Margaret Owen Ruckert: A Piece Of Cake?
A cake simply bursting with glee
contains lemon, and sugar, and Brie,
but people protest
when there’s not enough zest.
Making cheesecake is no cup of tea!
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Steven Kent: For STC
Polymath, golymath
Sam Taylor Coleridge—
Poet, philosopher,
Genius, unique.
Coined a new term, to wit,
Psychosomatic: the
Language that all hypo-
Chondriacs speak.
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Peggy Verrall: Consoling Consideration
Year by year, my horizons are shrinking;
I spend ages just sitting and thinking.
But there are skills that grow –
For example, I know
I can nap now as easy as winking.
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Tracy Davidson: Clerihew
Professor Brian Cox
Made music that rocks
But swapped showbiz depravity
For space stuff and gravity
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Steven Kent: The Plague
Camus wrote The Plague (or La Peste).
Then he said as he puffed out his chest,
“Jean-Paul Sartre, mon frére,
Wrote Nausée .To compare:
A good book, but mon Dieu, mine is best!”
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Terese Coe: Cautionary Tale
He managed to live in a labyrinth
with cigs and a keg of absinthe.
But he looked like a mess
and died of the stress
so they pasted him onto a plinth.
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Rana Shabibi: Cat
“You only live once” means nothing to you;
you get eight more tries than we humans do.
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Jerome Betts: Colourful Conclusion
A fish-loving fellow called Bernard
Dared to mix grape and grain with grilled gurnard
Thus fuelling a flush
Like red paint from the brush
That left sunset scenes thoroughly Turnered.
