks or poetic sentences,
trying to amuse or encourage others?

Obviously, I think not....

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