Verse Versing Vagabond Gifts

Poet's Corner

"First Lady Lettuce goes missing, then Colonel Crouton followed by Reginald Radish... Great Caesar's Ghost! Someone is making a salad!"

'They say you have to drink 4 times as much merlot as pinot noir to get the same level of anti-oxidants. Isn't that just too, too bad?'

Poetry in motion - Runners quoting poems as they jog.

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

Poetry Buff.

If poets wrote road signs.

Alexander Pope

Walt Whitman sounds his barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

The Poet.

'You're an interesting combination of shallow and thick.'

'The brochure says their wines are distinctive. I think I know why.'

Richard Graves.

'Your poetry totally captures the raw, primitive essence of the writing workshops you've attended.'

"Hi honey, could you run by the bookstore on the way home? We're almost out of poetry."

"This jury finds the accused not guilty provided he tells us where he has hidden the money."

Ezra Pound

Warriner's Efficient Poetry

Great Urban Sprawl

"It's for weird minds - they're not wired like mine...oh! I'm a poet and didn't know it!"

'Then it's agreed. It doesn't have to rhyme.'

Beware of Doggerel

"Ask not for whom the refrigerator hums..."

A.E. Housman

"I believe doctors write too many prescriptions, Mr. Martin. I'm writing you a sonnet."

"Dear Brenda Walshe, I'm afraid that this foundation strongly discourages grant proposals in rhyming couplets."

'No wonder they call themselves Miracle Vineyards. The label says this red is 50 Merlot, 50 Cabernet and 50 Sangiovese.'

"If you ask me, his poetry has gone down hill since he started writing in metaverse."

"I like to think of myself as a free-range human being."