Nonsense Poem Lover Gifts

'How will we know we've reached the land where the bong-trees grow - we've never seen a bong-tree!'

"Are you colour-blind? Pea-green, I said, not monochrome!"

"Meet The Author"

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

John Bunyan

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Dating an English Major

"She'll have a semi-wizened, double ristretto with a dot of quail's milk - and please recite a poem while you make it."

"Oh, this old thing?"

Through the Looking Glass - Queen Alice with Frog

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

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

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

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

'Love me little, love me long.'

"It's a Haiku Dinner."

"Just what is a runcible spoon?"

Voltaire

You made me love you.

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

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

Mother Goose's Haiku

Frank and Ernie's Poetry Corner. Robert Frost. TV Guide. I think I'll watch some late-night comedy

For sale, beautiful pea green boat.

Heaven

We regret to inform you that your poem, "The Ramen," does not meet our publishing needs at this time. The short, frustrating career of Edgar Allan Typoe.

"Wait, Carl, come back, this one is definitely about you."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and Rachel took the one less traveled... Huge mistake."

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I... I... I..."

A dream of consequence

For our eco-night entertainment we have Kim's "Dance Against Global Warming," Zahir's "Rap for the Eco Cure" and Twig's "Post-Carbon Poetry Slam." How about you, Jason? I'll explain metal organic vapor deposition in solar panels. Well! We'll see who's into heavy metal.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It's okay for a first draft, Thomas, but it'll be much better if you make it rhyme!