Sense Sonnet - Acher

 "The Dark Lady"

"The Dark Lady" was sonnetized

By William Shakespeare, a dark skinned

Lady of beauty who was prized

As a desired one the Bard penned.

This lady was not Shakespeare's wife,

Who must have known some about her.

But Mrs. Shakespeare was real life.

"The Dark Lady," who can be sure?

Apparently was not returned

The love and lust for her Will had.

Angry, painful verse as Will yearned

For this mistress who drove him mad.

Whoever "The Dark Lady" be,

Remains a source of mystery.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Ghost of Peg

With dreams of film stardom she came

To Hollywood, but soon she died.

Peg Entwistle in death got fame

For jumping to her suicide

From "H" top in the Hollywood

Sign, leaving a short note below,

That doing this was for the good.

Soon afterward her ghost would show

To passersby with her sad face,

Dressed in 1930's attire,

As though bound in this time and place,

Still chasing film stardom desire.

Scent of gardenias in the air,

Peg's favored perfume she would wear.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Haunted "Eggs"perience

The house I recently bought, I

Got such a great deal on the price.

At the time I didn't know why

That this purchase had been so nice.

But after I moved in I do

Hear lots of clucking sounds about.

And lots of feathers floated through.

Something was very strange no doubt.

Then I found out to my alarm

That this house had been built upon

What used to be a chicken farm,

Now causing weird phenomenon.

That's why this house was underpriced,

It's haunted by a poultrygeist.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Malpractice

A new doctor I went to see,

Who introduced as Dr. L.

I could not tell if he or she,

But if was qualified, oh well.

On padded table I did lie.

Without warning down I was strapped.

As I was about to ask why,

The doctor's face mask came unwrapped.

And the doctor cut off my gown

With a scalpel which then cut in

My flesh, peeling it up and down,

Until removed was most my skin.

Gone be bodily chunks of mine,

As Hannibal Lector did dine.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Burrowers on the Prairie

Prairie dogs, the humans call us,

Becuz of barking sounds we make.

We're really squirrels, but we don't fuss

About the humans' wrong namesake.

We live in burrows underground,

Which we dig with very sharp claws.

We live where grasses do abound,

Eat with lawnmower teeth that awes.

Coyotes, snakes and big birds be

Main predators that cause us harm.

When seeing or hearing them, we

Sound out a which one bark alarm.

Inside, outside, we love to play,

Party animals night and day.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Relic Recovered

For millions of years this coal piece

Lay buried 'neath the ground of Wales.

When mined this coal gained its release

Becoming part of tons of sales

To a shipping line loaded on

A ship in Southampton bound for

New York, this piece of coal upon

Maiden voyage that was in store

For a disaster to occur.

For decades this piece of coal lay

While it and other pieces were

Awaiting to be found one day.

What was the piece of coal's outcome?

Sank Titanic recovered from.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Supporter

I write poetry on this site,

Pour forth my heart and soul and mind,

And always wonder if I might

Maybe this one, a comment find.

But when again no comment be,

I lock myself in my room and

Upon the pity pot is me.

There is no way I understand

Why after all my works of art,

The comments don't come in a flow.

I moan and groan with broken heart,

Then look and one comment does show.

Another verse, another bomb,

But got got one comment, thank you Mom.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Sweet Deal

I graduated with degree,

And in a new town set up biz.

But few were coming to see me,

So I got to thinking, gee whiz,

What could I do to supplement

Biz that to college I did go,

And to all those classes I went,

And all those school loans I now owe.

So I added a candy shop,

Let the kids have whole bunches free.

I soon was a popular stop

For rotten teethers needing me.

Thanks to my busy candy store,

A dentist with patients galore.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Back to Normal

A Tik Tok ad did advertise

A new drug name of Thalasin

That when taken would normalize

My state of emotions again.

So I ordered a month's supply

On the Internet sent express.

When the pretty pink pills came, I

Gulped down a couple and, oh yes,

I felt my old self coming back.

My normal emotions did refill,

And I left my home to attack

Next victim for serial kill.

The latest drug that China is

Using for minding my mind biz.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Civil War Rifle

Two brothers lived in Tennessee,

John and Ben, both in late teenage.

For John's birthday, Ben gave him me,

A Springfield rifle, twenty gauge.

When the Civil War did break out,

Both brothers left home and went forth,

Hard on the family no doubt.

John joined the South, Ben joined the North.

Later in battle, John killed Ben,

Shot him with me, marksmanship skilled,

And never knowing that fact then.

On that same day John too was killed.

Ben and John, brothers dead and gone.

On that battlefield I rust on.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Stork of Today

Used to have a monopoly

My predecessor storks enjoyed.

But now a modern stork like me

Competes for parcels, girled and boyed.

UPS, FEDX, Amazon,

All now deliver babies too.

So stork service phenomenon

Is a field many storks don't do.

But this stork does continue with

Delivering babies to their

Waiting parents (still called a myth).

My motto is "I really care."

Along with newborn girls and boys,

I bring an assortment of toys.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Decided to Date

I met Valerie late at night.

She told me who and what she was.

