Tag: humor
group name: poemcentral
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December 23, 2009 11:42 PM EST --
North wind with Jack Frost and wayward winds
Santa loading sleigh, but let’s begin
Good little tykes and terrible twos
Awareness sets in, eyes sparkle truth
This never escapes your inner . . .
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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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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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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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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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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 19, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
There are two types of people--those who "get" poetry, and those who don't.
My wife is honest, nay proud that she is one of the first type.
I, on the other hand, was once forced by . . .
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July 28, 2008 03:41 PM EDT --
FAIRFAX, California. Kay Ryan, the newly-annointed poet laureate of the United States, vowed today to use the enormous powers of her office to strike back at the "snobs" who kept her out . . .
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December 15, 2009 08:07 AM EST --
Into the library,
Book bag, shoulder-slung,
Who should I spy
With my snow-blinded eye?
A red-suited greeter:
Ho Ho Ho. Ho. . . .
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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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October 26, 2007 08:15 AM EDT --
NEW YORK. The small circle of top Wall Street takeover lawyers is a highly competitive bunch, and for good reason. "If you get one big deal, it can mean a multi-million dollar year," . . .
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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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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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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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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 22, 2009 03:48 PM EST --
News item: A Boston-area radio station began playing Christmas music on Veteran's Day this year, the earliest date ever.
Holiday people, being too cheerful. I'd like to give one or two a good . . .
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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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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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