Caterpillar Wisdom
"If I were meant to soar up there with you,"
said the caterpillar to the butterfly,
flitting overhead,
"and not stay sitting earthbound here instead,
I would have been born with wings,
and it will be over my body when dead,
akin to a murder of crows,
before you'll get me up
in one of those
funny-looking flying things."
...
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Categories:
word play, butterfly, flying, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Identity Crisis
Long after midnight
in late December
woke one night in total fright
as where I was did not remember
but more importantly
couldn't see
the forest for the trees
and did not recall myself at all
or who exactly was this me
but when I could
it would feel so good
as then I'd be out of the woods
so instead of groping blind
did quite the obvious...
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Categories:
word play, anxiety, fun, humorous, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Hyenas
While on safari
(Kiswahili for 'trip')
in Tanzania
over the horizon in a downward slip
across the savannah
the sun had begun to set
thought I'd seen it all
and yet
out on the endless plains
known to the Maasai as 'Serengeti'
not laughing but
and don't think me petty
with leopard-like
rosettes dotted
some funny-looking hyenas
there were spotted
...
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Categories:
word play, africa, animal, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Oddly Enough
"Go along to get along" a wise man he once said
(altho' I don't concur)
but it occurred to me
neither follower nor leader be if you want to get ahead
and if the herd you stroll behind please do consider the view
(but not too closely)
yet what is worse yes you may curse
that which you step into
some believe the...
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Categories:
encouraging, philosophy, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Please Parse The Metaphor
Do you have a poetic licence
to park your pitiful purple prose
(alliteratively he wrote)
it even puts my poor feet to sleep
and gives me painful coma toes
(literally did he quote)
And have you paid your syn tax
to persist in paltry poetry
(a non sequitur perhaps)
as dabbling in sad scribbling
is how your paean 'ppears to me
(no storied scripts mere scraps)
Before...
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Categories:
word play, animal, fun, humorous, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
O, O, O - Heck
O, to be born mechanical
or to possess hands botanical
Alas, I find myself charlatanical
in the position of car salesmanical
Though there’s no...
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Categories:
word play, car, garden, money, word
Form: Monorhyme
June's TuneJune June June June....
is
out of
tune
with imploding
doom
unJe uJne Juen June....is out fo
nute tiwh lpidmgino
dmoo…
mdoo omod oodm mdoo...
si ni nuet tihw expoidnlg
oglom
doom doom doom doom...
is
in tune
with exploding
gloom
...
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Categories:
word play, dark, june, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
NiksatMy heart kneels
at the sight of her tribal marks
Bogoria’s geysers gushing
Love, splattering Blood
Parting her lips to split
the world between mortals and gods
I kiss her
to split her Soul,
create Life with her
destroy all her Fears,
let my intrusive Thoughts
claim Victory, fill her Void;
Diamanti sono per sempre, I
ignore her Flaws, put her above
the soi-disant amour propre, Belgard
her Sacred nature;...
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Categories:
word play, africa, allusion, black love,
Form: Free verse
Wheels Up
Why does the trolley
dolly or cart
I choose to use
in every supermart
always have a wonky wobbly wheel
and feel oh so wearing
as if it's about to lose
its marbles or ball bearings?
It clunks like junk with a 'thunking' sound
and almost dumps
my groceries on the ground
won't go straight
invariably tilts veers
careens or curves
and without a doubt
indubitably gets on my nerves
...
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Categories:
word play, fun, humorous, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
Seeing Spots
Physicists may say,
'Random is not truly random,
it only appears to be,'
but another theory goes,
(according to me)
'Not so when playing games of chance,'
(and I have done the sums)
for this experiment logic states,
'The odds in favour are 5 to 1.'
As I spy with my little eye,
seeing spots and counting dots
on a regular die,
(these don't go to 11)
the...
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Categories:
word play, games, humorous, science, word
Form: Rhyme
Ribbit
Froggy went a courtin',
"Ribbit," he did sing,
altho' singing weren't his thing,
more like the punchline to a joke,
'Please don't smoke or I might croak.'
In the deep end of the pond
true love was his goal,
and by the dawn help to spawn
a few more tadpole souls.
Hopped on to a water lily
where he espied
a fine-looking froggy filly,
and in her...
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Categories:
word play, animal, fun, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Jersey Belle, My Jersey Girl
'twas at the country fair I spied her
outstanding in her field
(in many more ways than one)
beyond compare second to none
eyelashes long and lovely skin of velvety down
I insist who could resist those eyes so big so brown
(limpid pools?) 'twould make a fool of (almost) any man
but I'm her biggest fan and I won't lie I...
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Categories:
word play, animal, fun, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Alive, Alive Oh!
The best thing about waking up
is not the coffee in our cup
warming the cockles
I'd impart
from the bottom of our heart
it's knowing we survived
to see another day arrived
no matter what may come our way
as being late
when we're done and gone
is far too harsh to contemplate
so smell the flavour
savour the roast
and of our time here on earth
before...
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Categories:
humorous, life, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Silverback
Silverback led his gorilla by the wrist
out into the fog and missed,
lost his heart and then his way,
sadly, he was heard to say,
"Don't get me wrong,
I'm no King Kong,
it's plain to see,
so, don't make a monkey out of me."
Silverback took his gorilla by the hand,
looking for the promised land,
a jungle bungle at very best,
made him...
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Categories:
word play, animal, fun, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
The Evidence
When asked if he toked the evil weed,
William Jefferson Clinton (né?Blythe III),
aka, Bill Clinton, we heard, did indeed,
if not totally beyond the pale
these words he spoke,
"I smoked but didn’t inhale,"
and altho' with no proof, yet by the book,
with that he was off the hook.
Then came Monica Lewinsky,
their relationship he lied to hide,
accused with obstruction of...
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Categories:
humorous, usa, word play,
Form: Rhyme
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