Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Workout

I'm at my first aerobics class

For senior citizens, I need

Some shaping up for this old lass,

Was told this is the place indeed.

And sure enough I find out fast

What bad shape this old bod is in.

Hour goes by and will I last,

Or will I give up to chagrin?

So I keep on with jump and twist

And lots of gyrating for me,

But am determined to persist

With all the sweating I do be.

Class is over, I am too late,

But got that leotard on straight.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 My Destiny Dream

I would dream of fortune and fame,

A rock star the whole world would love.

Most on top of the charts my aim.

My fans in the billions full of

Adoration for all that I'm

Singing in songs that come to me

As inspiration anytime,

And once I sang, a hit to be.

My destiny to entertain

The world with song, and always I

As superstar royalty to reign,

My legacy never to die.

My stardom reality zone,

In the shower, singing alone.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Be Tempted By

Little Red Riding Hood I see

Walking through the forest to go

I bet to grandma's house thinks me,

As I watch her through morning glow,

With dewdrops sparkling in the grass,

Growing 'neath the towering trees,

Under which Little Red does pass.

The scent of her floats with the breeze.

Temptation is hard to resist,

But I want not to tempt ill fate,

Which beckons to me through the mist,

My no happy end to await.

That Grimm tale does end grim so I'm

This big bad wolf who'll pass this time.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Crown of Thorns

When Jesus was condemned to die,

Humiliating pain to bring

A crown of thorns on his head by

Soldiers mocking Jesus as king.

To his crucifixion went he,

Crown of thorns Jesus forced to wear.

Holy symbol it came to be

Of suffering Jesus did bear.

The crown of thorns was left behind

As Jesus died, reborn to live

For redemption of humankind,

Ever for our sins to forgive.

Jesus Christ, no crown does he need,

Ever King of Glory indeed.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Continue to Care

As approached last days of her life,

My mother would just wander off.

This caused me a great deal of strife,

Searching for her, but I'd not scoff,

Because I knew that in her mind

She was seeking my father who

Had deserted us, I'd be kind.

There being nothing else to do.

Then the time came which I knew would

When mother and I were apart.

I still tried to do what I could

For my mother's still broken heart.

Each night I leave a lamp to burn

By her grave where she must return.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Just Can't Help Myself

I knew the first time that we met

That you would be a worthy prize,

More so, as you played hard to get.

The truth was that I loved your lies,

Which made my current lover mad,

Which didn't bother me at all.

I'm good at making choices bad.

Don't care whatever chips may fall.

It took a while but you gave in,

Your beginning but end for me.

When I could count you as a win,

No longer interested I be.

Uh - oh, I couldn't help myself.

You're the next trophy on my shelf.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Egged On

Easter bunny hop hop hopping

With eggs to hide in the graveyard,

For egg hunt is Easter shopping

A weird spot, gravitas is hard

For the tipsy Easter bunny,

Plowing 'round in furry furrow

Through the headstones, giggling funny,

Eggs drop in the bunny's burrow,

Chugging on the bottle of booze

Till the last drop of beastly dregs.

Mission Easter bunny pursues.

So who to hunt the Easter eggs?

Weird Easter egg hunt could be said,

The egg hunters be the raised dead.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Gobsmacked

The term, "gobsmack," is British slang

Meaning astonish or astound,

And so suddenly upon sprung

That one might be left speechless bound.

"Gob" is slang word for mouth, and "smack"

Being a verb that means "to hit."

So a hit in the mouth attack

Is literal gobsmack, to wit

I was so flabbergasted when

I was gobsmacked literal way

By her fist coming at my chin.

There was nothing that I could say.

The wife gobsmacked me recently,

And speechless her right hook left me.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Frustrated

A scarlet tanager, I've heard

Is a rarity to be seen

By humans, and so when this bird

Is spotted, I am 'twixt and 'tween

This human him and lovely her,

Who I am trying to impress

With my song and dance that should sure

Win over my hoped for mate, yes!

