Tag: humor
group name: poemcentral
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September 14, 2007 07:07 PM EDT --
Hawks
Search for
Plump juicy chickens
For breakfast, lunch, and dinner
They crave fresh meat from daylight to dark
So at times they must settle for just a big black nasty rat
This is known . . .
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December 04, 2007 01:22 PM EST --
Santa is just an old far m boy
No more lukew arm milk for him
Now don't get al arm ed over this
But playing Santa is just a whim
. . .
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September 17, 2006 08:23 PM EDT --
I remember drinking a Pickwick Ale
at the foot of Mt. Monadnock
And one in a bar on Church Green in Boston
where dejected men sat and drank what was . . .
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September 22, 2007 08:01 AM EDT --
Hailstones hit the tin roof
Sounding like machine gun fire
Chickens scatter in all directions
Darkness and fear cover the hen house
Chickens scatter in all directions
Sounding like machine gun fire
Hailstones . . .
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April 12, 2008 10:49 PM EDT --
Although sleep keeps calling me back
The feel of whiskers on my face beckons
I try softly brushing them away
They disappear but are back again in seconds
I turn over and . . .
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January 09, 2008 08:53 PM EST --
I felt my face began to p ale
As I looked down at that sc ale
That number it did imp ale
Forced me to deeply inh ale
I took me to the latest . . .
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April 25, 2008 08:54 AM EDT --
F ACT IONS
You may think I act a bit abstr act
Act ually that's just my char act er
I sometimes re act without any t act
. . .
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July 17, 2007 10:23 AM EDT --
I'm feeling rather yucky;
My sinuses are dripping.
and if I felt like getting up,
a hot toddy I would be sipping.
My head feels like a bowling ball,
my throat feels like raw meat,
and . . .
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March 31, 2008 08:44 AM EDT --
BOSTON. As the plenary session of the American Association of Librarians annual convention wound down here yesterday afternoon, the long faces some attendees wore were not the result of dog-eared . . .
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September 01, 2007 05:15 PM EDT --
Near the milk counter
I saw a package of swiss
Land on the waxed floor
Fleeing from the country store
He thought he was free
Until he met an old tom cat
Consumed in seconds
Swiss Cheese has one . . .
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November 14, 2007 08:48 PM EST --
F AIR GAME
My friends all say, don't desp air
But my heart needs some rep air
I want more then an aff air
Some sweet prince with golden . . .
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February 23, 2008 06:05 AM EST --
The Gather Guides received a letter invitation to a picnic celebrating their vacation
They of course assumed it was indoors, since it was being held in International Falls
Although it was February . . .
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October 24, 2008 06:03 PM EDT --
Do you love your country? Michelle Bachman wants to know, as she writes down the criteria that will make every liberal groan. Do you get your information from Foxy News, for it's the best, at giving . . .
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October 27, 2007 09:30 PM EDT --
Red,
pink,
a violet hue,
neutral
or glossy...
what shall I do?
So many colors
from which to choose;
So many kinds...
how can I lose?
He said . . .
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December 21, 2007 08:09 PM EST --
Oh Santa,
I don't have to think twice;
I'm a little bit naughty
and a little bit nice.
Sometimes I'm a good girl
Sometimes I'm bad
But don't . . .
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May 26, 2007 06:34 PM EDT --
I looked in the mirror and what did I see?
Big old wrinkles looking at me,
under my eyes straight down to my neck;
I gasped in surprise and said,
"What the heck!?"
I've used . . .
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June 05, 2007 12:02 PM EDT --
I wrote this poem some time ago, but was reminded of it when I heard some folks talking about those pretty purple flowers in the country ditches.
Pretty Posies
While riding in a car one day
With . . .
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November 02, 2006 08:01 PM EST --
I miss so much on Gather.
I never have the time
I rush to my computer
and race to get online.
I'm pounding at the keyboard,
Every . . .
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September 09, 2008 09:19 PM EDT --
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana. It's 10:30 p.m. on a Saturday night, and Linda Scribner has just finished "In Love's Tender Thrall", a romantic novel of the type referred to in the trade . . .
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October 23, 2008 09:13 AM EDT --
It isn't every day I get to have lunch with a Nobel Prize-winning author. More frequently than I see Haley's Comet, which last came through my neighborhood in 1986, and isn't . . .
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