Collecting Rhymes Gifts

'We're out of blackbirds -- how about four-and-twenty hamburgers?'

'Houston, I'm prepared to land...'

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

"You're lost. This is Mom's apple pie."

'She barely made it out of the atmosphere... next!'

The Pink Bantha

Passed over at the Inaugural Poetry Audition

"And if that diamond ring don’t shine, Poppa will probably take it back to 47th Street and get something for your mother."

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"He just found that 'pillage' rhymes with 'village'."

"I told you not to invite that guy!"

How a poet works

'Sorry I'm late - I was stacked up at the airport.'

'Frankly, if all the King's men couldn't put him together again, what chance do we have?...'

'Ever thought of having the place re-carpeted?'

'The little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home and shopped online...'

Wall Street...

Love is an many splendoured thing

'By the looks of these skid marks, Humpty didn't fall- he was pushed!'

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

Shakespeare or Bacon or maybe Marlowe.

Mafia Nursery Rhymes - sorry Weazel, I'm gonna have to pop you.

"By the way, does anything other than 'trouble' rhyme with 'bubble'?"

'Right - I'm going to sue the water company!'

"The steering-committee three are we. Run it by us, and we'll see."

"Great moments in songwriting" "What if she had a little lamb?" "Maybe it follows her to school?" "Wouldn't that make the children laugh?" "Exactly."

'Tom's always been the black sheep of the family.'

'It's worse than we'd thought I'd like to call in all the kings horses and all the kings men.'

'In conclusion, the supplier who can repeat this phrase fastest with least mistakes wins the catering contract...'

"You know what? I probably could have put Humpty Dumpty back together again but I was just too pissed."

"Great news, babe. I'm on the fall schedule."

'When the bough broke, did the daycare center's insurance rates go up?'

"And this little poet cried ennui, ennui, ennui, all the way home."

'Major poets' 'Minor poets' 'Free agents'

'I really need to become a great poet while I still have time before I graduate.'