I give the human guy a good

Pose to take a picture of me,

Then maybe this human guy would

Go away and not a distraction be.

The human guy finally moves on,

But now my hope for mate has gone.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Forbidden Words

The terms, "Mother" and "Father" be

Deemed illegal to write or say,

Being discriminatory

In a very subjective way

To relatively few folks who

Find offensive to hear or read.

Such words which will possibly do

Sensibility harm indeed.

To try to assure that such stress

Upon very few does not fall,

Weird laws more and common sense less

Is forced on population all.

The terms, "Mother" and "Father" are

Banned in a world that's gone bizarre.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Grunion

Following high tide with full moon,

They come with waves upon the beach.

Instinctively they come to spoon,

Climactic passion hope to reach.

She twists herself into the sand,

As he does lie nearby to her.

Her eggs, his sperm unite as planned,

Fertilization to occur.

When done they catch a wave to go

Back to their lives, both he and she.

Later their hatched offspring will know

To leave the beach and go to sea.

Procreation does be their wish,

To make more of the grunion fish.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Wind in My Hair

A windy day and had no hat,

So held my hair as best I could,

And was ever so grateful that

The bus came, I got on, all good.

A lot of passengers, but I

Found last empty seat and sat down,

Right in front of a wheezing guy,

Cold or allergies, I did frown.

But soon forgot him as I read

A magazine until I heard

An awful sound behind my head,

And then the worst of wind occurred.

Whopper sneeze that guy blew my way,

And through the air flew my toupee.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Grandfather's Grandfather Clock

When Grandfather died, at same time

His grandfather clock did stop too.

Under Grandfather's last will, I'm

His sole beneficiary who

Got the clock that none could repair.

But to get rid of it, no way.

Small apartment we both would share.

Then to my amazement one day,

The clock began working just fine.

And I could hear a voice as well.

Just an imagining of mine?

Soon I discovered time would tell.

Working, haunted grandfather clock,

I often hear Grandfather talk.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Purple

Two purple people, he and she,

Married and bought a purple house.

And then they had purple children, three.

Purple wife told her purple spouse

That the purple family should

Buy a purple boat and go on

Vacation, sea cruise would be good.

They did but a wave fell upon

Them in their purple boat and they

Had to swim for their purple lives.

To safety they all found their way.

The purple family survives.

Still their purple lives are attuned.

On an island they are marooned.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Happy Hippo

Happy Hippo is on a swing,

All dressed up in her Sunday best,

Swinging away, doing her thing,

And doing so with lots of zest.

Within reach, lots of flowers that

Happy Hippo does pick as she

Swings back and forth, and in her hat

Now's where the pretty flowers be.

No one's probably ever had

On this swing happier delight

Than Happy Hippo who's so glad

To be swinging, a happy sight.

She is a swinger on display,

Happy Hippo, hip hip hooray!

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 My Dust in the Wind

Since a kid I have loved to fly,

To be in my small plane above,

The earth below, high in the sky,

Always a joy and marvel of

The wonders of the world to sense,

With the excitement to explore

All that every journey presents,

Always leaving me wanting more.

Of course I knew would end some time

My flights when death would come for me.

So as cremated remains I'm

Planning tossed from my plane to be.

One final journey I will spend

Flying high, my dust in the wind.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Misread

Some squirrels in the forest did be,

And saw a tuna fish walk by,

Then watched that fish climb up a tree,

And go into a hole, but why?

So the squirrels climbed the tree so that

They'd be able to learn first paws

Why in a tree hole habitat

Was this fish, against nature's laws.

The squirrels asked and the tuna said,

"I am a nut according to"

"A mirror view of me, and I read"

"Not tuna but read a nut, true!"

The tuna had it backwards, cuz

A nut spelled backwards, tuna was.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Personal Paradox

When I was young my body be

Full of potential, new and fresh,

And full of boundless energy.

