Humor

  A Fishing Tale ---24 November 2025 Young Jeffrey oft went fishing with his dad Sometimes for perch but oftener...

  Leak Oh, versifyingʼs worthless unless you know the what and why Of saying something deep and true, or of...

  Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sense   London, 1774 A man walked through the door, escaping rain. His shoes were...

  A Gift from the South Seven degrees outside. How can it be that clouds float northwards? It’s not arctic...

  Dirty White Dwight’s Plight Finally, the rains return, And Dwight the snowman’s taciturn Sad features are yet sadder still,...

  Advice to a Cigar Aficionado If you smoke a cheap cigar You may get severe catarrh, For a poor...

  Blooming Early or Late? This tyro of six years reads hardly a word. The idea of language displayed on...

  Ancestors Forlorn From elderly to youngest child, Methinks our forebears never smiled! It seems that every picture shows Each...

  Rhyme Crimes How strange that rhymes for “wife” abound While rhymes for “husband” don’t exist. An “errant” “parent” might...

  Sally Forth, Ms. Cook "My holiday shall be That they remember me; My paradise, the fame That they pronounce...

  Ode to My Plumber Bubble, bubble toilet trouble, Fix this problem on the double. Plugged up draining. Will not...

  Choosing a Thermometer If tubes hypoglottal Can cause you to throttle, And things in your ears Breed irrational fears,...

. Beyond "Daffodils" The British weather gets my goat. For once, upon a morning stroll, My path became a flooded...

  On Time I went to bed too late last night And woke up to an awful fright But now...

  The Candy Bandits They’re heartless and artful---delinquents of wit With grab-happy claws and a glare that is lit With...

  Uncle Stanislaw I still can hear the sound of acorns popping Beneath the wheels of father’s horse-drawn cart As...

  Queen of Chaos I am the Queen of Chaos, Empress of Entropy. Czarina of Disorder, My stuff is all...

  When the Old Guys Get Together When the old guys gather and swap stories, From their strangely growing inventories,...

  After Putting a Poetry Anthology in a Blender I have been one acquainted with the night. Rage, rage against...

  The One That Got Away Nelson Cedrick Thunderwood, a Colonel in the army, has served his country faithfully for...

  Three Short Poems by Heinrich Heine translated from German by Josh Olson   1 I laugh at every doltish...

. Nice Things Done Most of the nice things some people will do,Are done partly for their own benefit too.But...

  A Letter I came to babysit your cats _‘Round eight o’clock tonight, But things aren’t going as they ought...

  Emily Dickinson: A Brief Synopsis Emily Dickinson Wished Mr. Higginson Hadn’t been so loath Her poems to critique. Higginson,...

. A Sonnet upon a Most Ungrateful Gnat Upon my back a spiteful gnat did sting, I cried aloud, and...

. Modern Blessing May you have five bars upon your phone _And a WiFi signal strong. May your identity stay...

. The Pentagon Panama Plan A place in turmoil—Panama_In nineteen eighty-eight—Was where the strongman Noriega_Was busy tempting fate. The Pentagon...

. Last Minute Change Fowl, tragic days, Hen-house ablaze; Chickens took flight. Tofu tonight? . . A Man Eating Chicken...

. To a Most Tempting Pancake “Quae mollis est, amanda est.” (What is soft, is to be loved) ---Libri Matutini...

. Pointless Poems Why do women shave their legs, It seems unnecessary. The question lingers, pleads and begs, What’s wrong...

. Advice to a Young Man in Love If her name is Sally, then _Tattoo it on your arm With...

. Modes of Divination The future’s course, in all of its essentials, Is augured from a steaming heap of entrails....

. A Horse’s Tale: King Arthur’s Great Steed The horse known for bearing the greatest of kings— Proud Thor was...

. The Power I’ve noticed more and more of late My power to infuriate Is stronger than it’s ever been....

. Dear Blabby’s Advice for the Clueless _I want to write a column _Like Abigail Van Buren To give out...

. The Troubadour Remembers A troubadour wayfaring town to town, Hamlet to homestead, dale to grassy down, While he his...

. Conjugation: Tense with Mood ---a verbal disagreement between the indicative and the subjunctive If I were all that I...

. Of Cats and Cardinals ---for George Lionel (2005 – 2025) You left us at the hour of the owlWhen...

. Spoiled-Rotten Cat Instructs Visitors Don’t you dare try to sit in my spot! I’ll decide if you pet me...

. Don't Call Me Shirley A Comic Homage Robert Hayes as reluctant pilot Ted Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious!”...