Humor

. Problem Child Barley and hops acquainted, meet, __And yeast completes the marriage. Soon happy news as something brews __With...

. Anniversary Remembrance Sometimes I envy them the lives they lived, the death they died: They perished at the peak...

. A Town The difficulty of describing how This town was then, may only be because So little happened there,...

. I Need My Coffee  I need my coffee; don’t get in the way Of that which wakes me up...

. Miss Jewell’s Suicide ---from a story by George Gissing The chipped and mismatched crockery,Two boiled eggs and tepid tea,A...

. The Rise of Washington from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 IT’S TIME! Let’s give our story’s star some space....

. Were She to Ask, and I Affirm Were she to ask, and I affirm That I'd still love her...

. Four Letter Words My dad was smart, my dad was wise; He crossed his t’s and dotted i’s. His...

. Reward for How You Live from Italo Calvino’s Italian folktale “Gesù e San Pietro in Friuli” One night, while...

. The Day the Roofers Came He fled the day the roofers came. His fur was fluffed and frizzy. He...

. . Little Boy Blue . Original Version Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow,...

. Phone Home I often talk to radio astronomers, The kind of guys who like to stay anonymous, Who chew...

. A Tiny Tabby Beside our garden’s scalloped fence, where English Ivy’s vines are dense, we viewed an unexpected sight;...

. I Saw a Naked Wood Nymph I sat down in the forest, a picnic in the shade. I saw...

. I Never Do a Happy Dance I never do a happy dance, Or look online to find romance, Speak...

. 1. Just off the cuff, I’d cap the alcoholic swill __Before it calls your bluff and saps your will....

. King George III Declares War from Legends of Liberty, Volume 2 Note: The British have won a pyrrhic victory...

. Dishing Out Advice Why are there always dishes in the sink? So lazy and undisciplined. You’d think they might...

. Epicure's Delight A wondrous day, my love, is this— An afternoon of utter bliss! The two of us alone...

. To a Beet I sing the bristled hedgehog grainno horticulture can explain,with six sly seedlings in its brain:__the unborn...

. A Curse Against a Thief from the Carmina Burana Let the thief who stole my cap be by death...

. A Divine Mistake? Dear Father up in Heaven, Why create thou rats. Six times out of seven They even...

. Overkill K.I.S.S. ("Keep it simple, stupid.") My heart enflamed with rapture, burned With passionate desire; yearned For her and...

. Third-Degree Burns A young poet who came from Dundee Looked around him and then took a knee, __For the...

. Shakespeare's Women for Susan Jarvis Bryant, who has a spiritual home in Stratford-on-Avon It’s April 23rd. The rain is...

. Not Sonnet 18… Yet I strain in vain to sparkle like the Bard. I strive to spill slick iambs...

. Goodbye, Sweetie Oh, devil-angel, Sugar! Your time’s done! You rot my teeth, yet melt upon my tongue. I’m forced...

. The Meat Purveyor’s Son Aesthetically impaired, she was the heir to daddy’s fortune. She was plumpish, short and much...

. The Qua-Train In four lines stood iambic feet To board the quatrain from the street. The poem made of...

. The Book on Lefty McBane McBane could do no wrong—from his debut, late in his rookie season, right on...

. Distress Signals an extended villanelle Distressing times are coming round again, And all the talking heads now flap their...

. Coffee Limericks . I love to have coffee each morning, Including the act of the pouring: __I smell the...

. . Homophonophobic (This poem is so vain and humorous you’ll burst a vein or break your humerus) My editor...

. The Alleged Bulldozer My wife told me, shortly after we got married, that I “bulldozed” her into the marriage....

. Bowing to Power Although they might Not do what’s right, The very strong Are never wrong. If you complain,...

. Hatching A gelid mass of wings that seethed and surged— A squeamish sight that caught me by surprise— A...

. Probing for the Problematic Polyp Bob was testy yesterday. __A fractious, famished fellow. You would be, too, if all...

. On Me I am a simple Eastern bard __Who moseys by the heather That grows in sweeping fields and...

. Ipse Dixit I say Cogito ergo sum To the animal here in the room. So how do I know...

. Ode to a Dodo  inspired by Paul A. Freeman’s "Paradise Island"   O tragic fowl of cataclysmic fate, Your magic...