Short Ogden Poems

King Arthur
  was no Siddartha...

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Today's Ogden Nash's birthday
  ~ I guess we all owe him a poem...

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Some archaeologists like to
date older women.










Thanks Ogden
7 words...

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The cheetah 
  doesn't need ya
Be careful
  it doesn't eat ya



Ogden Nash recycled...

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New York poet Ogden Nash
with rhyme made quite a splash
His topics aesthetically absurd
so popular though when heard...

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The Bible is the Word of God
So don't you find it somewhat odd
Like Ogden Nash
God needs your cash
Before you can be overawed?...

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Ogden Nash 

New York poet Ogden Nash
with rhyme made quite a splash
His topics aesthetically absurd
so popular though when heard...

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Read to your children
Ogden Nash is a gas
Shel Silverstien is a godgift
Raffi's pretty cool, too,.

Read them good stuff and they'll develop
Vocabulorocity...

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The cow is of the bovine ilk.  
One end is moo; 
the other, methane and milk.  


*His original: 'The cow is of the bovine ilk.  
One end is moo, the other milk.'...

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Here's a salute to Poet Ogden Nash,

   Who was notable for being quite brash!

      He was much more wittier

         Than John Greenleaf Whittier,

            Concocting reams of clever balderdash!...

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Ogden Nash begets the Nasher
Humored couplets somewhat brasher

Seems these rhymes are wrenched in nature
Clenched, this nomenclature impure

Odd end Ogden, gnashing nashers,
Hence the wincing grimace assures...

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My More Horn Haiku to You

chew and chew then chew
train riding on is a cho cho
picture of I drew

How about that for a Horn Haiku.

Ogden Nash is one of my favorite poets.
Just found out that Nashville is named
after his family....

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Ogden Nash would often dash
A poem off in a flash
But too many words 
Killed too many birds
And often wound up in the trash

He was surely amusing
But sometimes confusing
Some words I would look up
In order to hook up
Without winding up losing...

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Don't be afraid - no need for that
Don't run away from Ogden Gnat
You won't be his supper tonight
He only wants to share the light

This mosquito intends no harm
He doesn't mean to cause alarm
Around you he flies only to look
At the funny poems in your book...

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I revere the witty verse of Ogden Nash,

   Whose versifications are so waggish and brash!

      His work elicited from the masses many a guffaw.

         Alas, he met his doom after consuming infected slaw!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved...

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The swan can poop while sitting down
on water or on its feet on solid ground.
For this Ogden Nash awarded it a crown.
Yet humans on occasion have been known
to rush to duplicate the feat 
and for expedience not a prize,
rather a desperate need to find a seat
in a restroom stall no one occupies....

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Written by Gail R DeBole
On September 18, 2021
Updated on September 20, 2021

Likes are nice,
But Retweets are sweet.

Faves are all the rave,
But Retweets are hard to beat.

(Tribute to the writing style of American poet Ogden Nash and his poem "Reflections on Ice Breaking" written in the year 1931.)...

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Who Cares

Write what you feel like
Writing about and who cares
What it all may mean.

Laid back attitude
All of this could be construed
So why fight a feud?

To me, when you combine
together Robert Frost, 
Ogden Nash and Will Rogers
you have a successful way
of coming up with your 
own poetry.

Jim Horn...

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'Tis for certain another Shakespeare I shall never be,

   Nor will I ever come close to commanding Ogden Nash's fee!

      Thy humble servant will write never to become rich,

         But, hopefully, in some small way, others' lives to enrich!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) 2014 All Rights Reserved...

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Will one write an Ogden Nash?
A touch o' wink, bit a blink
And then, add a glint o' guile...
Doing all, with wryest smile.

Or could it come out "Mish-Nashed"?
Since Nash, he himself, had mashed
His isms into witticisms
Leaving most in a mad dash -







Tribute, 8 Line, Light Verse, 48 Words, To Ogden Nash
Noted American Poet 1902 - 1971...

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Fascinated With Will Rogers and Mark Twain

Which one is a must?
Should we collect and discuss
Gather in disgust.

I am becoming quite fascinated with Will Rogers,
Mark Twain, Ogden Nash and also Robert Frost.
Combine all of those together and you will end 
up finding me.

James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
and near Norfolk, VA area born
RiverSea Plantation
Bolivia, NC....

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There's more than just size to the elephant,
they do do some things that the others can't.
Many stories show these acts as valiant;
in the wild, grand gestures seem elegant.
Their wisdom is "ear-ily" evident,
nothing too pithy or given to rant -
like wry witticisms from Oscar Levant.
Or, Ogden Nash whose stanzas are extant,
not the rhymes of some silly sycophant.
Pachyderms make empathy "rel-e-phant"!...

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Like Ogden I dwell on llamas or lamas. 
Like Yeats I'm too too morose. 
My rhymes are more like Thomas 
And too little of the red red rose. 
\Like Shakespeare methinks too much; 
Like Dickinson I'm so so morbid 
And, of course, like Dylan a total lush 
And always much too torpid. 
\So like Coleridge's albatross 
An Thayer's Casey-at-the-bat 
I'll have to hope my thoughts will cross 
The grey matter just below your hat....

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Like Ogden I dwell on llamas or lamas. 
Like Yeats I'm too too morose. 
My rhymes are more like Thomas 
And too little of the red red rose. 
\Like Shakespeare methinks too much; 
Like Dickinson I'm so so morbid 
And, of course, like Dylan a total lush 
And always much too torpid. 
\So like Coleridge's albatross 
And Thayer's Casey-at-the-bat 
I'll have to hope my thoughts will cross 
The grey matter just below your hat....

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The Following is the poem "Lama" by Ogden Nash


The one l - lama
He's a priest.
The two l - llama
He's a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn't any
Three - L lllama.

My version of the lines Nash missed.

But Mr. Nash
I must insist
On an addition
To your list.
The three l - lllama's
Clang and din
Brings cries of “Fire!”
In Brooklyn.



Yes I should be publicly flogged in a poetry forum!  An old joke but still a good one....

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