Squawk! Beetle in your follicles.
Angry molecules.
I want bugs everywhere!
Haha! Please share!
It’s just a barrette?
Regret! Regret!
But I still want to flail.
Howling quail.
Beetle on my mind.
To find.
Fix your hair, girl.
Beetle in the curl.
~ This Monoku was requested by a friend ~ based on a comment made ~
I found a good use for a switch of birch ~ preaching parrot on a perch
Mr. Tom was a confident cat, the talk of the town.
We loved everything about him, he could get down.
He had swagger and sway, we loved his confident walk.
Until the wrong woman got him, her name was Meow Squawk.
Meow Squawk put him down, called him names and was mean.
Most of his relatives about her were not terribly keen.
She had a nasty way that messed up Mr. Tom’s head.
After they married, he barely hangs on to his sanity by a thread.
SQUAWK
A nuthatch built a twiggy nest
A cockatoo showed off her elegant crest
A bluejay stole a hummingbird's egg
A flamingo sleeps on just one leg
A seagull fought for an ocean snail
And Daffy Duck pulled Donald Duck's tail!
Each Squawk Heard from a Hawk
Should sufficiently count each squawk,
That had been released by a big hawk;
Harder trying;
Feathers flying;
Changed mind and learned how to talk.
Jim Horn
mynah birds starling
group are not natural speakers
but they can be taught
2019 September 13
howmanysyllables
5-7-5
Hawk Pursued by Squawk
Dark & White Mottled Flight,
Red Chasing Cardinal Instilling Fright,
Guarding Agin' Invasion Not Right.
Tiny vs. Awesome & Fearsome,
Courage Hear Ye All This Poem,
Able to Scourge, Raiders Stem.
Songbird Brave Hightails Raptor,
Saving Chicks From Certain Capture,
Watching 'Underbird' Prevail Brings Rapture!
blue jay schools chick
well known screech heard in heaven
makes angels smile
I love my green and feathered friend a bushel and a peck, *
But there was one occasion when I could have wrung her neck!
She's normally so well-behaved, but on that fateful day
When Aunty Pat came round for tea, I heard my parrot say:
'Old fatty Aunty Patty', 'Aunt Patty is a bore!'
With that my red-faced Aunt stood up and stormed out through the door!
I could have killed that parrot, we didn't speak for days.
I glowered at her through the cage and confiscated maize.
I tend to watch my words now, and Polly curbs her bill
The last I heard, my Aunty Pat had cut me from her will!
FINAL REVISED VERSION
16/03/19
'Green Humor Rhymes, Old Or New For Prizes Poetry Contest'
Sponsored by Carolyn Devonshire
* For anyone not familiar with this expression it means : ' a lot; a great amount' and was famously used in a song from the broadway musical 'Guys and dolls'. The last word seemed particularly fitting within this context!
A man had a parrot that talked so bad
A worst vocabulary no one had
The man attempted to make correction
The parrot threw epithets in every direction
Finally exasperated in a fit of rage
The man pulled the parrot out of his cage
Threw him in the freezer to cool him off
All the while, the parrot just squawked
Then suddenly it got deathly quiet
The man felt things weren't exactly right
He opened the freezer and to his surprise
The parrot began to apologize
For being so vulgar and so obscene
He promised from now on to be serene
He said to the man, I have a question for you
What did that turkey in the freezer do?
Curtis Moorman
23 November 2011
For the Gobble, Gobble contest
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all you Soupers
Three
three
three me
Through the veils of time
Through the veils of space
Through the veils of veils
Into out of mind
Nearer to away
Stay me to the going
Weigh my chance
Feel my need
Feed my knowing
Wind still blowing
Change and dance
Through this trance
Keep my honor flowing
Through the darkness
Twisting time
Into light
Roll roaring fire
Direct me to
My heart’s desire
Three
Three
Three me
Free
To
Fly