Free-verse Poetry Enthusiast Gifts

'A lesbian free-verse poet on welfare, eh? - I can respect that.'

"Meet The Author"

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

"Now I really hate poetry."

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

John Bunyan

Blue Stockings - Female poet who has not sold any of her books

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

A woman with a novel and poetry handbag.

"The rolling wheels...the ringing bells...signal the deliciousness of summer."

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

"Oh, this old thing?"

Dating an English Major

Stephen Spender.

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

Thomas Hardy

Ask not for whom happy hour ends. It ends for thee.

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

Nevermore. You don't have to use "air quoths" every time.

Archeologist Deciphers Limerick Heiroglyphs

"How do I love thee….? Let me count the ways…" "I'm going to want a recount."

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

Henrik Ibsen,

The Quack Quack Diaries: Quack Quack's Poetic Justice

Lord Byron

"It's a Haiku Dinner."

"I want you to meet What's-His-Name, the much-misunderstood writer."

The Book Lover

'Love me little, love me long.'

Sinking with your heart

T.S. Eliot lacks the courage to eat a peach.

Limerick Airport

'Not now, dear, I'm trying to listen to the Muse.'