Max Gutmann: Zucchini
Zucchini has a subtle wit, and hankers to display it;
It means a vegetable, but it shouts "pasta!" when you say it.
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Rumi Morkin: Shoe-shopping
A one-legged man in Toulouse
Went shopping to buy single shouse,
He asked everywhere
For just one of a pair,
But the shops only sold them in touse.
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Terese Coe: Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich
studied some psych
but his reputation
was in copulation.
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Damian Balassone: Aunt Agoraphobia
When scenery is spacious
my aunt gets trepidatious.
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Bob Eccleston: An Anti-Tanka Tanka
Words should surge skywards
seeking unrestricted freedom
Not formulated
Limited in their movements
Imprisoned in syllables
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Terese Coe: Sei Shōnagon
Sei Shōnagon
was never a nun
because de facto captivity
was not her proclivity.
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Julia Griffin: Hills Like White Elephants
Or, more plausibly,
The other way round.
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Max Gutmann: Trioletdown
You'll rarely read a funny triolet.
There's no room for surprises at the end.
Because they're telegraphing all the way,
You'll rarely read a funny triolet.
They're boring: repetitious, drab, and gray,
A form it isn't easy to defend.
You'll rarely read a funny triolet
There's no room for surprises at. The End.
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Tony Peyser Stone And Sand
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Told all dictators to go to Hell. He
Managed to do this in the handiest
Sonnet ever called “Ozymandias.”
