School Word Play Poems

Little Miss Muffet loved her curds and whey,  
give me a box of cereal with cold milk and I will be on my way....

Read More

He goes through all the motions,
as taught in the acting school
but his aura yet displays,
camouflaged intent....

Read More

My friend, Don Quixote, a stubborn fool
  Didn't own a horse, so he rode a mule
    First he said, 'What's next?'
...

Read More

In the base motor pool
See an off-limits card school-
A scheming Bilko takes the pot
Hoodwinking top brass was his game,
Fast talking his claim to fame.



VIGNETTE-ALL OF...

Read More

I went to school with Gerry Mandering, it changed everything.

John G. Lawless
©6/25/2023...

Read More

We had a most horrid schoolteacher,
And us children did all hate her,
She’d shout at us for no real reason,
And threaten to see us later,
She had...

Read More

It was the second morning of “daylight savings time,” and the change was noticeable.

My BF Peter has a doctorate in applied physics, he's an expert,...

Read More

A REFLECTION OF PASSING TIME


At age 15,   
    Afternoons could last a week,
    Especially if nothing could...

Read More

REPARTEE (wordplay) :

I saw a fierce tiger moving in the woods,
Last time when I was playing gulf with Tiger Woods.
I looked tony and ready to...

Read More

ART SCHOOL
The
secret
of seeing-
knowing how to
see

NOTE:the single lanterne(also a shape form) is in reality a half American cinquain (the epigram form created by Adelaide Crapsey,thus labelled...

Read More

I tried to take Spanish once 
I was miserable.
I wanted subject verb predicate

I tried to take Spanish again
This time I was paying for it
High school...

Read More

a school
of dolphins-
on the starboard
a synchronised swimming
display


NOTE:A cinqku is an 'English language 'version of a tanka with 17 syllables 2;3;4;6;2
no title and last two(or three) lines being a surprise/comment on the...

Read More

In the base motor pool
See an off-limits card school-
A scheming Bilko takes the pot
Hoodwinking top brass was his game,
Fast talking his claim to fame.

NOTE:VIGNETTE is a rhymed five line light verse narrative cameo(a description that encapsulates someone or something)...

Read More

Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
   and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper"...

Read More

At school in Bonn was Auust Macke*
in every subject he was very slack
In art though he was one of a kind
all &every day it filled...

Read More