Shrew Poems

(Garden yourself and Emmanuel 
against risking life and limb,
especially as dark shadows edge - 
of night bring dim
mention onset of when shifting shapes swim
all around reducing slice 
of daylight slim).

I write thee today
September 13th, 2019 -
nuttin earth shattering to say
documenting
starttime:...Read More

"La forêt interdite"




In my soul
there You,
The Flame,
spend the 
better part of my 
night and day
playing your 
naked mind 
o’er my heart
The Shrew 
a wilding to 
be tamed, a
coaxing coquette,
bids come 
now,
pluck my 
Golden Chord
Insolent 
I lay spread 
before you 
an...Read More

           TULSI ACROSTIC




T-Tulsi is tenacious and not one
to take any guff!

U-Unshakeable and uncrushable
under "missing email" HRC's
horrendous harumph!

L-Lion Hearted Tulsi was to
meet with HRC,face to face.

S-Staunch,so solid is her stand!
and won't...Read More

Taming the shrew
Before it erupts
Against society

...Read More

Pilot Cletus O'Toole climbed in his plane and sailed for the blue!

  'Twas their wedding anniversary for him and his wife Mary Sue.

He intended to write in the sky, "MARY SUE I LOVE YOU!"

   Things went well...Read More

At three quarter intervals a ship appears. Always fading though. A silent invisibility really. Shame that happens. It is a wise idea to become silent when a pattern expects to play as playing with patterned people is problematic really.  



It...Read More

The amour of the eve, set the faces pleased,
The extent to engage, the moments were seized,
To placate the tone, their unions at ease,
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Talk talk talk
Said the stork

I can not hear you
Said the shrew

Oh shut up
Said the pup

Can you not see
Said the bee

Do you not feel
Said the eel

Bad communication
Leads to disorientation...Read More

It is time to die
The fluid in the tube is magma red
Soon I’ll be dead
Without a head
Without an in
Or anythin’
But was

It is time to live
The fluid in the tube is chewy pink
Did you see me wink
Reverse shrink
Come back 
Or sack
What...Read More

Dancing the Dixie Dough Ray Dew
Left foot danced faster than her Shoe
She kicked it off and it really flew,

Disqualified now and so angry too!
Got so mad she had the loudest boo-hoo
Never again danced the Dixie Dough Ray Dew

Left the dance...Read More

Separate tables

   He came sat down like they should be old friends.
   Do I know you, she said?
   Yes, we were lovers once.
   Long pause.
   Yes, I remember, but you...Read More

July 25th, 1996 tied the Gordian knot,...
(I spent noose cents)
begot deux daughters, the major events
both since flew cuckoo's nest,
the eldest angry at papa for offense

sieve behavior fatherly bond
forever sundered permanent rents
unforgiving progeny vents
bile, explosive vitriol whence...

Aye yen for bachelorhood every
now...Read More

The cunning shrew
Her bow drew -- Why?
Bull's eye!  O, my!...Read More

Raymond Magpie fell in love with a crow.
When she was around, he was a glow.
It cannot be true!
Said Mother Prue.
I will bring him home by his big toe.

So she did what she said she was going to do.
She dragged Raymond...Read More

Happily ensconced in a glimmering tree
Wearing buckle belts on his pudgy left knee
The old Vogan king took a potshot at me.

My men promptly snatched him up and threw him down
Tore off his wig, his shirt, and his hideous crown
Kicked him...Read More

"Love's Labour's Lost", "The Taming of the Shrew",
"Othello", "Hamlet", "Cymbeline", "Twelfth Night"...
Back in the day I all have passed them through
as people pass through suffering and plight.

My English was as weak as spot I had
for William's beard, for the ruthlessness
of...Read More

Would you still love me,
If I was a beast?
Would you still love me,
If I had ravenous urges?
Would you still love me,
If I lived in a cave made of yeast?
Would you still love me,
If I loved eating poisonous spurges?

Would you still...Read More

Hello, my name is Bob Deekerson,
and I’ve been having a rather tough time,
you see right now I am being sued
by someone who is of similar mind.

Every legal move I try to make,
he is always one step ahead of me,
though for...Read More

Where would I be without all my cups of coffee?
   Mired in a funk, completely at sea
In fact, I can tell you I would hardly be me
   At least not the 'me' that you normally see

I'd...Read More

SHE SITS LIKE A WICKETY RICKETY SHREW 
COBWEB ENCRUSTED - WAITING FOR YOU 
RUSTED AND BUSTED WANTING TO CHEW, 

COME ON IN, BUT DON'T SAY "BOO" 
SHE'S HAUNTED, UNDAUNTED
UNWANTED, ITS TRUE...
...Read More

Blind in one eye with the voice of a shrew
   Her chin came to a point, moles wildly grew
From her cheeks in a manner grotesquely askew
   Charming she was; you just had to view

Her misshapen fingers,...Read More

I'm hearing rumors that are easy to believe
but none of them give me reason to grieve
You've been telling people their poetry sucks
Words from your mouth flow in a fetid flux

What arrogance is revealed in your slander
You don't rile me enough...Read More

I am careful to not look under the mulberry bush at apartment five.
For that is where my meanest of mean great aunt Ginny Madeline lies.
She was bossy, a real shrew, who was always telling me what to do.
I have told...Read More

I’m your eldest daughter, but I ‘m not for sale
Stop lying about my temperament and telling other tales
Father, this tradition is archaic and no longer necessary
You’re putting your wishes first and mine are secondary

The parade of pompous suitors really makes...Read More

THE MAN FROM RANGOU

There once was a young man from Rangou
Whose wife was a horrible shrew
He beat on her head
Until she was dead
He now lives in Cell thirty-two

...Read More