Tag Archives: Puns

POEM: Hows of Worship

This poem is a tribute to the deinstitutionalization of religion into a more open space. Hows of Worship She asked What was my house of worship Who could say It is More Of a field And the pews are very … Continue reading

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POEM: The N Times? An Ode Too AI

Here is a poem a bout AI, artificial intelligence. This is a poem with ATTITUDE!  Today’s news included this: Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission. With this poem, I throw down the gauntlet to … Continue reading

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POEM: Pâté Time Is Soon Over

She re-lied Over And over Up on safety in numbers A calculating codeness Betraying her art Sow low and be holed In common denominations A loan in security As helled together Buy fences And dam banks A laundering cache Never … Continue reading

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POLITICAL POEM: Elections Bought and Souled

What due You Know choice candidates Fenced by kleptocrats And undebatable Republicrats Their exclusive promise A system fixed Throwing political parties Incorporations wee trust In-firm ideologies The body politic Under the whether Or worse yet Riddled with ballots Everlustingly powered … Continue reading

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POEM: Adumbrating My Too Sense

Teeming with errs Their egos agin They took their best shot Sow prod of themselves In citing Your poetry makes no cents As if The golf between us As driven in sanity From goad above Rather demanding A stroke of … Continue reading

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POEM: Gift Hoarse

The dumb bell rang As he looked The present Like a gift horse in the mouth And in every witch way Reckon as knot so fine Looking forward and backward Of what might be Only seconds As has been A … Continue reading

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POEM: Free Verse

You are trying Too figure out Perhaps even singularly a verse Paying sum game Never getting A head Dis integrating As a metaphysical meting Of meter and anti-meter Unmoved Object And unstoppable farce With unending meanings Crying Help Lessly under … Continue reading

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POEM: There Is Something About Dusk

There is something about dusk A gentle luminosity Embracing the culmination Of a day’s chores Twilight invites any weariness Into a slow motion space Where tomorrow is unkneaded That in-between place Where light lingers And shadows soften As a sentient … Continue reading

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POEM: As the Show Must…Go On!

As the Show Must…Go On! Desperately seeking an audience With kings, queens, and commoners Call in the troupes! Who will perform her Aspiring thespians Willing to do Shakespeare Or any low brow play right As parts are parts Whether broad … Continue reading

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POEM: Word Jonesing

She said Your poetry seems like a lot of work I said It’s less wordsmithing And more wordjonesing Or sew it would seam There is little doubt that reading my poetry takes some work.  It is commonplace in my poetry … Continue reading

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POEM: Come Alive

At a party A stranger Approaches several guests With great anticipation Won by won Not asking them The routine inquiry “What do you do for a living?” Instead asking them “What do you do that makes you come alive?” Though … Continue reading

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POEM: Unending Vocation

She summoned me To tell me Of my new job assignment I soon realized That it was Not beneath me But behind me So I moved on In my unending vocation As I was tolled This poem is autobiographical.  This … Continue reading

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POEM: A Forgetting God

Remembering God is almost as hard as God forgetting us Remembering God can be difficult.  Remembering God can be particularly difficult if we are not trying to remember God.  I believe that we all experience God, though some of us … Continue reading

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POEM: Author Author Original

Author Author Original Many great authors Veritable prose Composed Many glorified pages Of legends owed Epitomizing a theme Depicting perfect variations Epic anecdotes In firmity Contracted By edifices Of many stories I prefer the novelty Of a single sentence Unleashing … Continue reading

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POEM: Poetic License

One day I went to get my poetic license I drove them crazy with their test at the DMV Perhaps next time I’ll try NASA This poem reminds me of the scene in the movie, “Dead Poets Society,” where the … Continue reading

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POEM: She Came

She came down the street With such a scowl Such a deep… Well… One-couldn’t-imagine demeanor Her whole body Like a wrecking ball Laying waste To awe before her Everyone’s back to this wall Only hoping To escape The coming wrath … Continue reading

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POEM: Not Unlike Hope

Here is a poem about hope, sometimes on the run, sometimes on the lam.  Hope is never lost, and hope often lurks in sometimes unrespectable places. This poem has plenty of puns, hidden jewels, drama, chase scenes, and victorious poetry. … Continue reading

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POEM: Life is a 45 Record

Life is a 45 record Most of us are playing it as a 78 Or perhaps we are being played Few are old enough to get this Even fewer are wise enough Most of us lived life rushed.  For those … Continue reading

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POEM: Running Like Chickens With Their Heads Cut Off

POEM: Running Like Chickens With Their Heads Cut Off Have you ever looked a chicken in the eyes? Most of us city folk probably never have Where are you? Chickens can look quite different in the city Just the same … Continue reading

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I’d Give My Right Arm for No Arms

I’d Give My Right Arm for No Arms (bomb graphic) – FUNNY ANTI-WAR BUTTON I’d Give My Right Arm for No Arms (bomb graphic) – FUNNY ANTI-WAR BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top … Continue reading

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