Sentence Deconstruction | Mary Bone
I deconstructed a sentence
broke it down to the letters
fileting the words with a knife,
somehow I ended up
with chopped suey.
humorous poems
Sleep Issues | G. S. Katz
Drank a pint of Smithwicks around 7pm
Split a plate of nachos with a friend
Drank 2 fingers of Wild Turkey 101 at 9:30pm
Ate Chicken and pasta around 10pm
Small arugula salad too
Hard some coconut sorbet at 10:30
Fell asleep watching political rhetoric at 11pm
Went to official bed
Dreamed about Mister Ed
The talking horse TV show
Told my wife about it at 3am
She was partially asleep
Had never heard of Mister Ed
She’s a UK product
Told me I was crazy
Tossed and turned after that
Took melatonin at 4am
Finally fell asleep at 6am
Up at 8
The moral of the story ?
Duh
Beats me
The Pumpkins | Angel Edwards
The pumpkins are a family
just as it sounds
a fun family of pumpkins
a four piece family
Mom Pumpkin
Dad Pumpkin
and their children
Jolly Pumpkin
Grinn Pumpkin
identical twins
They all liked
to wear a fancy hat
but their heads
were too round
to keep a hat on
Green stems and roots
served as shoes and boots
steadily on the ground
the pumpkins got around
There was a lot to be seen
in Pumpkin Town
circus of flowers
a merry go round
They took turns
carving each other’s faces
Mrs.Pumpkin carved
Mr. Pumpkins face
into a worried frown
Mr. Pumpkin didn’t like this
He screamed the place down
Jolly came to the rescue
made it into a smile
Mr Pumpkin’s mouth
stretching for a mile
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Twinkling Lights | Ian Lewis Copestick
The sky is dark purple
And I can’t see a single star
The only things twinkling
Are faraway orange streetlights
On the horizon
It still looks pretty good though
Even if they are man made
And not the type of things
That people usually get
Romantic about
A twinkling light is a twinkling light
At the end of the day
Living in a run down environment
You have to take your romance
Wherever you can get it
Autobiography | Stan Morrison
I gave mrs fields my recipes, advised ann landers
I later served in the army under colonel sanders
I went to junior high with dr sholls, and then
I graduated rice university with uncle ben
I also dated Julia child
until things got too wild
she said she was on a mission
and I had to get outa the kitchen
in my opera debut I played palyacho
I knew all the greats and the not so
many more memories to mention
thank you for your kind attention
….and that’s the truth!
Animal Kingdom | Stan Morrison
how do you pronounce the e in giraffe
what exactly makes the hyenas laugh
rabbits are silent, wiggling their nose
sniffing for carrots or maybe a rose
i’ve noticed cats just stick with meow
wanting to say more, not knowing how
elephants play trumpets, raccoons on bassoons
they’re forming a band and will be ready soon
Three Fantasy Haiku | Denny E. Marshall
alternative world
meet current secretary
of state flower
star drops rope ladder
into wormhole
lost climb out
make wish, Genie said
i said I wish you showed up
twenty years sooner