The Flowers That Bloom in the
Spring
Perennials prove their
persistence
after winter’s relentless
resistance.
The Learning Curve
Experience is
a remedial teacher
whom we soon forget.
Guttle Language
Whenever you guttle,
your gut’ll soon shuttle
the mash till your butt’ll
emit its rebuttal
in ways that aren’t subtle!
A Phrase by Many Other Words
Sesquipedalian prose
is a practice which everyone
knows
is pretentious profusion
of lexicallusion
for trying to rename a rose.
Pirate Weddings (You Can Dress Him Up …)
The rental tux for a pirate
sucks.
Silk patches for eyes
(one is free for blind guys);
a ring for your hook
from the nose of your cook;
though parrots look bolder,
they’ll crap on your shoulder;
a bow for one leg
ties the shoe to your peg
but you’ll itch all the while
from the leg in arrrrgyle.
The title “The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring” is borrowed from
Gilbert and Sullivan’s song of that name from their 1885 operetta “The
Mikado.” (My mom sang the nasty role of Katisha in a Chicago-area production
while I was incubating.)
“The Learning Curve” is a senryu although it’s appearance in print is a
pyramid.
“Guttle” was a new word to me when I wrote this poem in response to a
limerick on Facebook by Madeleine Begun Kane. Merriam-Webster says it means to
eat or drink greedily and noisily.
I came across the word “sesquipedalian” in a Grammar Girl Facebook post
about portmanteaus in February 2018.
The inspiration for “Pirate Weddings” was being honoured by my niece in
2016 to give her away at her wedding. As a gift from the groom, the men in the
wedding party all wore matching Argyle socks. The headshot photo I provided
previously is from that wedding.
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