ALICE THROUGH THE WORMHOLE
...*For Tom Woody contest
Curiouser and curiouser thinks Alice.
Why must I always follow that rabbit?
Last time it didn’t work out well,
I must try to break the habit.
This time they’re on a sp...
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Categories:
sillier, angel, space,
Form: Rhyme
Jokes
...Just read an old joke about Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes going camping.
They pitch their tent under the stars and go to sleep.
In the middle of the night, Holmes wakes up Watson, and says look u...
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Categories:
sillier, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Fatuous Philosopher
...
I am a philosopher
Of great mental acumen
I like to blow my own trumpet
As nobody seems to mention
While enlightening people
Of all hues, I think not twice
Morning to noon and ...
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Categories:
sillier, allegory, allusion, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
If Only I Could Rewrite the Stars- Christen Kuikoua
...If by chance I could relive my life
I will make more mistakes
will relax and be more sillier
Prasing every second of my life
than what has been so far in this journey of mine
I would have tole...
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Categories:
sillier, 10th grade, encouraging, family,
Form: Free verse
A Love Anatomy
...*** Devoted - A Love’s Anatomy ***
(For Jim)
Let me lean into your eyes,
As they — in an instant of our meeting —
First embraced me, inviting, as warm
As yo...
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Categories:
sillier, art, feelings, husband, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Slaphappy
...I'm usually known for my silly stuff
But once in a while I surprise
Drooling all over my keyboard and yours
With mushy stuff I fantasize
At times been known to wear different hats
Cont...
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Categories:
sillier, character,
Form: Rhyme
Marriage-Go-Round: the New Family Dynamics
...Round 1
An effeminate young husband named Ben Dawes
Sought a sex change in spite of his in-laws.
He made the decision,
And got the incision,
And he now has a yang where his yin was.
So...
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Categories:
sillier, change, confusion, gender, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Bamboozling Our Children
...We decided on hand signals.
They got sillier each day.
Pretending to speak to each other.
Stroking our imaginary beards.
Sometimes we cawed or tweeted.
It drove our children bananas.
We did t...
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Categories:
sillier, parents,
Form: Free verse
Covid Walk
...thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst...
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Categories:
sillier, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey,
Form: Verse
Till You Fart Ole
...Feeling a whole bunch sillier today
Maybe it's the weather or the moon's ballet
Giggles are tops
Pull out the stops
Laugh till your belly hurts and you fart, olé!...
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Categories:
sillier, anxiety,
Form: Limerick
Hedloper the Roman
...Hedloper the Roman was sent back to guard the books of Itheius.
They were kept in a library in the province of Mellifluethius.
He had never been here but he was a Roman, soldier-trained.
So here h...
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Categories:
sillier, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Stratification
...Most politicians are liars
(As they are adept in tricks)
Most militants are no mind
(As they are trained to obey sillier)
Most merchants are greedy cheaters
(As too many profits they care)
Most...
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Categories:
sillier, political, truth,
Form: Verse
Kathy's Hashish
...We used to pinch Kathy's hashish
one trip at a time so she wouldn't notice
but it really didn't matter- we had total immunity,
because she'd never go whining to the cherries.
We'd light up j...
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Categories:
sillier, crush, paradise,
Form: Free verse
A Zebra Might Rim Ram Roo
...Assuring a zig-zagging zebra a zinc zim-bam-boo
without cash, is so brash! As then you will have to give two.
Insuring a zoo master a zebra might rim-ram-roo
Practically tantamount to mashing a c...
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Categories:
sillier, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Silly Toys and Sillier Boys
...I looked at the toys and thought how silly
And what if I called him mr. Billy
He stroked my face and said it looked sweet
I knew he was the man I wanted to meet
I thought to myself how de...
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Categories:
sillier, abortion, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
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