Poems Archive

He made a joke about a seed
One fallen from an oak
We didn’t laugh because we thought
It was acorny joke
 

Rambo the rhino got teased and was weeping
His dad said, “You’re soft!” and “This isn’t in keeping
With all of your peers and your sisters and brothers
Why can’t you be thick-skinned like all of the others?”

The pygmy electrician contemplates his unemployment
His state of malnutrition militates against enjoyment
He’s not afraid of work, in fact, he’s never known to shirk it
But every time he tries he synthesizes a short circuit

My barber joined up with a very strange cult
With a sad, but predictably shocking result
I watched the man’s sanity slowly unhinge
And he gave all his clients a lunatic fringe

Radish the rabbit is hopping as mad as a hatter
Whose hat has been munched by a goat
He’s marching with hares: Lewis, Carol and Alice,
Protesting they don’t have the right, yet, to vote

Fudgy the budgie is no longer pudgy
His owner has bought an adorable cat
If you looked like lunch, I’ve a Notre Dame hunch
You’d be trying to lose all your fat!

Penelope has never had a boyfriend or a lover
It seems the task of finding one is simply way above ’er
Her mother says if she don’t find a husband ere December
She’ll kick her out the house so hard she won’t even remember!

Of this short verse I am the poet
But I have no desire to show it
So I will say I think it’s dim
And it was writ by Sue de Nym

A roll of the eyes and a shake of the head
Are a poetic punmaker’s butter and bread
The louder the groaning, the broader my grin
My Loonyverse beckons, why wait? Come on in!
 

When I sit and I picture the little blind mole, he
Is down in the darkness ensconced in the hole
He has dug since the day he was born
And I wouldn’t have known that he lives in his tunnels