Tag: doggerel
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January 17, 2007 02:02 PM EST --
To be a poem it must rhyme
This line would have to end with yme
But by itself that's not enuff
A poem can't be mindless fluff.
Mindless fluff is just doggerel.
Is doggerel okay? I'd hate . . .
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October 04, 2006 01:50 AM EDT --
so many broken promises... so many blatant rorts...
what is your analysis? a penny for your thoughts...
I quizzed a man of business, sitting in his store
serving both the very rich and the common . . .
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June 24, 2007 08:59 PM EDT --
The First Time I Understood the Power of Zen or as Billy Jean King would say "staying in the Now"
I had always thoroughly detested doing the dishes. I think it might be that I never got . . .
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January 05, 2008 02:51 AM EST --
The Compass
Essential to guide aman's travels,
In journeys o'er seaand the land.
Its needle, a simplereminder
O' the Power insideevery man.
If each could onlyremember, . . .
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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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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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October 29, 2009 07:09 PM EDT --
There once was a young man who from date of birth
Showed promise of one day achieving great worth.
His parents sure thought so, his teachers did too--
He’d really be something . . .
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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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September 03, 2009 08:09 AM EDT --
Portable crappers, and phat gangsta rappers
Overdressed lawyers, who think that they're dapper
Blonde second wives who are festooned with bling-
These are a few of my least favorite . . .
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October 21, 2009 06:39 PM EDT --
Where does the foam from the lattes go?
I’m not being flip-I want to know.
When I don’t say “no foam” at the espresso bar
It sticks . . .
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January 22, 2009 08:58 AM EST --
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World.
"A . . .
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January 24, 2009 03:55 AM EST --
Call me crazy, but I like to write poetry. For cats.
Cats are a good training ground for poets. They are largely indifferent to poetry, like the overwhelming majority of people, . . .
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May 01, 2009 09:05 AM EDT --
It was the form letter that sent me over the edge. "Thank you for submitting your poem to plangent voices, " it began. "Please excuse the form letter, but due to the volume . . .
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October 25, 2009 12:47 PM EDT --
A rainy Saturday afternoon in the offices of plangent voices, the poetry quarterly I helped found nearly three decades ago, and from which I was summarily ousted in a hostile takeover in the early . . .
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January 05, 2009 01:02 PM EST --
In the Pipes
(To the tune of " In the Pines ")
In the pipes, in the pipes, there lie all of my gripes
They freeze when the cold wind blows
In the pipes, in the pipes, there . . .
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December 20, 2008 03:23 PM EST --
Elizabeth Alexander, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, has been selected to read an original poem at President-elect Barack . . .
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January 02, 2009 09:31 PM EST --
(a poem whose title alone is longer than a haiku)
On Boston Common, one fine Sabbath
A horrid sound heard I;
It caused all but the stony deaf
To turn their heads to spy
From whence . . .
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February 14, 2009 11:31 AM EST --
I grew up surrounded by females. My dad owned a women's clothing store. Both of my sisters were girls, and my mom was a woman. We had two female cats whose names--Big Kitty and Baby . . .
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February 18, 2009 08:03 AM EST --
Federal agents are warning leaders at top universities to be on the lookout for foreign spies or potential terrorists . . .
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August 21, 2009 07:52 AM EDT --
BOSTON. Jack Flavin is an untenured "gypsy" professor who tries to keep body and soul together by teaching wherever he can among the Boston area's many colleges and universities, but most months . . .
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