Lugubrious Limerick

A chap said with rather a smirk,
Go out if at home you can’t work –
Ride buses and planes,
Even bug-ridden trains …
Everyone thinks he’s a berk!

 

 

image: Dreamstime.com

source: agree from https://randomwordgenerator.com

Deadline

pretend you are permitted just one message
and all that you ever meant to say is now
restricted to
a few last words – allow yourself a vital
gasp of air while whirling emotions seek to
resolve themselves into fresh phrase
and novel sentence and the moment of truth draws near –
please, you cry, more time required for anything approaching
honesty! none left? oh well, then, something to do with love …

 

 

image: YouTube

source: paragraph from https://randomwordgenerator.com

Nine Lives

Inspired by a reply to my previous post, I resolved to write an acrostic verse with just one word per line. Here is Michael Halliwell’s succinct poem, itself inspired by this charming photo:

 

 

Picture
Us
Sleepily
Surveying
You –

Come
And
Tickle

 

Purr-fect, isn’t it?

I think the art is in its simplicity. Often harder than it looks to marry grammatical sense and apt comedy in a few words!

So when I hit https://randomwordgenerator.com and got discovery, well, my quill wilted. So to speak. It’s not a very funny word.

But then again, just now, it’s not a very funny world.

I try to be hopeful, of course. But in case hope should fall short, this post ends with another cat picture.

Dare I suggest a caption competition? Or even some more one-word-per-line acrostic poems?

 

disaster
is
sudden
creation
of
variable
economic
responses
yesterday

 

 

 

 

images: Pamper My Pet and Reddit

Now or Never

When was it ever just the
right moment to
inscribe words on paper
that were sure to shake
even the sleepiest
reader awake?

 

 

image: Pamper My Pet

source: writer from https://randomwordgenerator.com

no hiding place

going the rounds
online game
somebody outed
sudden shame
it bites back
pursuit of fame

 

 

image: http://www.waitsel.com

source: gossip from https://randomwordgenerator.com

 

 

Too True!

So tell us the answer,
oh please
let us know –
unless it’s
too leftfield,
in which case, please go –
or else find a
new one that won’t stop the show!

 

 

And that would have been that if I hadn’t seen the news photos of empty supermarket shelves that used to stock toilet rolls and found a new solution acrostic coming to mind:

sometimes there’s a problem
of such magnitude that
little folks like
us must put our heads
together to
investigate a way
out and
not race one another to the, er, bottom …

 

 

images: betanews.com and Forbes

source: solution from https://randomwordgenerator.com

Where?

plastics don’t pollute our waters –
rhythms of slow seasons rock –
every species finds a foothold
free from artificial shock –
elemental nature governs
rules of tidal ebb and flow –
experts track down earthly truths
not cloudy claims they’re in the know –
create this world of balance restored –
elect anyone not too easily bored …

 

 

image: The Conversation

source: preference from https://randomwordgenerator.com