October Is National Poetry Month

[sandyRoe]

Here's one I like.

 

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[Vagus]

Exactly Atheist, pretentious is the word I would use too, all a bit self indulgent in those circumstances.

[JimF]

My sex life comes in fits and starts
If it fits, it starts...

[sandyRoe]

I've never seen a purple cow

I hope I never see one

But I can tell you anyhow

I'd rather see than be one.

[naomi24]

Khandro 16.21.  Is that good?

[Atheist]

Sandy; Is that Spike?

[sandyRoe]

It could be but I wouldn't bet on it.

[sandyRoe]

No.  Gelett Burgess

[Atheist]

Naomi, I await K's answer with baited (sic) breth (sick).

I think K is more impressed by the mystical (or unintelligible) that makes you think, than the stuff you can understand that makes you think.

[Atheist]

Thanks, Sandy. I hadn't heard of him.

[sandyRoe]

Don't those 17 syllables deal with aging and death?

The writer is using a stick now, he's old, and the stick was his fathers.  He no longer needs it.

[Ken4155]

Couple of Spike's - what's not to like?

 

There Are Holes In The Sky;

 

There are holes in the sky, where the rain gets in

But they're ever so small, that's why the rain is thin

 

My Sister Laura;

 

My sister Laura's bigger than me

And lifts me up quite easily

I can't lift her, i've tried and tried

She must have something heavy inside

 

[sandyRoe]

Nor had I.

Google helped me.

[JimF]

To convey one's mood
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic

Haiku No 1 - John Cooper Clarke

[Moorea7]

He was her North, her South, her West and East,

Her Mini-Milk, her Fab, her Chocolate Feast.

But such thoughts were all packed away in a box,

From the moment she saw him wearing Crocs.

[JimF]

There was a young man from Japan
Whose limericks never would scan.
When asked why that was,
He replied "It's because
I always try to cram as many words into the last line as I possibly can."