Sense Sonnet - Tickler

Boo

To boo came from cow sounds tiz said,
Though most will say cow sounds are moo.
And there's the boo from ghostly dead -
Ghosts have nothing better to do.
Some folks pay money to be part
Of a booing audience - Gee!
So much to boo in sport and art,
Stay home and watch and boo for free.
But booers like their boos to build,
A feeling of empowerment.
Shouting out boos, and there's fulfilled
An "in your ears - bum" message sent.

To boo or not to boo - the choice
Faced daily by most any voice.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Field Yield

From contraceptives, there's old borne
A bunch of life controversies.
Male run religions ever scorn
Family planning strategies.
The man long puts the woman's place
As serving the man's ev'ry need.
And to bear forth the human race,
The woman's there for the man's seed.
Kind of like the plowed field is there
To yield of life when duly sown.
The field thinks not of when or where
Or why or how new life be grown.

Man judges woman by her yield,
Just like a man judges his field.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Hazel Soares

Ellsworth Soares, a U.S. G.I.
Came back home after World War II.
But not a college kind of guy,
The G.I. Bill he did not do.
But years later, Hazel, his wife,
Used Ellsworth's benefits from then
To pursue a new college life,
Graduated two thousand ten,
At the young age of 94,
And grateful for the G.I. Bill,
Making real now, her dreams before,
Giving her the help to fulfill.

The G.I. Bill made history,
Like Hazel Soares and her degree.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

Higgs Bosen

The Big Bang of the universe
Began it all for all tiz said.
Higgs Bosen, for better or worse,
Was the wee particle that led
To making nothing into mass.
And now masses in human shape
Have evolved enough to surpass
Secrets till now let Higgs escape.
Curiousity killed the cat.
Perhaps curious got banged out,
When catching Higgs Bosen, and that
Started all, all over - no doubt!

The scientists' last word be "Dang!"
Higgs Bosen does one new Big Bang!

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

Falcon Eyes

The pop phenom, Rihanna, took
To Twitter 'bout her ink to tweet.
A falcon on her ankle look,
And how she thought such bird 'twas neat,
That during sleep, it kept its eyes
Wide open as a light to shine.
Rihanna surely meant no lies,
But fact checkers did check her line
With experts on the falcon bird.
Its eyes do close when it does sleep.
But will Rihanna get the word
Before she makes another peep?

When her put foot in her mouth be,
What does Rihanna's falcon see?

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Obamataxcare

The Supremes saved Obamacare,
Thanks to the Chief Supreme's left turn,
To make the libbies float on air,
And to make the conservies burn.
'Tis constitutional because
The Feds have the power to tax,
And can be used in all the laws
To make us behave to the max.
The Massachusetts model can
And should be given a close look,
Like testing a guinea pig plan
On how much from who's pocketbook.

In the end whatever its name,
It will be a tax just the same.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Tiz Tax

Chief Justice Roberts saved the law,
Obamacare, that duly passed.
'Twas there constitutional flaw?
Roberts ruled, "Nope," causing aghast.
'Tis constitutional to tax,
Roberts contorted 'twixt and 'tween -
Can tax to punish to the max.
Just taxed for living, it can mean.
The Feds fav is to spend galore,
So We the People will pay out
More cash called taxes, more and more,
Citing the Roberts rule, no doubt.

Conservies, libbies - matters not.
The Feds want more of what we've got.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Bargain Basement

Corporate campaign spending tiz
Accused of buying politics.
Corrupting power is big biz
From all sides in the govvie mix.
The media should love the deal,
Getting paid for their press and air.
Take it away and hear the squeal
Of meddling by gov - just taint fair.
To speak the bare truth just gets lost
In all the lies of fanciness.
To not know truth - what is that cost
To We the People - take a guess.

Shrink the govvie powers away -
Who will live to see that day?

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Patrioright

The term, "true patriotism,"
Is tossed about by left and right,
Telling what it truly ism
By only those who see the light.
The rest of We the People are
Simply pawns in that great debate,
Used and abused in liply spar
By those who think their side must state
What's patriotic and what's not,
What is the common good and bad.
Of course each side is sure it's got
The only true word to be had.

The sounds of them or us will be,
But People want to hear the We.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

States of Reminds

In the founding days, rights of states
Came first out of necessity.
From them came the powers and weights
To let a federal thing be.
But now the federal thing tiz
No longer needing states to thrive,
Telling the states, "None of your biz,"
In legalistic wordy jive.
Oh, Feds still throw a bone or two
To states to keep them all in line.
But Feds do what Feds wanna do,
And stick states where the sun don't shine.

