What do you think
Oh, I dunno
I guess I think
About what they think
Well what do you think about
What you think about they think about
I dunno
What do you think
Categories:
thunk, confusion,
Form: Questionku
Late last night as I sat and pondered
And all my thoughts for hours had wandered
I just sat and I thunk
Until all my thoughts stunk
It looks like another night squandered
Categories:
thunk, night,
Form: Limerick
We can find out anything
By clicking on our phone
And possibilities exist
More than the world has known.
Deliveries come to our door
With anything we need
And plenty that we don’t,
With satisfaction guaranteed.
The opportunities abound
To travel and to learn
As chances keep expanding
To reach goals for which we yearn.
With all of these accomplishments
We’ve never had before,
Well, who’da thunk that there would
Still be poverty and war?
That there would still be hatred
And stupidity and greed,
Small-mindedness, brutality
And bullies to mislead?
Technology’s advances
Might have given us a boost,
But you woulda thunk such problems
Woulda somehow been reduced.
Categories:
thunk, life,
Form: Rhyme
Born way back in nineteen-thirty-five
Will the word “ancient” ring a bell when midnight arrives
Still cookin' up a storm
My body's still warm
Who woulda thunk it I'd still be alive!!!
Categories:
thunk, courage,
Form: Limerick
Born way back in ninety-thirty-five
Will the word “ancient” ring a bell when midnight arrives
Still cookin' up a storm
My body's still warm
Who woulda thunk I'd still be alive!!!
Categories:
thunk, age,
Form: Limerick
Took one or two shortcuts
Thunk I’d get away with it
But it cartainly caught up with me
No time for winning
Now that I’m paying
I’m out of balance
‘Twas meant to pass
But one by one
Let slip my good habits
Thunk I’d take a break
But life got in the way
Let priorities slip and slide
Bad habits have a way
To overtake good habits
Say adios and hello chaos
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Posted on August 7, 2018
Categories:
thunk, conflict, hope, integrity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
i took some time to think
and what it is i thunk
double time inside my mind
is i don't think enough
whether on this side of smooth
or the other side of rough
is mostly what i thought it was
when it was i thunk
when i'm on the brink of think
my mind in overdrive
thinking what i thunk i thought
is what i thought this time
mercy sakes alive
goodness gracious please
now that i've thunk all of this out
why do i even think
Categories:
thunk, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Born way back in nineteen-thirty-five
Will the word “ancient” ring a bell when midnight arrives
Still cookin' up a storm
My body's still warm
Who woulda thunk I'd still be alive!!!
© Jack Ellison 2015
Categories:
thunk, age,
Form: Limerick
I started to think and thank till I'd thunk
of songs I would sing and sang till I'd sung.
And what I would do that I did to be done
was to write what I wrote till I'd written down one.
While I'd sit till I'd sat and was sitting a bit
as I'd give till I gave when I'd given a hit.
As I'd hear what I'd heard what I thought I was hearing
as I'd speak what I spoke when I'd spoken while nearing
was a work that had worked and was working in whole
till the end where it ended in ending a role.
That I sing till I sang what has to be sung
as I cling and I clang to something I've clung.
And I love what I've loved while loving it all
that I'm done what I'm doing and did have a ball.
Categories:
thunk, allusion, creation, dedication, language,
Form: Couplet
Who woulda thunk I'd be thrown a curve
Taking pills to relieve my stress
The stress of moving, to calm myself down
Life's like a long game of chess
You make a move and hope for the best
Experience tells you it's right
Then all of a sudden you're thrown a curve
A proverbial bullet you must bite
Not everything goes exactly as planned
Be flexible and ready for change
It'll lead to a more peaceful and happy life
Even better than fortune and fame
Who needs fame, it's a fleeting thing
The real blessings are ones you hold dear
Tell someone close you love them each day
Just like magic a smile will appear
It's sometimes hard to follow this advice
Have to keep reminding myself
There ain't no other person I'd rather be
Than this happy cheerful old elf!
©Jack Ellison 2013
Categories:
thunk, life, stress,
Form: Quatrain
There once was a rabbit named Clare
Who'd shake her tart tail anywhere.
A Wolfman named William
was droolin' with willingness
fangs brushed, eyes sparklin', no cares.
He'd practiced his opening line.
On foxes and fawns, it worked fine!
So full of his hairiness
he approached Clare. Can you guess?
She asked “Can you keep time?”
“Hunh?” Sir Wolfman thought, “can she
really have thoughts that are loftier than ME?”
But something about her
made William's heart splatter.
Now Clare and William are happy.
Categories:
thunk, holiday, love,
Form: Limerick