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Xmeecosmic, your verse continues to amuse me. Some of them are almost of blend of Ogden Nash and Piet Hein.

Thanks Mona for the compliment, but I have to admit I'm a Piet behind the Hein(es) and had to look him up-most impressive!

YOU SEE,YA CAN'T PLEASE EVERYONE, SO YA GOT TO PLEASE YOURSELF

There's a gentleman who started a post on a political forum
Who Trumpling on me considers all of my verse there to be "spam"
To the point that he feels I am a "childish" sham,
but at night I don't toss and turn even though my poems he doesn't adoreum.

Hello there! I have just come back to earth from a trip around the galaxies and still need to sort out what is what! Ah ... to be home again Lestie!

Heard in a boredroom somehwhere...

"Oh dear Smithers, I do hope you don't take what I've just said as an insult?"

"Oh no Sir! For it to be an insult I'd have to value your opinion."

Cheers now

Lestie, welcome back to planet Earth!

GOP-ped

Since his followers aren’t exactly rational

True believing in that unfounded trash n’ all,

They keep on supporting that espouser of the Enquirer National-

So adios Republican Party as it takes a Great Big Fall unfathomable.

Lestie and xmee, good to see you both. I am going to be posting aplenty today. Maybe I will rise like cream to the top! It will be a short rise, but could be fun! I am hot and feelin the Bern today!

Hi Connie, glad to see you're back in the full swing of things and berning away!

THE HOODED MERGANSER

What little duck is extravagantly crested?

“Er, er I don’t know.”

Why it’s the hooded merganser.

“I shooded gotten that anzer!”


THE BOBOLINK

I think, I think, I think…

The one bird I want to see is the striking male bobolink.

So into the grasslands I shall slink,

but with my luck I’ll miss him when I blink.


THE GERBIL

Into my tea pot unbeknownst to me dropped a gerbil.

Soon to my disgust I discovered it wasn’t a bit herbal.


OSHKOSH B'GOSH

Every time I see a saccharine ad for Oshkosh B’gosh

Chagrinned I drop what I’m about to nosh

and start to get sloshed.


THE CEREAL KILLER

Liquor I’d never swiller,

but bowl after bowl of Special K I daily slay,

so you could say I’m a cereal killer.


TRUMPISM

Trumpism stands for the replacing of the values of the Red, White, and Blue.

Please, please, please tell me that ismn’t true.


HILLARY ISN"T INTO SUCH SWILLARY

If Hillary was into swillary

She could name him Donald the Fraud

or Donald the Clown Crier

or Trump the Rump

but since she is above such classless Donald foolery

You can only rest assured that Donald will never be fondled.

Gerbil infused water just sounds nasty! Clever rhymes, though.

THE CEDAR WAXWING

“What in the world is a cedar waxwing?”

Well, not so obviously then, it’s a gorgeous berry-eating bird

Known never to be fasting,

Along with exhibiting a thrilling high-pitched trilling-

So thanks for asking.


THE WILLET

When not flying this large sandpiper looks stodgy and plain,

But unlike the duck they have no reason to complain

As a willet does not have to worry about dodging a bullet,

Thus it will never ever end up in a skillet.


IRAN

It’s not that I rant

but I’d like to urge ya

to purge ya

of all your hate

for that tyrannical state

known as Iran.

So just remember to go back in time and call it Persia.


GIVING THE DEVIL HID DUE

Yes towards him I have been most critical

Considering that he is so boisterously hypocritical

but now I must admit it’s time to give the devil his due,

“So Mr. Trump you have a lovely hair-do.”


A WELL THOUGHT OUT POLICY

“Let’s deport all those Mexican immigrants!”

Why?

“Because it supports our lexicon of ignorance.”

Mona, thanks for clueing me in on Piet Hein and if you're reading this I was going to post the following verse on your Grook thread instead of here but after composing(?)it then I noticed that the Grook I chose was the last one on the thread so...


"THOSE WHO KNOW" GROOK

“Those who always

know what’s best

are

a universal pest.”

The above is a Piet Hein poetic grook

of which I can’t compose any because I’m too much of a schnook,

but at least I didn’t plagiarize it so I ain’t no crook.


GLOBAL WARMING

Manmade or not,

Let the global warming battle be fought.

All I know is when it’s really really hot

In my kitchen those darn ants keep on stoval swarming.


FELAFEL AGAIN!

The first time my wife made that Middle Eastern dish

They had so much cumin

That consuming them was cruel and inhuman,

and the next time she prepared felafel

They weren’t good

but after eating them at least I didn’t feel awful.


BLINI PLEASE

If you want to stay skinny sure you should eat zucchini,

but gram for gram

as for carbohydrates I don’t give a damn,

I’d much rather eat a ton of blini.


EVEN ANY IMPROVEMENT IN VISION WOULD BE BETTER

This is the year of the pie in the sky fraud populist.

His followers would be better off seeing even a flawed oculist.


HUH?

The Donald deserves to be demonized

As the country he wants it to be de-homogenized.

A VERSE WITHOUT PITHY


All my terse verse I consider rather pithy

but my readers just shake their heads and say “what a pity.”


CHIQUI


Our lively puppy Chiqui is very tricky

Looking for food all of the time

Since she’s not at all picky

Even the lime from a rickey,

Turning even a large meal into a quicky-

Leaving her bowl salively sticky.

All of this I find very icky

Until wagging her tail she comes up to lick me.


LITTLE SHU-SHU'S FLU


Our pooch Little Shu-Shu

Has gotten the flu.

She eschews eating any moo shu

and all she can do is go hachoo hachoo.


THE BISON


Buffaloes are very forgiving as they never feud amongst each other

Whether it be son, daughter, father or mother

Since the herd is always willing to let bisons be bisons.


THE GOOSE


When a goose takes a gander at a gander

and they choose to begin procreatively jostling,

Do you think they know that will produce a few gosling?


HUMDRUM


Ho Hum. Ho Hum. Ho Hum. Ho Hum. Ho Hum. Ho Hum. Ho Hum…

My life is so hum drum.


THE IMPRESSION OF DEPRESSION


The Impression Of Depression

When you’re down nothing is a slam dunk.

I’m in a such a damn funk.

This

is

how

far

I’ve

slunk.


A SUGGESTION FOR MR.TRUMP

Now Mr. Trump you say all what you say is not a policy proposal

but rather just a “suggestion”

Since you aren’t yet president

(perish the thought as that would be an unthinkable precedent),

Which either way for many is cause for indigestion.

Having turned into a true scary politician

Where nary you speak is a promise to keep,

For you I have a heartfelt suggestion,

“why don’t you take a flying leap.”