Short Polly Poems

cheese on crackers
sardines are good too
Polly wants a cracker?...

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The cold, crisp air bites
inviting all to bundle
like fat sausages...

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troubled parakeet
mumbles under his breath
WTF


John G. Lawless
©8/2/2018...

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Planting initial passions
Cultivating young minds
Growing abstract thinkers
All while playing in the mud...

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‘ Mimicry ’   23rd  Senryu 



        Is That Mimicry ? …
Yeah ! … A Caged, Enraged Polly
          Parrot-Parody !...

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Her mother was walking the dog
Pursued by a pot belly hog
But in the fog
She kissed a frog
According to Miss Polly Wogg . . . ....

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placid palatial paragraph
penned by polly poet
perfect personification
prose and poetry prettiness
proving preconceived perfection...

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When Bojo was combing his hair
Dominic Cummings was not there
In spite of the law
Cummings drove to see Ma
For Cummings no goings despair...

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Murder Hornets do not linger
When they sting you with their stinger
The GOP claim
They have the best aim
When hoisting their middle finger...

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There once was a pirate who was bored
so she went for a walk and explored.
A patch on both eyes 
and no warning cries
she walked herself straight off of board....

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the ruddy duck swims
turtle watches from a log
polly wogs wiggle

H-Forms Traditional Nature Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France
3/2/2022...

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There once was a chicken called ‘Polly’,
whose name sounded happy and jolly,
‘til one morning at two,
she crowed, “cock-a-doo,”
now our chook is a rooster called Wally.
...

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Polly loved eating lollies
She'd rather eat sweets than play with toys and dollies
She began to regret
The sweets that she ate
When her teeth all fell out for her follies...

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My parrot made me want to smack her

With all that noise the deaf could track her

I was hoping she'd talk

But all she did was squawk

So now she's Polly on a cracker...

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Pug-nosed pugnacious Polly loved to fight
She started brawls every Saturday night
Snapping, snarling, punching, sneak pinching too
I don’t want to go to bars with her. Do you?...

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A woman named Polly wouldn't yield,
though grown men wanted to plow her field.
“Without a ring you will fail.
I've thrown big stones in your trail.
My field now has a chastity shield.”...

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Got married, my surname’s now Cotton,
Our baby’s name can’t be forgotten,
We called her ‘ Polly Esther’
(I’m considered a jester)
My family thought we were rotten!

11/06/20...

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Flirt

Colin the Crayfish has been dishing up the dirt, 
Saying, Little Polly Pike is an outrageous flirt. 
Tim Trout’s going to be her new finned friend,
She hooked him by a rock pool, on the river bend....

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Fred's parrot learned 'Polly wants a cracker'
  Now Fred struts around town with a swagger ~
     But I popped Fred's balloon
     Called his parrot, 'buffoon' ~
  "My parrot requests gluten-free snacks, sir!"...

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ahoy, where is polly

ahoy me matey~~where is that parrot~~that land lover stole me words

2019 December 28
*1st Place*
A thief who Steals your thoughts
~~Bobby May
*3rd Place*
Podium placement (1)
~~Brian Strand...

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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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Rude Polly Parrot

Pretty Polly Parrot
likes saying naughty words
Pretty Polly Parrot is the
Rudest of all Birds
But should you ever wonder
Why Parrots are so bold
They only repeat master’s words
If the truth be told...

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There was a girl called Polly Esther,
the fastest girl from downtown Leicester.
Pre-packaged food was her sole fare,
For healthy meals she had no care.
In the tum for food there's room.
There plastic wrappings end in doom...

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pretty Polly practiced planting posies
purple primrose, pink petunias, plants protected by
prideful, placid, preening peacocks.
produce provided by Polly’s plentiful garden
pleases Peterson, plant president of Puffin Produce....

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Pink pony-tailed Polly rode in on a well-designed shoe.
None of us knew her, not even my cousin gnome Begard Blue.
Gnome Begard Blue had never seen anyone arrive in a shoe.
He ran to meet her, but my dragon Elfie hid herself in the loo....

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