It was fun indulging my flesh.

Meanwhile my mind I tended to

Keep it as empty as I could.

I'd more important stuff to do,

More of it bad, less of it good.

Now that I'm old and wised up, I

Am in a body that is not

Able to perform well, and my

Mind is left alone a lot.

A paradox of pen and tongue

Is youth is wasted on the young.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 My Contribution to Society

Hubby is an alcoholic.

He has been for a long, long time.

I stay with him, though he is sick

Because I do love him, and I'm

The best one who can save him from

Hurting others, driving a car,

Something so dangerously dumb.

Wherever he goes, near or far,

Either I drive or someone who

Knows Hubby should not get the key.

Hubby accepts this rule as true,

Firm condition to stay with me.

I've ways and means while I'm alive,

When Hubby drinks he does not drive.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Throne Back and Forth

When daddy became mummy, I

Cleopatra, sat on his throne.

Two death god statues were nearby,

So wanted a chair of my own.

Eighteen years old, I had to share

It with Ptolemy, baby bro.

Awful crowded, both in one chair,

So one of us just had to go.

As it turned out, I had to flee.

But got hold of Caesar in Rome

Who sent an army to help me.

Soon, sole ruler, went back home.

Now back on daddy's throne I sit.

I'm getting better used to it.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Witness in Time

April 20th is the day,

1889 is the year,

To Braunau am Inn, made my way,

In Austria, why am I here?

Being a time traveler, I'm

Here to witness event of worth,

And document the place and time,

Happening here on planet Earth.

The event is birth of a child,

Future effect to be profound

In evil that will be compiled

By those like me, we're duty bound.

Time travel rules, I cannot warn,

Baby Adolf Hitler is born.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 My Pet Peeve Alternative Explanation

One very big pet peeve of mine

Is folks cutting in front of me

While I am waiting in a line.

A rude behavior this does be.

But why do such folks act this way?

On purpose or by accident?

Either can happen, but I'll say

It's supernatural event,

That the devil made them do it,

Telling them each in my own voice,

Cut in front of me I permit.

In fact that is their only choice.

So will folks cut in line as well,

In a hurry to go to hell?

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 After You

You swept me off my feet and we

Eloped and moved far, far away

From contempt of my family.

You, just after my money, they

Kept warning me, but I would not

Listen to them, you were the one

That in my dreams I always sought.

Now my dream come true had begun.

A remote, lovely home we found,

With a huge outdoor barbeque.

You planned that there I would be bound,

After I was murdered by you.

After you, I'm in parts unknown,

Burned then buried, just ash and bone.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Portmanteau to You

I was a wigger, Hubby said,

A portmanteau of words combined,

Wife and nagger, Hubby turned red,

Laughing so hard of clever mind.

Then Hubby challenged me to think

Up a clever portmanteau for

Him, so I fixed me a stiff drink,

And then Hubby asked me to pour

Him a drink too, which I did, and

Poisoned it, Hubby gulped it down.

Soon Hubby could no longer stand,

Falling dead with a puzzled frown.

I think my portmanteau does win,

My Hubby once, now a husbeen.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Fame

You called me "babe" with a small "b,"

Never could remember my name.

That same old song you sang to me,

'Bout being a man finding fame,

And taking things over when found,

And going good places, good time

Of good life in a limo bound,

But ended up driven to crime.

You went from top to bottom fast,

From very best to very worst.

I'm grateful you were in my past,

Not with you when your bubble burst.

Sometimes fickle what fame does do,

Fame found me after leaving you.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 House of Teenagers

The house of teenagers for me

Was house of horrors seven years.

I was subjected constantly

To overwhelming unknown fears.

Hormones inside me raged like hell.

My outside looked from bad to worse.

This house where I was forced to dwell

For seven long years was a curse.

I never ever could feel right.

