Poems Archive

Bill, a gorilla as strong as Godzilla
Pumped iron ’til struck by catastrophe
The babes who would sigh at his shape said, “Good-bye”
When his muscles all started to atrophy

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

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

Toby the toad hopped across the main road
As if it were a river-games tournament
With a hop and a jump and a vroom and a bump
He became a Mercedes hood ornament

The potter and his girlfriend fought
She trashed his work across the floor
She called him some atrocious names
Then packed and, leaving, slammed the door

I hate procrastination
The thief of time and peace
It makes my life so difficult
Next week I’m gonna cease