To the Feds, the states must bow down
Like before founded - to the Crown.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Mediatricks

Obama vs Romney tiz
The battle that the pundits play.
The partisan media biz
Keep politics in disarray.
Conservies and libbies give lip
To spin agendas sought to sell,
Bigger the better frenzies whip
The truth under the lid of hell.
Whoever wins for President
Will lose four years to pundit poke,
Cuz most media is hell bent
On making news mischief - no joke!

Media is lunatic fringed
Seeking to get us all unhinged.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Carbon Curbin'

They talk and talk and talk and talk
About how bad the carbon tiz.
So it should really be no shock,
Bad mouthing carbon is big biz.
Take a peek at those who talk most,
Then follow the money they make
From all the lip flaps that they boast
Of anti carbon for Earth sake.
The more such talk, the more does spew
Carbon dioxide through the air.
If such talkers were really true,
Then all such talk, they'd cease to share.

There would be less carbon about,
If no one talked of it - no doubt!

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Young and Restless

Gangs of children seeking some thrills
Rove to the ritzy part of town,
And using worst of copied skills,
Beat at random, knock for fun down.
The city powers say to us
Take it in stride and don't fight back,
Don't want no Trayvon Martin fuss.
Victims - take notes on the attack.
Kids play and then tire of the toy.
So if caught, Courts will let'em go.
Mom says he's really a good boy.
It's all for the kids - doncha know!

Juvenile delinquent needs said,
Brand that on the guilty's forehead.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Doing Fine

"Private sector is doing fine,"
President Obama says so.
Critics are jumping on the line
To peeve the President - hello.
The context is comparing to
The public sector that's in need.
Firefighters, cops and teachers who
Are not doing so fine - indeed!
The whole economy would be
So better off if we just hired
Added public bureaucracy.
Such a fine state is lib desired.

China thrives on its public biz,
And that's where the borrowed money tiz.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Give Gov Give

Paul Krugman won a Nobel Prize
For thinking economic stuff,
Like keep those taxes on the rise.
The gov can't tax privates enough,
'Specially that corporate crowd
That's in the biz of money make.
Let's make the socialists feel proud.
Grab on those money trees and shake.
And with more taxes hire more folk
For public sector this and that,
For socialistic suck - no joke!
The ever sucking bureaucrat.

Money, the private sector makes.
Money, the public sector takes.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

School Prayer

We used to say a prayer in school,
But then one day it was not said.
Something 'bout a Supreme Court rule.
I even heard that God was dead.
I figured it was all about
The grown ups doing grown up stuff.
God was still ev'rywhere - no doubt!
Just grinning at the grown up guff.
And in all schools, God is right near,
Whether or not a prayer we say.
An unsaid prayer, God still does hear.
It matters not how loud we pray.

Not said, but thought, a prayer can be.
At school that's how God hears from me.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

Bank Off Line

The State of California banks
On the future of ocean fish.
The fish don't know, so don't say thanks
To humans feeling some guiltish.
Protected areas will be
Where only deposits are made
To save ecologically,
With finterest compounding paid.
No withdrawals by human hand
In the reserves - next window please,
Cuz the fish do not understand
Boundary lines in the high seas.

And just like money banks, there will
Be humans robbing fish banks still.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine - you had a face
Meant for the movies and T.V.
And through the decades you did grace
The screen with so much memory.
The bad guy or the good guy part,
You had a way that did beguile
The audience right from the start,
Drawn to you with that tooth gap smile.
You said Oscar made you a star
That came with messes that you made,
But you shined brightly long and far.
We're glad you came and glad you stayed.

You give heaven a great big hug.
We're gonna miss your merry mug.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

Rename Re Game

Academi is the new name
Of Xe Services, LLC.
The company's still in the game
Doing private security.
Blackwater named, it started out,
Not all that many years ago
From the swampland color, no doubt,
Where forces were trained for gung ho.
But there hit bad publicity
While on assignment in Iraq,
So Blackwater was changed to XE.
Too sissified was the feedback.

So Academi - newest pick,
For an image of Plato schtick.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Kid Cost

In 1960, government,
U.S.D.A. to be exact
Told what middle classes had spent
After the consummating act
Until the age of 17.
A bunch of bucks it takes to raise
A kid that's growing 'twist and 'tween
Bundle of joy through hormone phase.
The pie chart shows that basic needs
Stay close in overall percent,
But education piece proceeds
To balloon on what has been spent.

It costs much more to educate.
Many don't do 3Rs too great!

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Karen Carin'

Poor Karen Klein - so bullied so
By those mean boys there on the bus,
Phone camerized so we could know,
And many we wish she were us.
Yes, enduring minutes of hell
From juvenile delinquent brats.
The hurting words that they did tell
Caused the passing of "help her" hats,
To show her that the world does care,
Thanks to those boys being so mean.
She's now almost a millionaire
For just that short time caught on screen.

