POMES!
Original light verse from the new illustrated compendium of the same name.
YES to YOU
It may be so
That happiness
Is less of no
And more of yes.
For the Pedestrian
Ad astra, friend, though you might forget
To look up while you're in your muddle:
Take heart, for at your very feet
The stars may be filling a puddle.
Insight for the Human Organism
With overmuch stress, an amoeba will die;
With too little, the outcome's the same.
The trick lies in compassing somewhat of each
Without quite destroying the game.
Stray Thought for Stray Thinkers
If broke, you're called a crackpot;
If wealthy, you're "eccentric"—
But note what easy targets are
The rest who are concentric.
Stepping Up to the Universal Bar
While the pessimist gripes that his glass is depleted,
The optimist laughs that the pessimist's drunk.
The physicist nervously gets herself seated
And ponders there's even a glass to be thunk.
Fate with Brush
No matter how much I contend for dominion
Again in my hour of strife,
My mirror reflects its untoward opinion
That mine is a bad-hair life.
Art Is Relative
“‘What is art?’?
What is not?”
urged Picasso
on the spot.
But, “Poetry?”
reminds the poet?
“A tree we’d artless be
to grow it.”
Ode to Aubergine
(A Tribute to Gelett Burgess)
The neighbors own a purple car;
They think it’s such a laugh to.
But trade it in or take it far?
I’d rather laugh than have to.
The Purple Cow
by Gelett Burgess
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
Funeral Parlance
What's left of his hair is gray,
And they say he looks quite distinguished;
But he's rather a bit rosier now than he was,
Now that he's quite extinguished.
On Vision and Revision
(For Aspiring Optimists Only)
A tunneled apple signifies,
To most of us, a bad surprise.
But think how worm abbreviated
Proves such apple highly rated.