But instead of taking quick flight,

I asked her on a blind date cuz

I felt safe with her, what the heck.

She promised me she would behave

In matters affecting my neck.

An all night steak house I did rave,

And Valerie thought would be fun.

The two of us were seated quick,

Looked at menus on what to dine,

And each of us did make a pick.

Valerie ordered steak tartare,

A vampire likes meat bloody rare.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Silver Bullet Blues

My wife was out with the girls so

I was at home and all alone.

Outside I saw the full moon glow,

Then heard a howl in scary tone.

It could be a werewolf I thought.

A believer I always be.

Just in case my pistol I got,

And silver bullet given me

By my wife once as just a joke.

But now protection it would bring,

Shot with it a werewolf would croak.

In the bushes I shot something.

I got the surprise of my life,

No werewolf, just my hairy wife.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Fantastic Voyage

Suddenly I am aware of

Taking a fast ride through the air.

The ground's below, the sky's above.

Between fanned wings I'm sitting there.

A buzzing noise is all around.

A lovely red rose comes in view.

Into its petals I be bound,

And I'm covered in fragrant goo.

Then back to the hive I am flown.

Into a comb cell I do go.

It is a wondrous world I'm shown.

Into my mouth honey does flow.

A fantastic voyage for me,

Riding upon a honeybee.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Alice With Malice

Escaping from the mental ward,

She stalked a White Rabbit on whim

Down his hole, and there Alice gored

With her knife lots of holes in him.

The Cheshire Cat at this did grin,

So Alice sliced that grin until

Just a bloody gash was left when

That grinning cat Alice did kill.

The Queen of Hearts was the next one

To fall prey to Alice's blade.

When cutting out her heart was done,

The Queen's heartlessness was displayed.

When down that rabbit hole she fell,

Alice turned Wonderland to hell.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 I'm One Cool Cat

I'm a tiger who oft gets hot

Under the steamy jungle heat.

So I am in water a lot,

Cooler offer that can't be beat.

Because I hunt mostly at night,

I like to rest during the day.

Lounging in water's a delight

As hot day hours tick away.

My strong body with webbed paws make

Me very good at swimming fast,

And swimming long for trips to take.

Fellow swimmers do flee aghast.

Human swimmers especially

Really freak out swimming with me.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 I Rock on All Poetry

A big boulder atop a hill,

I was chipped off of this old block

By a lightning bolt as it will.

A Cheerio look a like rock

That bolt did bore a hole in me,

And then storm winds blew me away,

Into a flower bed to be,

'Mid pretty pebbles on display,

Those pretty pebbles scorned me cuz

I looked different from them all.

I was proud of the way I was.

After while destiny did call.

Some human fingers picked me up.

I'm now a poem contest, yup!

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Love at First Touch

The two of us met in first grade.

He sat right behind me in class,

And pulled upon my pigtail braid.

I was not gonna let that pass.

And turned to Jack, that was his name.

Whereupon Jack just smiled at me.

Whereupon I took careful aim,

And my fist in Jack's eye did be.

He asked my name and I said, "Flo."

Throughout the class were whispers of

The two of us had acted so

That both of us were now in love.

One pulled pigtail and one black eye,

It was true love, I'm not sure why.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Seeing Eye Cat

I have a pair of glasses that

I wear for my far sightedness.

In my savannah habitat

I'm a much better hunter, yes.

Lots of prey sightings I had missed

Because I could not see too well.

I found a good optometrist,

And now at seeing I excel.

My optometrist visits me

For regular checkups I need.

A grateful lion I do be,

To get such good service indeed.

My optometrist is one who

I have promised never to chew.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 The Case of the Calling Woods

I hear the woods calling my name,

And so I go investigate,

Play Sherlock Holmes in a mind game,

In which I oft participate.

Once in the woods I listen close

For the woods to give me a clue,

By being a bit more verbose

On what the woods are trying to

Tell me on what I need to hear,

So that this case is solved by me.

But only breeze comes to my ear.

I can't be late for therapy.

I heard the woods calling my name.

My shrink will say my mom's to blame.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Unredaction Action

Redaction by the governments

For "security' reasons are

Most likely lots of evidence

Of life here from outer space far.

Odd are that in the universe

Other life forms exist somewhere,

And able for better or worse

To travel to Earth here from there.

The public should be trusted to

Know what the governments know of

Visitors coming, false or true,

From the stars in the skies above.

Just out of curiosity

Does there really exist E.T.?

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Vista of Vibrance

When does come the season of spring,

Mother Nature does rouse her plants

For artful reawakening

Into colorful circumstance,

For new leaves and new blooms to sprout,

Replacing winter's bare and gray

With a new, fresh vibrance no doubt

To be quite a welcome display

For animal eyes to behold,

Providing food and shelter for

All animals both young and old,

Partaking of fresh sweet decor.

The sight of each new spring does be

The most welcome of sights to see.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 All Bunny Poetry

A bunch of bunnies, poets all,

Do share a club treehouse where they

Spend hours heeding poems' call,

Shared by the bunnies night and day.