Rich Karen Klein - some now would say,
Being bullied can really pay.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

Lily Tomlin as Ernestine
Became the T.V. funny face
Of one who to most was unseen,
A voice from some telephone place -
And she who operated calls
From every and any one,
Most surely knew the secret alls -
The details on what each had done.
With just one ringy dingy, she'd
Unleash her powered ears upon
The unsuspecting - yes indeed.
Nothing once said was ever gone.

The human Ernestine retired.
Computer Ernestine got hired.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

Wounds of War

We send the children off to war,
Assuring them it's for the good.
There's so much bad, we must send more,
The never ending soldier hood.
We bring the dead back coffin draped
In Ol' Glory, for which they died.
In death, these soldiers have escaped
The war still raging from inside,
Of soldiers coming back, not dead,
But living with the hell torn soul.
We say it's only in your head,
A little rest and you'll be whole.

Reminders of war, we like not.
Wounded children be best forgot.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

Sunday Sin

Sunday, Father Ed called in sick,
And went out to play golf instead.
A course far from home he did pick,
Where no one would know Father Ed.
And all by himself, he did play,
To further hide the fact, no doubt,
What he was up to on Sunday,
No one but him would know about.
Four hundred yards was the first hole.
Father Ed teed up and then struck.
The ball did fly and then did roll
At the pin, in the cup - what luck!

Sometimes golf can make one's life hell.
Hole in one, but who could he tell?

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

Sheriff U.S.A.

Syria is killing its own.
Should Sheriff U.S.A. jump in?
In lots of "I told you so," tone,
Armchair pundits do talk their spin.
Most of that talk is huff and puff,
Cuz Sheriff U.S.A. is no
Longer the big bully enough
To force its way. The world knows so.
China and Russia and Iran
Call the shots in the Middle East.
Israel surely needs a B plan,
Since faith in the U.S.A. has ceased.

Sheriff U.S.A. too soon will
Be dead and buried in Boot Hill.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Andy Griffith

Few know that Andy Griffith 'twas
A stand up comedian first,
Rousing a crowd with rural hee haws.
Then into T.V. he did burst,
As the all good Mayberry man,
In sit com done to tug the heart
Throughout the war torn sixties span.
Andy was true - not just some part.
Later, Andy returned to be
Matlock, the lawyer, donned in gray,
Outsmarting baddies on T.V.
He gave his all in his own way.

Andy Griffith - you'll never cease.
You live in reruns - rest in peace.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

Century Children

A hundred years that came and went,
Living the American dream.
Middle class parents ever spent
Time searching for that hidden scheme
On how to raise the kids just right
To assure them a better life,
So when the kids grew up, they might
Make a good husband or good wife,
And then raise children of their own,
To realize what sacrifice
Their parents surely must have known,
And so now treat them very nice.

Good parenting is like roulette.
There's no such thing as a sure bet.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

Stinkin' Drinkin' Thinkin'

The U.N. powers that be talk
Of clean water shortage that tiz
For a billion humans should shock
Movers and shakers of world biz.
But they have other games to play,
So clean water gets watered down
With dried up talk on Water Day,
Lots of hot air in Rio town.
Maybe if such powers that be
Could drink no water till they agreed
Clean water would be given free
To all humans - not talk, but deed.

Maybe powers that be in thirst
Could do best instead of talk worst.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

Earhart Update

Amelia Earhart update,
New disappearance news appears
On the mystery of her fate,
Flying, back 75 years.
She may have been a castaway
On Kiribati Island reef.
Cosmetic ointment of her day
Used by her for freckle relief.
Found are glass remnants of a jar,
Once containing the same skin cream,
Pieces of evidence - bizarre.
An Earhart scavenger hunt dream!

Though her freckles are long, long gone,
Amelia Earhart lives on.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

The Working Bored

When I started my company,
Enthusiasm knew no bounds.
We all worked well successfully,
Coming to work like eager hounds.
But now most old timers are gone.
Newcomers have taken their place.
I am not sure what's going on,
But boredom seems to set the pace.
I try real hard to get their take,
And do the best with what I've got.
It's at the point of make or break.
I'm thinking 'bout going robot.

My employees, I ill afford.
I am the chairman of the bored.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Kirk Douglas

America - new world of hope
For so many who came from none.
Impossible dreams within scope
To then come true for anyone.
Fame and fortune are found by few.
A little talent, lots of luck.
America dotes on who's who,
Too oft measured by the big buck.
American, Kirk Douglas, is
Example of the come true dream,
Achieving so much in show biz,
By valuing most - self esteem.

Kirk Douglas - 95 years saged,
Is Sparticus still, and well aged.