Straggly Poems

Zany Zippy Zambo

...zany zippy zambo
rarely watches Rambo
preferring cartoons
watching Saturn’s moons

persnickety ways
does not waste his days
doing what he wants and only that
brought home five dogs and one st...

NO TO THE SHOW

...NO TO THE SHOW

You’re lying he said and shook his head
I know there is no witch in the wardrobe
And if she were there, I would be aware
Then he smiled and pulled on his earlobe

Then with a g...

HOW GREEN IS MY VALLEY?

...

Just how green is my valley
Below those dark satanic hills?
How many familial bones
Lay there molding to greyish dust?
Do the words of my forefathers
Echo on beyond my ancient head...
So...

Unitarian Church returnee

...Unitarian Church returnee

After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional 
almost three months 
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted ...

TWA HAIRY DUGS

...TWA HAIRY DUGS

Twa hairy dugs
 Walking doon the street,
Raking in the buckets
Tae find a bite tae eat.

Licking oot a puddle
Tae git a nice cool drink,
Survival on the streets alone
They r...

Will wonders never cease!?

...Will wonders never cease!?

Alternately titled: Last of the fluff
belonging to a Mohican
Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe.

Any resemblance between said unnamed individual
and living persons ...

Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation

...Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation

Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty.

Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twen...

neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide

...neither cleanliness nor godliness do I abide
rather yours truly doth thrive
on keeping the ethos, mythos,
and pathos of Pigpen alive
subjected to eternal
abomination, brutalization,
condemnatio...

Displaced in Misplaced Confidence

...If I should get punctured, laying leaking Crimson Tide, 
call me Deacon Blues as I slowly start to die.
If they miss me, take it easy.
All is as it should be.
It's best to cut losses, cut ties, c...

A thorny story

...I share a tree with a story to tell:
We were out for a walk round Dufton Pike
when this straggly hawthorn conveyed its spell,
holding my gaze on our afternoon hike.
A closer study showed not one ...

Flaming Glorybower

...Blackened. Charred.
Are the blossoms of autumn's acclaimed abundance
No longer dance they in vivid wonderance,
Singed by the frigid frost,
Stand they forlorn and lost.

Barren. Desolate.
Stand...

January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

...January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, emi...

GREEN DAY revisited

...	GREEN DAY – revisited
     Although the following poetic/prosaic material written January eighteenth two thousand and eighteen, I came across these encapsulated, enclosed, encoded, and encrusted wi...

FICTIONAL BIO:

...FICTIONAL BIO:

The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thu...

The Story of the Cruel and Dark Queen That Feeds On Souls

...The Story Of The Cruel And Dark Queen That Feeds On Souls

She that exists to eat innocent souls and this world's vast wealth
A dark goddess, splaying her straggly long hair with wilted roses
Pre...

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