"Just grow up," I was told by them,

Who seemed to take special delight

In watching me go through mayhem.

To the house of teenagers, I

Just turned twenty and say goodbye.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Frickin' Floppy Fish

Well equipped  with my fishing gear,

Rowed my row boat into the sea.

Well equipped with a can of beer,

Six pack already inside me.

Into the water cast my line,

And right away a marlin hit.

This whopper was gonna be mine,

As I struggled to pull in it.

The marlin jumped high in the air,

Landed next to me in the boat,

Then flopped like hell and sunk us there.

This fishing trip, that's all she wrote.

Thanks to a frickin' floppy fish,

Now with the sharks I'm the main dish.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Death Met the Maiden

The maiden so sad when her love

Was taken by death suddenly.

Endured her life in longing of

The future time coming when she

Would reunite with her love to

Never again be kept apart.

So hoping that her wish came true,

The maiden died of broken heart.

From her grave the maiden arose,

And through the mist began to walk

Till encountering death who chose

To stop the maiden and to talk.

And to the maiden death did say,

"Your love awaits, I'll show the way."

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Humbling Bumbling

In my senior high school year, I

Was on the football team which got

An awards dinner, it was my

Honor to be picked for the slot

To thank the crowd for all the team.

Just before I got up to speak,

Saw boxer white like a bad dream,

And quickly zipped up on the sneak.

Introduced, I strode from my chair,

Then awful sounding circumstance

Of crashed dishes and silverware,

The tablecloth zipped in my pants.

For the rest of the year there be

"Jock the Zipper" reference to me.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Princess Piggy

A party princess piggy, my

Folks, King Pig and Queen Sow, are out

Of the castle, so of course I

Am throwing a party no doubt,

The wildest party ever had

In the castle ever before.

I am so good at being bad,

And dancing up a storm galore.

While on a cigar puffing smoke,

Fluttering my tutu to tease

This princess piggy in a poke

For doing whatever I please.

Oh, oh, Dad and Mom do appear.

Snoutful of oinks I'm gonna hear.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Lennie Let Me Know

At the end of a rainbow, I

Found a pot of gold so I thought.

Was it a leprechaun's supply?

An expert opinion I sought

To get and so I went to see

Lennie, my favorite leprechaun,

Who was happy to provide me

Advice on what I'd come upon.

"An end of rainbow pot," he said,

"Is often just a prank put there,"

"So that the finder is misled."

"It happens a lot, so beware."

At what I'd found, Lennie did balk,

"Sorry, it's fools' gold, a sham rock."

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Nap Time

Mom told me my room was a mess,

And would I please pick up my stuff.

Just the thought wore me out, I guess,

So figured I had time enough

To take a short nap which I did.

And suddenly in bed with me,

A polar bear, I do not kid.

And I wondered how this could be.

The polar bear was all curled up,

So I curled up too in its fur,

Where I felt quite safe and snug, yup,

And had the nicest nap for sure.

When I woke up, the polar bear

Was gone, but the mess was still there.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Should I Let Her In?

She suddenly appeared outside

My window seeming to want my

Letting her in to be supplied.

A damsel in distress who I,

Liking such lovely ladies, would

Quite quickly say, "Yes, do come in."

But something here did not seem good.

I felt goosebumps on my neck skin.

And then I guessed the damsel might

Be one of whom I'd heard tales told,

Seeking those like me in the night

Who'd let them come in from the cold.

Yes, I'm sticking to my first guess,

A vampire "damsel in distress."

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Computerizing of War

Since humankind came, so came war.

The soldiers fighting on each side,

And soldiers die next as before,

The living left to mourn those died.

But now humankind has evolved.

Soon soldiers in battle won't die.

Casualty number to be solved

By computers that will supply

The data on who lost, who won.

All soldiers on each side will live.

But after win/loss datas' done

Will determine lives the sides give.

