Category Archives: Poems

Sometimes Inspiration Doesn’t Help

There once was a writer’s-blocked poet

Who needed to write but didn’t want to blow it.

He Googled “poetry prompt generator”

And five minutes later

Took a photo of the prompt, and here he will show it:

Really, internet? Really?

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Pixar Lamp Has A New Rival

By chance a man died at a hardware store.

He dropped hundreds of lamps all over the floor.

Detectives had no idea how he ended up dead

But then a light bulb popped over their head!

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What’s Holding You Back?

There is a wall between the grass

That’s greener than our own,

That’s free of weeds and full of dew

And smells so freshly mown.

There’s a man who wants to climb

The wall, but has no rope.

He’s laughed at by the man who has no hands.

Crying in the shadows

Is a man who has no hope

And one who has no time to climb

Because of life’s demands.

One man has no body

Since he died a year ago

And another has no body

For he was never born at all.

Last among the dreamers

And the lowest of the low

Is the man who loves the grass beyond

But is five-foot-eleven tall.

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What Your Teacher Is Really Thinking About

I remember when saying “Thank you Ma’am”

Was polite, not a micro-aggression.

I recall when when “Boys and girls”

Was how you called kids to attention.

I was there when, instead of a mask,

We taught kids to cover their cough.

Now I work and stay quiet ‘cause I can’t deny

It is nice to still get summers off.

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Yes, It Was A Number 2

I never knew what would happen

If you stabbed wood and graphite

On the end of a fork-like utensil,

So I did it and swallowed.

I was shocked by what followed:

The next day I pooped out a pencil!

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If Only The British Had An Army Of Sentient Bears, America Might Never Have Existed #ThingsFootballTaughtMe

One day in ye olde Boston faire

Some guys had a tea party there.

Then some bears mauled them… mean!

33 to 14

And yeah, the analogy ends there.

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Lazy Evening… Sue Me

Sitting by the fire

And my Seahawks won today.

Long day, short poem.

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Morning At The Vineyard

It’s morning at the vineyard

And the weather’s looking fine!

We sing hurrah and pick syrah

By bunches off the vine.

There’s Malbec for our jelly

And cabernet for wine,

Filling bucket after bucket

With pickers numbering nine.

My girl may have partaken

Of a bottle from last year.

The leaves stay green and limber

Though its fruit will disappear.

With truck beds full and spirits high

We loose a mirthful cheer!

Now we’re on the highway home

With the pickers we hold dear.

Tomorrow we’ll de-stem the lot

And barrel it to wait

Until next year’s excursion

Or ‘til 2028.

It’s a family tradition

So we all participate,

Bottling mornings in the vineyard,

Packing memories by the crate.

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Let’s Go Brandon

The economy’s so deep in the tanks

That starving kids in Santiago

Are offering prayers of thanks

That they weren’t born in Chicago.

Meanwhile, the Mormons of Utah

And the Amish of Pennsylvania

Are saying “we got to scoot, yah”

And moving to Albania.

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Now You Know Why DeerDon’t Use iPhones

There once was a buck from Melrose

Who smelled something sweet with his nose.

His friends said “That crap’ll

“Most oft be an apple.

“Forget it. Let’s go out and win does.”

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