A baker was trying his #hand
At launching a rock and roll band.
He played the guitar,
And he hoped to go far.
But alas all his gig dates were panned.

#vss365 #Hand #Music #Musicians #Humor #Humour #LimerickSunday #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems #Writing

THE CON MAN AND THE DEVIL

There once was a con man of ill-gotten wealth.
Many counterfeit trophies cluttered his shelf.
He prided himself on his great mental health,
And made known to the world he’d done well for himself.

(Continued in comments)

#poetry #lightverse #devil #politicians #writesky

I guess guardian angels are fine.
I don’t know, cuz I’ve never met mine.
If I have one, it’s hiding—
No guarding, no guiding.
What I’m missing, I can not divine.

#Cassiopeian #Guardians #GuardianAngels #Angels #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems

I should write, but I've nothing to say;
Inspiration is #waning today.
My damn muse is a pill!
She won't help me until
I'm done filing my taxes. Oy Vey!

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“Come live with me and be my love” — “You dirty bugger,” she replied, “What kind of a girl d’you take me for?” I sighed. “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?” “Give over!” she admonished me, “I’d never trust a bloke who called me ‘thee’!” “You will come one day in a waver of love,” “Not bloody likely,” she sneered in my face; “Now piss off home.” And I left in disgrace.

"The Poet Tries Courting"

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What a Perfect Poem: An Alliterative Poem in the Style of Late 15th Century Flytings Pal, pardon me, but your polished verse / like a bright, burnished mirror just blanks out my vision. / When you take your turn next, I trust you'll be terse -- ...

And finally, for those who are too taken with their own poetic skills, a flyting, "What a Perfect Poem", by yours truly ...

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Welcome to Our Website: An Alliterative Poem on Point and Click Greed ... Fill out our forms, / get freebies galore / (our plan is just perfect / for point-and-click greed.) ...

"Welcome to Our Website", by yours truly ...

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Mitch's Choice: An Alliterative Poem by Richard Pierce In which the protagonist of Richard Pierce's poem, The Book of Mankey, dreams he's his dead dog Mitch, trying to figure out a game show.

"Mitch's Choice", by Richard Pierce

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Rædwald's Return: A poem in alliterative verse by Karen M.P. Carlson “Perhaps the best known ... story about Sutton Hoo is Edith Pretty’s claim she saw an armed warrior standing on top of Mound 1 long before the excavation took place” . Maybe he wanted to be found!

"Raedwald's Return" by Karen M.P. Carlson

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Lay of the Staffordshire Hoard Dragon: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine When freshly hatched, I found a hoard. / To guard my gold, I grew its size, / alert in lair ‧ laid around it ...

"Lay of the Staffordshire Hoard Dragon", by Martin Vine

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Oversold -- An Alliterative Poem by David B. Ring Ever had it up to here with marketers?

"Oversold", by David B. Ring

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King Penda’s Apache Attack Helicopters: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine ...weapons of wonder ‧ Weland crafted -- / with elven pilots, Penda’s gleaming / Apache attack ‧ helicopters ...

King Penda's Apache Attack Helicopters, by Martin Vine

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Heorot, the Early Days: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine ... Laurence Longlocks ‧ launched into revamp: / The hearth was heaved, hurled on the midden, replaced by a piece ‧ of post-modern /Scandinavian ‧ sculpture in steel ...

Heorot, The Early Days, by Martin Vine

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Horace: Epode 2 -- An alliterative verse translation of Epode 2 by the classical Roman poet Horace The fellow's worth a fortune who, far / from commerce, cultivates his fathers' / farm with his own oxen & is free / of usury -- like the folk of yore ...

Horace, Epode 2, translated by John Quinn

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Beor's Lament: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine Among the mead-cups, misery I suffered -- / Sloshed with gesiðas, smashed at the feast, / as hamstrung as Weland ...

"Beor's Lament", by Martin Vine

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In honor of April Fool's day, here's a thread of humorous alliterative poems and light verse ...

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“You are moving too much. Please hold still,”
Said a seamstress while sewing a frill
On a dress that was drab
And would never be fab,
Though it WOULD #yield a fabulous bill.

#Haikufeels #Yield #Fashion #Money #LimerickSunday #Limerick #Limericks #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Poem

I’ve a #limerick notion — a #glimmer.
It is shimmering. Damn! Now it’s dimmer.
My poor brain’s filled with frost,
And my rhyme primer’s lost.
My slim odds of success have grown grimmer.

#HaikuChallenge #Glimmer #LimerickSunday #Limericks #Humor #Writing #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse

A fellow was planning to plant
Some fruit, but his wife said, “You can’t.
I hate to sound mean,
But your thumbs aren’t green;
Seems your nurturing talents are scant.”

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A bootlicking fellow named Ross
Worked in footwear and fawned on his boss.
Many co-workers mocked him.
One gal even socked him.
He's boss now ... and she's on the sauce.

#HaikuChallenge #Fawn #Workplace #Jobs #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems

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All 7 Poems of the Week are here, on fuzzy friends, fuzzy thinking & more
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Is age just a number? Who knows?
Some say “yes.” Others suff’ring the woes
Of senescence will wage
A war against age,
To disguise the “gifts” aging bestows.

Happy Age Is Just A Number Day! (March 22)

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My treasured gold #chain has a knot,
Which I’d meant to repair, but forgot.
I returned to the #chain
Where I bought it … in vain;
Now it’s naught but a large, empty lot.

#vssdaily #Chain #Jewelry #Shopping #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems

My dear #Spring, I’m sure hoping you’ll shove
Winter out of the way. No kid #glove!
I’m impatient as hell
For a mild #weather spell.
Yours sincerely, Mad Kane, with much love.

#VssDaily #Glove #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems #SpringEquinox

Many newlyweds blithely assume
They can #change irksome traits of their groom.
But they rarely, if ever,
Fulfill this endeavor...
Brides beware! This may well lead to doom!

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Change #Marriage #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems

It’s a challenge to bridge the large gap
Between parties who’d rather just #flap
And complain that they’re right,
While their rivals just fight
Cuz they’re mean. So I’d rather just nap.

#vssdaily #Flap #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Poems #Arguments

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All 6 #PoemsOfTheWeek are here:
#TimothéeChalamet #MarcoRubio #draft #TrumpAndDraft #draftdodger #oldage #aging #brainhealth #cats #Taliban #Afghanistan #humor #comedy #satire #limericks #poetry #poetrycommunity #lightverse #funnypoems #parody
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The math’matical constant called #Pi
Is Greek to your average guy.
“Transcendental,” some call it,
But most people maul it;
Comprehension is pie in the sky.

Happy #PiDay!

#Math #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems #PoetryCommunity

Though it's Friday the 13th today,
Please don't buy its "unlucky" cliché:
It's an unfounded notion
That rates no devotion...
Oh My God! A black cat's in my way!

#FridayTheThirteenth #FridayThe13th #Limerick #Limericks #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Verse #Poems #Superstition

Our new neighbor insists we should weed
And refuses to even concede
That a weed can have beauty.
That gal is too snooty.
Methinks that her soul’s gone to seed.

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