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Thank you all! I thoroughly enjoyed reading several of these. I am nowhere near as talented in this area so I will refrain from boring you all to tears. Keep em' coming though. Nice job!

RAINING RAINING RAINING

Yes, I am complaining
That unseasonably it keeps on raining-
While it may be good for graining
I am certainly not feigning
For me it's a real paining
As drenched I can't even enjoy viewing one bird craning.

THE ROOTS OF A GEOLOGIST

I once had the urgy to be a member of the clergy

but when I came down to earth

I settled on metallurgy.



REPUBLICAN FOLLY BY GALLY

Donald Trump is a egotistical rump on the stump

While Ben Carson seems like a grump of a parson

So good luck to the the party of Sarah Palin

As its wish seems to self-destructively to keep on failin’.


CANTANKEROUS

Go ahead and call me cantankerous

After all it will only make me more angerous!

A FORUM

A Forum that has only one for a quorum
Moreum rather than less is a real snoreum.

THE BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD

Heard it zipping by I lurched and spinned.

Yet flight unseen was I chagrinned,

However once perched then viewed I grinned

at that diminutive Hummingbird Black-Chinned.


PROCRASTINATION JUSTIFICATION

I oughta, I oughta, I oughta, I oughta, I oughta….

Nah, ’cause I don’t give an iota.


A SNIPPET OF A VERSE?

I had a sharp vision

That I’d be an object of derision

If I made the decision

Not to have a circumcision.

A PARAKEET BY ANY NAME???

A “parakeet” is really a budgie.

and a “conure” is truly some specie of a parakeet,

But even with a verbal nudgie,

What you call them they could give a bleat.


HILLARY CLINTON #2

Do not count me among those in that gallery,

but for many it’s impossible to swillary what so sayeth Hillary,

so they prefer that she just be pilloried.

TABBOULEH

Since I find bulgur vulgar

and parsley garsley,

I always boohla when served any tabbouleh.

So to eat it, I can’t be bribed with any amount of moolah.


A GERMAINE GERMAN

A germane German while meditating

Mainly maintains his mantra.


TO RANTULA

To rant!…To rant!… To rant!…

Here comes a tarantula!… Here comes a tarantula…Here comes a tarantula!…


THE MERGANSER

You can try to duck this anser.

What is a merganser?

ALFALFA SPROUTS

How abouts some alfalfa sprouts?
Only if you want to see me pouts!


AMERICANIZED CHINESE FOOD

For Egg Foo Yung no wonder no song has been sung

but as for Chop Suey if there were one

It would just be so much MSG’d gooey hooey.


CUMIN

A diet consisting of only cumin

Would be considered inhuman.


MUNG BEANS

it’s not far flung to come to the culinary conclusion

Without any sense of confusion

That beans named mung will remain unsung

and in most households a legume unseen,

thus ungtasted by any tongue.


MATZOS

Here’s an unleavened question:

Whatsos Matzos?


ROUX

If in a stew or ragout you forget the roux

That may be a dish that making you will rue,

but if you add too much you’ll just end up with glue.


OFFAL

I’m a beliver in truth in advertising when it comes to offal,

be it brains, heart, kidney, tongue, trotter,lungs, tripe. or ear,

as they all are truly awful.


BEN CARSON

So calm and placid

With policy proposals superficially flaccid

It’s good that Ben Carson does not Trump-like rant,

yet still that surgeon is in dire need of a personality transplant.


ORIOLES

The Hooded, Streak-Backed, Altamira, and Orange can look quite similar,

So when my wife sees one or the other or the other or the other,

Excitedly and hurriedly she exclaims “oh, oh, oh.”

Thus, I know she’s seen some lovely named but nameless Oriole.


THE COOT


With an attitude displaying more pluck than any duck,

Often heard cavorting in some oozy muck,

This pond swimmer is seldom mute,

and is very cute when along the water it does comically skimmer and scoot,

Yet is so very common when viewed nary a birder gives a hoot.

LITTLE SHU-SHU'S OBSESSION

I recently rescued an abandoned pup I named Chiqui

Who our non Shih Tzu pooch Little Shu-Shu finds rather Icky

Since the other day she was eating Shu-Shu’s moo shu

So Shu-Shu is being quite tricky in trying to get her to shoo shoo.


THE NEW GNU

The new gnu knew not that it was a blue wildebeest its mother had just wrought.


DURIANS

The thought of eating a durian makes me hinky

As they are beyond stinky

and makes me yearn for a Twinkie.


ALFALFA SPROUTS

How abouts some alfalfa sprouts?

"Only if you want to see me pouts!"


THE PRESEDENTIAL DEBATES

It seems that the candidates are only filled with hates that they spates,

So heaven help us if to them we entrust our fates

As the best that they can proffer are petty slates-

Thus on my nerves they really really really grates.


BUSYNESS

The business of suburban life is busyness.

THE FIERY-BILLED ARACARI (AH-RA-SAH-REE)

I or we or less than a few can ever be sorry

if one view can this colorfully gorgeous toucan

Known as the Fiery-Billed Aracari.


THE BROWN PELICAN

A Pelican has got quite a gut

As loads and loads of fish to hold its bellican

and when unloaded it may smellican.


SPAM

Canned spam is a pseudo ham.

Electronic spam is a nouveau sham.

Now that you have that knowledge,

All that’s left is to put both in the garbage.


TWITTER

Twitter Twitter…

Fritter Fritter…


SERENDIPITY

The bad chance of happenstance merits only a wary glance,

While the good luck of serendipity elicits a yipptity, if not also a flippitty!


DONALD TRUMP STILL?!?!?!

Go ahead and be an angry and irresponsible chump

Vote for power hungry and irrepressible (?) Donald Trump.


PURPLE

Who says it’s hard to find a rhyme for purple?

What about maple slyrple?


CRACKERED

My parrot always wants a Ritz cracker.

If not received she becomes a screaming high pitched yacker.

Then all I want to do is smack her.


DEFEETED

Sometimes it seems as I verse with my feet,

Alas nothing composed is feted.

At those times I feel real defeated.


TRUMPED

Donald Trump the egotistical grump on the stump want to register every Muslim.

I just wish they’d permanently wrap his mouth with muslin.

THE MOCKINGBIRD

The Mockingbird is a talking bird

Who imitates many a word

and if it’s heard

It’s hard to not end up gawking,

Whether or not it’s what you’ve been stalking.


THE NATURE OF SOME PEOPLE

Some people upon seeing a turtle it they may hurtle

or a rabbit they may try to grab it

or an opossum or two they will toss ’em

and a bat they might take a bat at it

but,oh dear, when it’s a snake in fear they just quake.


THE VEERY

I’m not in much of a rush to see this thrush

as the Veery looks veery ordineery.


MIXING CULTURES

I wish I had a high IQ.

Then I’d be able to compose some haiku.

Instead all I do is make dim sum.


THE MONTEZEUMA OROPENDOLA

Did you see that clownish looking Montezeuma Oropendola as it zoomed on by?

It dependola’s whether or not you blinked.