Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Back in the Swing

A grove of birch trees we do be,

Remembering time long ago,

A farm boy, on a swinging spree,

Swung so much, we all came to know

The limpness of our branches due

To the boy's swinging us each day,

Many branches touching ground, true!

And thus for a long while would stay.

But then came time that boy was gone,

And we trees missed that swinging boy.

Alone, through years we trees lived on.

And then one day, a renewed joy.

Boy from long ago, now grown up,

Brought his kids to swing on us, yup!

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Leave Hive Behind

Newlyweds, we were moving to

A new house, the two of us would

Share, all packed up, last thing to do,

Covered up my bee hive real good,

And was walking it to the car,

When my wife saw me doing this.

She told me she thought it bizarre,

Threatening our marital bliss,

Reminded, she did not like bees,

And thought that for her sake I'd not

Have a hive with her ill at ease.

She really put me on the spot.

My wife had intense talk with me.

Sadly, a bee leaver I be.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 D.C. Spree

The U.S. Federal government

Prints more money so that it can

Assure itself more can be spent,

Enriching cronies who all span

Over all parties, branches and

Foreign interests, all on the take.

Such criminality has spanned

Since real swamp had D.C. remake.

Along the way, D.C. felt need

For more money, so income tax

From We the People fed its greed.

Of course cronies lie of true facts.

One day will end such atrocities,

But We the People must learn Chinese.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Ladder Matter

Dumb and Dumber sought to climb up

From bottom of cliff to the top,

So got themselves a ladder, yup,

And on the cliffside they did prop.

But, alas, the ladder was not

Tall enough, so what should they do?

Then, Smart Aleck came, and they sought

His help. Smart Aleck said he knew

The answer to their problem be

To have two ladders, not just one.

And Dumb and Dumber did agree,

But wondered how this could be done!

Smart Aleck sawed the ladder in half,

Then quickly left with a hearty laugh

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 First Valentine Delivery

I am a mailman and today

Is Valentine's Day so I know

My mailbag will surely display

Lots of valentines that need go

From senders to receivers of

Such cards with a well known red heart,

Expressing along with words, love.

Puppy reminds as I depart

To make my first delivery

To one who's in the kitchen, and

Just served a great breakfast to me,

To one who makes my life so grand.

My first delivered valentine

To my beloved wife, please be mine.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Vampireless

A bloodsucker, you sucked me dry,

Just like a goddam vampire would.

But so convincingly you'd lie.

And convinced me we were so good.

Six months of hell you tortured me,

But made me dream all of that time

That in heaven with you I be.

I used to think I'm smart, but I'm

The dumbest dummy cuz of you.

But you will sink your teeth no more

In me. I know what I must do,

What I shoulda done long before.

So at last with you I got smart,

And stuck a stake through your damn heart.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Hullabaloo

Scotland and England, border 'tween,

Scot and Brit trains claimed right of way.

Each train's engineer on the scene,

Vocally arguing when they

Attracted Scots and Brits to them.

Each of the two sides then did cuss

Each other out, causing mayhem,

As words gave way to fists to fuss.

Reinforcements came to each side,

And a mob riot then ensued.

Cops threatened tear gas, then complied

The mob, with riot subdued.

Became hellish hullabaloo

Over low-commotion to do.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Pearly

He'd always say, "Pearly's been true,"

That he loved me more than his wine.

But down deep I'm sure that he knew

That he was sure no love of mine.

He spent most of a life of crime,

Complaining others gave him blame,

So in jail he's most of the time,

Wondering why I never came

To visit him, well truth is why,

Cuz I had better plans than be

Having to listen to him lie.

Better off without him be me.

"Pearly's been true," he always said

Till that miserable bum dropped dead.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Pass the Wheel

A bus driver, I loved my work,

Driving passengers here and there.

I felt a duty not to shirk,

In my hands were riders' welfare.

I drove the bus many a year,

But then came the time for me

To retire and pass on the steer.

And now as a passenger be,

Leave driving in capable hands

Of someone who in younger day

Would ride with me, and understands

Driving me safely on my way.

All in the family, no doubt,

My daughter drives my old bus route.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Mission Belt

The Mission Belt, it is my goal

To ever be of custom fit,

And do so without any hole.

Waist size won't bother me a bit.

Super fantastic, wearers rank

Me after I've been worn a while.

Even was a star on Shark Tank,

Raved my many color and style.

Always reliable I be.

Under pressure I'll never fold.

You need the best belt, you need me.

In stores and online I am sold.

On a mission and so well worth,

Expanding right along with girth.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Puzzle No More

Hubby is a puzzle to me.

I've tried to solve him but cannot.

Very frustrating this does be,

Stressing me out an awful lot.

Hubby knows enigma he is

To me and always jokes about

How puzzling me is his main biz,

Just to push my buttons no doubt.

Hubby has puzzled me so that

I cannot take it anymore.

When ordered from our habitat,

He laughed, which irked me to my core.

Hubby unsolved, so on a whim

Into his pieces I dumped him.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 "What's Up?"

A popular question folks ask,

"What's up?" Kind of like, "How are you?"

Leaving the questioned with the task

Of telling lie or telling true.

So now when asked, I try to tell

The truth I learned in Sunday School.

Up is heaven and down is hell.

So I prefer up as a rule.

When I reply in such a way,

That "What's up?" is heavenly bliss,

Most questioners look in dismay,

Wondering why I'm saying this.

"What's up?" When question asked of me,

I reply, "One day hope I'll be."

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Dining Doom

Hubby was having an affair,

He didn't know I knew about.

In truth, I wouldn't really care.

But I accidently found out

That he planned to murder me, so

I decided to kill him first,

Using the fact that I did know

That Hubby really had a thirst

For homemade elderberry wine.

Using recipe, tried and true,

Tonight as we sat down to dine,

Doing in Hubby I did do.

Old movie favorite was my pick,

Old laced his wine with arsenic.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Sent to Me this Night

The road above me, humans drive

And often hit wildlife up there,

And when hit, no longer alive.

Sometimes the humans think to share

Those bodies of wildlife, now dead,

Pushing them off the road to fall

Down the canyon and be instead,

Now with me, and I take them all.

And now this night I take a deer,

Pushed by a human from above,

Now fated to stay with me here,

Which I accept with nature's love.

A dead mother with unborn child,

Now going with this river wild.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Flight Fright

I was on an airplane flight when

Over the intercom was heard,

"Hello, Ladies and Gentlemen,"

"This is your Captain with the word"

"That the weather is good ahead."

"So sit back and relax. OH, NO!"

And then the intercom went dead.

Later, the Captain let us know

He'd spilled a cup of hot coffee,

An accidental circumstance,

Then chuckled and said jokingly,

"You should see the front of my pants."

I followed up the Captain's line,

Yelled, "You should see the back of mine!"

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Road Ode

My walk down a road was unplanned.

Two roads diverged from it, and that

Made me think of Robert Frost and

"The Road Not Taken" he was at

Such fork in the road, and he took

The road he thought less traveled by,

But wondered if he was a schnook,

Waxing poetic with a sigh,

Making all the difference, but

Not saying if choice good or bad,

And giving the not taken rut

As his verse name, so doubt he had.

Whatever doubt had Robert Frost,

I don't doubt that I now am lost.