Humor

. How Septuagenarian’s Cope Past seventy. Age does prevail. __The day is growing dim. I’ve managed through life’s calms and...

. The Knitted Dress I began with the best of intentions, Though in hindsight I have to confess, That the...

. A Musical Offering When Bach arrived at Sanssouci, King Frederick said, “Sir, you must be tired. My fortepianos may...

. A Temporary Exhibit A million drops of water will be sprayed Across my yard today. And each of them...

. Masks When tourists arrive in our village, The question that most of them ask, Is, “Why is it all...

. Left Outside The shopping cart, precisely ordered now while searching for those perfect little lines of lights for decorations---anyhow,...

. Dear Death… Don't tickle with your sickle __Don't taunt me when I'm sick. Don’t make me writhe. Don’t spare the scythe. __Be...

. Requiem The notes we cherish most Are gathered from the throats Of those who perished young. The song we...

. On Cats and Love My cat does not explain himself. He knows his reasons. Why must I? He needs...

. The Kakistocracy Does the news give you malneirophrenia, __but you've not been to sleep? Do you galumph all day...

. Shakespeare Re-placed Re-Verse Engineering In the picture above, SCP poet James A. Tweedie has taken the image of Venus...

. Unchristian I hope you burn in Hell for nasty things You said to me, but if you don’t, I...

. A Prayerful Pantoum for the Perpetually Pessimistic  "We'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne."  ---Robert...

. Mythological Limericks on Defloration . Venus and Adonis Adonis was cute as a berry And Venus was sexy and...

. Sleigh Rides Do Not a Christmas Make While folks down under get to ride their bicycles __And dine alfresco...

. Dancing Bear I came late to the party. I should have stayed away. When I walked in, I heard...

. . To a Budding Ode   with apologies to John Keats   . I’m in the mood to crack your odic...

. Red and Green . Red Tomatoes Tomatoes fresh or in a jar Must top the list of red by...

. Are you looking for a good poem to read at your Christmas party or gathering? Is it a more...

. The Color Plaid At Christmastime, when I was just a lad Of eight or nine, my aunt would bring...

. Limericks for Lame Cowboys A cowboy who came from Seattle, Had a habit of disturbing cattle. __The horse made...

. There Are Not Enough Hours in the Day There are not enough hours in the dayto take all of...

. The Ballad of Baldy McCass Canteen I From Utah to Colorado rode that wily desperado. Sometimes off to wild...

. . The Eve of Thanksgiving ‘Tis the eve of Thanksgiving, and all through the class, The students are wishing...

. “United” Nations? The U.N. won’t condemn Hamas’s slaughter,Supporting those who want Jews underwater.Iran’s a U.N. human rights group head,Though...

. Ode to Old Tom Old Tom he stalks the English Dales, The Patron Saint of potent ales. He makes...

. Poet Paul A. Freeman challenges you to write a nursery rhyme in the style of the Mother Goose classic...

. Word Witch She’ll tease and tempt with mystic words, __This foxy sorceress. Her syntax soars like sun-bound birds--- __This wizard poetess Casts...

. The Great Sonnet I set myself to write a sonnet. I labored hard and long upon it. Sweet verse...

. Mrs. Cyclops Ain’t really gonna leave. I’ll just pretend, Brontesa. Cy and I are bound. I simply Can’t bear...

. Cystolitholapaxy Cystolitholapaxy (si-stow-luh-THAA-luh-pak-see): a procedure to break up bladder stones into smaller pieces and remove them “It’s Cystolitholapaxy for...

. The Truth about Fall Colors  I am October’s most submissive bitch, And just when I believed I’d struck it...

. Bunker Hill an excerpt from the forthcoming Legends of Liberty, Vol. 2 . The Eve of Battle The midnight...

. Blocked Though honeyed breezes warm the marble halls on Mount Parnassus, vainly do I search for writing on my...

. Season of Gall and Sticky Listlessness Autumn is upon us here in Texas. Her shy arrival’s destined to perplex us. Just like...

. Labyrinthine Bag My wife, bless her heart, went and bought me a bag with tons of compartments, and pouches,...

. Rhyme Subprime I tend to rant against slant;maybe it’s something I can’t__embrace with affection__or write to perfection but I...

. A Draft of Death Did Flavius not inform us How a fart fetched fates enormous? After Flavius Josephus’s account...

. On Being “Chopped” On TV, watching the show “Chopped,” I see Three losing chefs go home each episode; And...

. Cantankerous Limericks on Good English Prose I love a complexly wrought sentence With phrases and colons that went thence...