Poker Face

Poker Face

Plain Dealing

There once was a woman named Ann,

So handsome she looked like a man.

She buried an ace

With her poker face

And took home the haul as she’d planned.

Ann had no dear dreams of delight,

Nor ‘visioned herself clad in white.

She weathered the test,

Cards close to her chest,

And purchased her palace sans knight.

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (“poker face”)

Mad Kane Humor Prompts (Limerick: “There once was a woman named Ann…”)

Sunday Scribblings (“big dreams”)

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Fast Lane

Fast Lane

Do you know any kinetic kids? 

Personally, I have often wondered if there is any other kind. These youngsters live in the fast lane, in perpetual motion - with no middle speed between alert and asleep.

But who would want it any other way?

My Snow Angel

My snow angel wiggles in place,

Her bottled-up vigor to trace.

But soon she will rise

To raise high her eyes

And rouse all onlookers to race.

 

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (“in the fast lane)

Meme Express (Sunday invitation to Simply Snickers)

Simply Snickers (“raise,” “rise” and “rouse”)

Theme Thursday (“bottle”)

Weekend Wordsmith (“snow angel”)

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By the Book

By the Book

Pulling His Own Weight

A Limericked Degree on an Old M.V.P.

A once famous player named Moe

Was sporting a new sort of glow.

He crowed at his wife

To blame for his strife

Instead of the stuff he would stow.

His dental appointments raised dread,

And so did his middle-aged spread.

Guess that’s the result

From joining the cult

Of reading and eating in bed.

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (“reading in bed”)

Meme Express (“dental”)

Simply Snickers (“crow,” “glow” and “stow”)

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Glassy Eyed

Glassy Eyed

Sometimes biology is hysterical. Perhaps that’s not exactly so. On occasion, those who pay for biology (or don’t) may make us hysterical. OK, that’s it.

The Glasses Apostle

by Conrad von Soest

1403

Public Domain – copyright expired

Seeing Double Trouble -

A Limericked Dare on Modern Health Care

An elderly fellow named James

File too many policy claims.

Insurers cried nix

To surgical fix,

So now James just wears empty frames.

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (“hysterical biology”)

Mad Kane Limerick Prompts (“An elderly fellow named James…”)

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Comfy Blues

Comfy Blues

Melancholy Bliss

Mystery in Rhymes for Twofold Times

Perhaps the perfect afternoons

Bear bluesy melodies, sad tunes.

We choose our hues

And lose the clues

When all we seek are blessing’s boons.

For in our mournful moments, light

May disconnect the bleakest blight.

Our saddest sighs

Oft raise our eyes

To those who may to joys invite.

Artwork:

Die Toilette

by Henri de Toulouse-Latrec

1896

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (“perfect afternoons”)

Friday Flash-55 (55 words)

Meme Express (Sunday Invitation to Simply Snickers)

Simply Snickers (“blues,” “choose” and “hues”)

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Blasting Through

Blasting Through

Poisoned Darts and Digging for Hearts

A Rhyming Shot at the Valentine’s Plot

Chalking up hearts or just gathering gold

May dictate we dig deeper than we behold.

We shoulder our shovels and wait for the bell –

With pure paranoia, we theorize hell.

Perhaps we need power tools, plugged in to roar,

Instead of a balcony tryst to abhor.

And yet, we persist with a frenzied request

To race rocky romance and hope for the rest.

Does Cupid still grin, as he draws back his bow,

Or might the wee archer aim further below?

What ethics remain for the purest in heart

When victimized sorely by his poisoned dart?

To many, the meaning of Valentine tune:

The following day cannot dawn all too soon.

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (“chalking hearts”)

Meme Express (Sunday Invitation to Simply Snickers)

Monday Poetry Train (poem/s)

One Single Impression (“gold”)

Saturday Scribes (“paranoia,” “theory,” “shovel” “power tools”)

Simply Snickers (“request,” “rest/wrest” “rocky”)

Sunday Scribblings (“ethics” or “ethical”)

Theme Thursday (“bell”)

Weekend Wordsmith (“balcony”)

Love poetry? Check out Simply Snickers, a brand-new weekly poetry prompt. Try your hand with weekly prompts!  Or, look into The Meme Express for daily blogging prompts.

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Valentine's Day Poems and More

Valentine's Day Poems and More

To mark this hearty and heartfelt occasion, here's a roundup of Valentine's Day verse - with limericks, rhymes and more. (CTRL-click each underlined title link to read the poem/s.)

Happy 

Valentine's 

Day!

Valentine's Day is Vile (A Valentine's Day Poem)

Do you love Valentine's Day or hate it? Most people have a love-hate relationship with this hearty holiday. Valentine's Day may mean romance ... or just plain meanness. To some, Valentine's Day is indeed vile.

His Perfect Passion

Poem - What is it like to love a cowboy? Can a wild West heart ever be tamed? Perhaps peril is the perfect passion. It certainly was for this daring and daunting soul.

Love Poem? Not Likely

Valentine's Day is not always hearts and happiness, fun and flowers, poetry and playfulness. Valentine's Day may be an annual reminder of love gone bad, romance lost or heartbreak. Peek at this hypothetical, parenthetical and perhaps pathetical limerick.

A Cowboy's Name - a Poetic Song on a Love Lifelong

His leather face, his steely arms, What woman could resist his charms? His mustang spirit none could tame, And now she'll only wear his name.

My Valiant Valentine

Poem for my beloved, on Valentine's Day and forever: "Though princes may harm me, In self-centered pride, My Loved One will arm me Around every side...."

A Daughter's First Love

Poem: "I bought my girl a Valentine, When she was only twelve. This one was of divine design, Not something off the shelf...."

Happy 

Valentine's 

Day!

The Father of the Bride

A friend gives his daughter in marriage today. This limericked pair marks the nuptuals and celebrates fathers of brides. Who but a parent understands the wonder, wariness, mayhem and merriment of the wedding of a beloved child now grown? 

Caught to the Quick

A Rhymed Retelling of a Photo Most Compelling - Old family photos can provide fascinating links to the past. You will never believe what happened to dear old Aunt Mae, who followed romance to the Wild West.

A Running Start - a Rhyme I Penned for a Truest Friend

My favorite friend is tall and strong; He takes me where I don't belong. We share our secrets and our joys, With him, I need no other boys. You caught my heart You caught my hand. With a running start, On you I'll land. 

A Valentines' Day Riddle

Two Valentines sit on my shelves, penned not by gremlins, nor by elves. Still, Cupid's arrow struck my heart with smiles from these two, miles apart. I wonder: Can you guess the rhyme? Who are these two of which I chime?

Happy 

Valentine's 

Day!

A Golden Birthday Girl

A Golden Birthday Girl

Here’s a tribute to a special girl, who will celebrate her golden birthday this year … entering her teen years. Love to Lizzy-Lu – a horse-lover, friend to animals and can-do girl!

Lizzy-Lu

A Limericked Piece on a Growing-Up Niece

Until she came, I never knew

Another one like Lizzy-Lu.

This sprite refined,

One of a kind,

Is all her own, full through and through.

She tackles challenge like an ace,

While setting out a daunting pace.

Both fur and fins

Bring Lizzy grins

That set a smile on any face.

In pool or school, she makes her splash,

While secreting her candy stash.

With home of boys

And all that noise,

She faces life with her panache.

Transforming into grown-up girl,

Dear towhead tomboy with a twirl –

Take this descant

From loving aunt,

And greet what future may unfurl.

“Since my youth, O God, You have taught me,
 and to this day I declare Your marvelous deeds.”

(Psalm 71:17, NIV)

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