~ I was angry
So I grew a tree
Now my enemy is dead…
Night Before Christmas
Fat guy in red suit comes by.
Forget reindeer names.
Satan tempted Eve.
They got kicked out of Eden.
Women really suck.
Had we enough Time
This coyness, Ma’am were no crime.
But I wan’ get laid.
The star is so neat.
What wisdom has it for me?
“Chill out,” says the star.
[sub][sup]That’s Robert Frost’s “Choose Something Like A Star” for those of you reading along at home.[/sub][/sup]
The only thing worse
Than seeing a purple cow
Would be being one.
Young Poor Evangeline
Had to leave Acadia.
Wow, what a bummer.
Poor old Gunga Din!
He went and got himself killed,
Giving me water.
We all swapped stories
En route to Canterbury
Just to kill some time.
Mermaids are singing
to themselves and other guys
got shafted again.
Oooh-ooooohhh—William Carlos Williams!
Plums in the freezer?
I didnt know they were yours.
They were damn good, though!
In Xanadu, Khan
built a stately pleasure-dome
on the river Alph.
Shakespeare
xviii
Summer’s beauty fades,
but yours will last forever
now that it’s in verse.
xxix
Sometimes life’s a bitch,
but remembering your love
makes it all okay.
cxli
You’re kind of ugly
and you don’t sing well either.
I do love you, though.
e.e. cummings:
Love humanity
For all its stupidity.
Then feel pure contempt.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
How do I love thee?
Lots and lots and lots and lots.
If I die, then, too.
Mighty Beowulf
Battled Grendel and its mom,
Died with dragon’s wealth.
This one got lost in my post, but works on preview:
e.e. cummings:
Love humanity
For all its stupidity.
Then feel pure contempt.
Freddled gruntbuggly
or plurdled gabbleblotchits
Oh, see if I don’t!
One set of footprints:
I was carrying you, dolt.
Posters for sale. Cheap!
[sup]Love this thread… kudos, everyone.[/sup]
Alice Walker
Growth in a harsh world.
I bloom for myself. You, too.
Kick-ass petunia.
Come be my brother
Fight with us St. Crispin’s Day
Or you ain’t worth jack
My beloved’s eyes
Are nothing like the sun but
I think I’ll keep her.
Three Rings for Elves. Dwarves
Got seven. Nine for humans.
One Ring: Big trouble!
And the poet’s angry follow-up:
Yes, I wrote this poem
Please do not quote it again
Or I will kill you.