Poetry Ponderer Gifts

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"I wandered lonely as a...lonely as a...lonely as a what?"

Sometimes I wonder where I'd be if I'd crossed the road less traveled.

James Russell Lowell

Writer

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

Author £0.99 for one autograph.

'I have to write a poem about Dad. What rhymes with plonker?'

"In the room the women come and go. Talking of Michelangelo."

A poem: With daylight's shift, winter draws near...

In the 1856 poem "Maud Miller," John Greenleaf Whittier famously wrote "For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" I disagree with this, and believe Mister Whittier would see things differently if he was alive now. Living in today's world, the saddest words are "Some assembly required."

He's more into the spoken word stuff.

Shakespeare considers alternatives to iambic pentameter

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

"This 'road not taken' where we're going for dinner, was she also a road not travelled?"

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

'... And some primitive cultures, believed that 'the great ones' modelled us from clay.'

In/Out/These Things Happen.

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

'Things have really livened up down there since You introduced SEXUAL reproduction.'

The Philosopher Pine, or, The Eternal Optimist.

Chiller Theatre

"Have you been playing dice?"

'According to creation mathematicians, all of Euclid's theories were originally found etched into rocks.'

"Intelligent design...well, duh!"

'Oh, so now the ocean isn't GOOD enough for you?'

"Darling, I think we need to talk about where this relationship is going..." Male evolution.

Sauce for the Goose

"We'll destroy it to the ground ... ...and then..."

A man deflates and dissolves into the ground and becomes a flower.

Freudian Bar & Grill...Jungian Pub: 'We can out drink those Freudians ant day of the week!...'And twice on Sunday!' ...'Yeah!' ... e

"When we're home, are we still aliens?"

"Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study."