Poetry month of April be

When the Bard's book is day and night

Open up to his poetry.

The bunnies take turns to recite

The verses found upon each page,

To bring to life in place and time

For bunnies young and old of age

To hop along with metered rhyme.

Each hare does hear with each long ear

Sonnets from a book by Shakespeare.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Distrust is Addictive

An addict who is a slave of

An addiction will surely use

Any who give the addict love,

Targets an addict will abuse.

Best of intentions of those who

Want to help an addict get well

Will give an addict excuse to

Keep falling in addiction hell.

As long as it's an addict's choice

To hear just an addiction's call,

An addict will ignore the voice

Of any who care, one and all.

When an addiction is a must,

That is all an addict will trust.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Beltane

The Celtic festival, Beltane,

On each May first did celebrate

Beginning of summer to reign,

And hope for a bountiful fate.

Special bonfires be kindled to

Bring protective powers of fire.

Celt folks and their cattle walked through,

Leaping over flames to inspire

A successful summer of light,

Bringing blessings to each household,

That summer would be warm and bright,

Giving wellness to young and old.

Beltane season brought hope Celts yearned,

In song and dance as bonfires burned.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Baker in Battle

Nearby Aljubarrota town,

Portugal, 1385

Was a great battle of renown.

Seven of foe did not survive.

These Castilians left the fight

And fled into the town to hide

In a baker's house out of sight,

In the oven they did decide.

The baker returned home and found

The seven foe who tried to run.

With a shovel the baker downed

The seven till all dead was done.

Brites de Almeida did be

The baker, and heroine, she.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Change

My girlfriend seems in a strange mood.

Aloof a lot from me she is,

And does not want me to intrude,

Tells me it is none of my biz.

But now she's here and none too soon,

Saying she needs something to eat,

As she does stare at the full moon,

While she gnaws at some raw red meat.

And then to me she's walking to,

As I wonder about all this,

Wondering next what will she do.

She pulls me close, I think to kiss.

A transgendered werewolf now be

My once girlfriend who just bit me.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Beat It

"Beat the Devil's Tattoo," you sing

That you're threading the needle through.

But I don't trust this tune you bring.

Dance with death you urge me to do.

Yes, I have fallen for a lot,

And done a bunch of stupid stuff

To escape all the pain I've got.

But I have fallen far enough,

So now back up I need to climb,

And cleanse my body, mind and soul.

I need to give myself some time,

Let heaven pull me from hell's hole.

Go sing your song of fantasy

To other fools but not to me.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Change

Politicians have the mindset

For life to stay in government.

Longer stay, more power pols get,

And get dumber is evident.

Term limits, pols never vote in,

Cuz then their jobs would have to change.

A real job they could never win,

And have to work would be so strange.

We the people need to demand

Politicians get changed like - say -

Diapers do need to be changed and

Life proceeds in a better way.

Both should be changed regularly,

For the same reason this should be.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Icarus

Daedalus and Icarus flew,

Father and son winged to be free.

Daedalus hoped Icarus knew

To fly safely 'tween sun and sea.

But Icarus believed he be

Safe from his wing wax melting so

He chose to fly defiantly.

Close to the sun he did go.

Wax melted and his wings did fail.

Icarus laughed as he plunged down,

Still confidant, hearty and hale.

In the sea Icarus did drown.

Self sabotage through pumped ego,

Icarus syndrome now all know.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Flying Fox

Indigenous to nation of

Vanuatu is flying fox.

Seeing a flying fox above

Would cause most people eyesight shocks.

Mostly this animal eats fruit,

But sometimes eats insects as well.

When it is in food pursuit

It uses its keen sense of smell.

At night is when it mostly flies.

A good pollinator it is,

Dropping seeds, flying through the skies

While doing food gathering biz.

Truth of the flying fox is that

It really is a type of bat.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Installed on Bald

I'm sitting on a bus behind

A bald headed man and since I

Am bored, I choose to let my mind

Stare at this bald head and to try

To discover what is thereon,

Formed by the spots and wrinkles to

Be look a like phenomenon.

Through twelve bus stops there comes in view

The image often showing up,

Potato chip and pizza slice.

And so why not a bald head, yup.

On eBay could fetch a fine price.

I swear on that bald head there be

Jesus Christ looking back at me.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Needle Threading Feat

I went before the king to show

The feat that I could best perform.

From a needle ten feet I'd go,

And take a piece of thread quite norm,

Then throw that thread right through the hole

Of the needle, yes quite a feat!

Took me years to achieve such goal.

From the king I did get receipt

Of both one hundred gold coins and

One hundred lashings of whip too.

Because I didn't understand,

The king explained my double due.

Rewarded and punished by the king

For doing well such a useless thing.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" Alternative Ending

A son and a brother I did be.

My mom and dad and sister were

Ever dependent upon me

For family support for sure.

But as a salesman I was bad,

So my family was quite poor.

One morning I awoke and had

Become a big bug on the floor.

My family at first were stunned,

But then went from bad state to good,

For with my change I now could fund

A ticket sale show livelihood.

My change to a big bug became

My family's fortune and fame.