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Opaque Poetry

When a young lady named Lake

Said “your poetry is very opaque!”,

I wrote one in Latin

About girls in pink satin

Who keep wicked old poets awake …!

Byron and the Siren

When a young man known as Byron

Went and dated a sexy young Siren,

They found his socks

On some treacherous rocks.

But there was no sign of Byron …!

 

My Mother in Law

When a plucky young man known as Moore

Went and insulted my mother in law,

And my wife Mrs White

Said, “challenge him to a fight!”,

I said, “but she is a terrible bore!”

As a Child

As a boy, I knew the nursery rhyme

“The cow jumped over the moon”.

Then, as a man, I learned too soon

That “the cat and the fiddle”

And the jumping bovine, are conquered by time.

Yet, like the child, I find

Rapture in rhyme.

Siren Song

Man may ask

“Tie me to the mast”.

But when Sirens call

From the rocks

Many a man’s passion unlocks

And he falls

And is forever lost.

Midnight Knock

When a young lady named Moore

Went and knocked at a midnight door,

I recall how Bishop Paul

Said, “we all sometimes fall”,

As he opened that midnight door …

 

When an Extremely Pushy Young Lady of Malaysia

When an extremely pushy young lady of Malaysia

Demanded that we all go and praise her,

A man from Liverpool

Called her a fool,

And got praised by the people of Malaysia!

 

Sunlight

The sunlight falls

On Whitehall’s walls.

Some regret the sunset.

But all fires die.

And I delight

In morning light

And Kipling who foresaw

Empire might not endure

Barking Up the Wrong Tree

When my dog friend said to me,

“You are barking up the wrong tree!”,

I said to him, “Mark,

I am unable to bark!

And you can not climb that tree!”