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As the Wind Blows

As the wind blows

The sunshade creaks

And windchimes discordantly speak.

Who knows

Where all this goes

When I sleep.

A Critic Named Green

I once read a critic named Green

Who was famous on the poetry scene.

He wrote my verse

It grows steadily worse.

Now he’s vanished from the poetry scene …

Superior

I can be snobby and proud.

I lose myself in crowds

But rarely feel part of them.

Sometimes I feel myself superior

To other men.

But when my final breath

Is lost in death

There will be

No inferior or superior

Just common dust

When I Dated a Young Lady in Waiting

When I dated a young lady in waiting

Who said, “sir, are you fond of mating?”.

I said, “my dear Yvette!

We have only just met!”.

She said, “never keep a young lady waiting …!”

 

 

Sceptical Claire

When a sceptical young lady named Claire

Found a ghost sitting in her chair,

She said, “I must be drunk

As I’m imagining  a ghostly monk!”.

And that ghost he glared at Claire!

Secrets

When a young lady named Miss Moon

Trusted me with all her secrets yesterday afternoon,

I told her about Lou

Who works in a zoo

And moonlights as a stripper on Saturday afternoons!

I Hear the Sound

I hear the sound

Of timeless windchimes

As workmen hammer away.

Sometimes the profound

Is hard to say

So poets rhyme

Of windchimes

In late August

For all this must

Pass away.

 

A Poet Named Cotton

There once was a poet named Cotton

Whose poetry has long since been forgotten.

I once met a pig

Who didn’t give a fig

For me or the poetry of Cotton!

Bill Who Lived on a High Hill

There once was a man named Bill

Who lived on a very high hill.

His young mistress Sally

Lived in a valley

And his wife she lived with Bill!

The Anarchic Wind

I am a plaything

In the arms

Of the whispering wind.

She has charms.

Her summer breeze teases

Bringing delight.

But those who fight

The wind

When she is wild

Will find themselves a helpless child

Locked tight in arms

That have lost all their charms

And will pray

For the ungovernable wind

To stay her anarchic play

And the summer breeze

To gently tease once more.

But put no store

In that wild fickle thing,

The eternal wind.