could you favor a jaunt with his tiddley ? never ! he is not for me .
(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • September 7–13, 2026)
I bootstrap bobcat , was hastily enlisting a badmouth bystander to hound the tiddley hippies into fiendish fluster ?
(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • September 7–13, 2026)
Jolly Ollie, the tiddledy winks king
Jolly Ollie really mastered that thing
He's amazing to human dragon and elf
He even impressed the Pope
Who's a pretty good winker himself.
Hi tiddley hi ti I'm all right
I needed a mai tai, keeps me tight
I'm a waking winky -- got a belly ache
I think a Bromo-Seltzer is what I'll take.
Pritty little winks.
Pritty little winks.
What do you think
of the pritty little winks.
They love you
You love them
Each and every little wink
Is a pritty gem
Hi Tiddley Hi Ti
I sung this happy song
Hi Tiddley Hi Ti
But got the lyrics wrong
Hi Tiddley Hi Ti
The winker's life for me
I'm wearing a tie-dye
It fits me to a T.
Pom Tiddley Om Pom
Buddha says to me
Pom Tiddley Om Pom
He flips me in a tree
Pom Tiddley Om Pom
I get stung by a bee
Pom Tiddley Om Pom
So meditatively.
Random Think!
Tiddley winks
Panthers, Pink
Le Pew stinks
Seegers’ Batfink
Kia ora drinks
Glasses clink
Octopus Inks
Mineral zinc
Giza Sphinx
Torvill ice-rink
JarJar Binks
Computers sync
Honey he shrinks
Corporate Inc
Bond minx
Nuclear brink
Rhyming links
Random think!
Long Poems
What is it about long poems?
Won’t people read any more?
They certainly will not accept them for
An anthology, and that is a bore!
People write tiddley poems,
A couple of lines or Haiku
Expecting us all to say jolly good
Followed by Ahs! and an Oooo!
I read a review from a “liker”
Of a poem that’s five stanzas long
They give me five stars, comment on the length,
And I feel I’ve done something wrong.
Shakespeare put it succinctly,
He knew how to make the words fit,
He had Polonius in Hamlet exclaim
“Brevity is the soul of wit!”
This is true if you have something witty
And really clever to say,
But setting the scene and the context
Is what, I think, makes the play.
And don’t get me wrong I like Haiku
I think short poems can be fun,
But you really can say so much more,
In long ones when all’s said and done!
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