How many on each side should die

Will be determined by A.I.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Balking at Walking

If demons walked the earth they would

Be the pedestrians no doubt

Who'd always be up to no good

Wherever they would walk about.

The earth occupies a large space.

Walking demons would take a while

To get around in time and place.

Evil they wanted to compile

Would take longer, outcomes would fall.

Demons' meetings would not go well,

Regularly the boss would call

From demon headquarters in hell.

Demons don't like to walk the earth,

Prefer to fly, for what it's worth.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Buba

Buba, the water buffalo,

Is with three human boys today.

Is used to being with them so

Has taught them well in Buba's way.

They all have been in the field since

Early morn, and Buba of course

Has done most of the working hence

Buba's in need  of water source

For thirst and thermoregulate,

So Buba does not overheat.

With some grunts, Buba does relate

Water need, no need to repeat.

Into the river go all four.

Water on Buba the boys pour.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Case Solved!

Sherlock Holmes was called upon to

Find out who the murderer be.

Sherlock inspected every clue

Of the a salt and battery.

"Bipolar type," Sherlock deduced,

"Who's quite prone to unstable mood."

"Very dangerous if unloosed"

"While in a state of being crude."

To Holmes the solution did come

As he did his detective task.

And Scotland Yard charged lithium.

Very impressed, Watson did ask,

"Sherlock, lithium? How'd you guess?"

"Element three, dear Watson, yes!"

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 The Witness Crow

I was on a bench in a park,

Penning a poem meant to be

Of a lost love so sad and dark,

Sought to be penned like Poe by me.

Then I heard a "caw" from above

On a tree branch a crow I saw,

Witnessing me pen of lost love,

And the crow continued to "caw."

I finished up my poem while

The crow kept on with its critique.

Was it my rhyme, was it my style

That gave this witnessing crow pique?

To this wannabe poet Poe,

"Ever bore," quoth the witness crow.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Girls' Night Out

Human mother and daughter spend

The night with lionesses so

Mother's daughter might comprehend

Different perspectives to know

How females can better survive

In a male dominated world,

And eventually to thrive

As male dominance comes unfurled.

The human mother is aware

A lioness is a female

With lots of good knowledge to share,

Outdoing hims on a grand scale.

The lionesses keep it blunt,

Time to go for fresh meat to hunt.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Orpheus and Eurydice

Orpheus loved Eurydice,

But she died and to Hades went.

The gods told Orpheus that he

Could go to Hades with assent

To play a song upon his lyre

So heartbreaking that Hades would

Allow Orpheus his desire,

Take Eurydice back, but could

Not look at her as both returned

From the underworld back to life.

But as they walked, Orpheus yearned

To be sure he was with his wife.

Orpheus looked back to be sure,

Whereupon Hades reclaimed her.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 In the Cards?

I went to a psychic to learn

The future for Hubby and me.

Tarot cards the psychic did turn,

And said that bad news there would be,

That my husband this year would die,

Violent and terribly so,

Leaving me a widow, but I

Specifically wanted to know

More that the tarot cards might tell.

Added fees I'd pay for such task,

And do future business as well,

For the answer to what I'd ask.

"This is good news I must admit,"

"But will I get away with it?"

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 "Koi"se of Action

Four koi fish, A,B,C, and D,

While swimming up the river knew

That conspicuous they did be,

Each in a colorful bright hue.

For the foursome a plan they had

In the event predators were

Attacking and outcome looked bad.

Maybe three could escape for sure,

Leaving the fourth to bear the brunt.

Sure enough predators displayed,

Seeing the foursome fish to hunt.

Three koi fish fled and the fourth stayed.

A,B and C escaped in joy,

As predators chased the D koi.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Mapinguari

Amazon jungle creature be

The mapinguari, even still

Always shrouded in mystery.

Few humans have escaped  its kill

To tell the outside world of such

A seven foot tall furry beast

With a single forehead eye much

Like a cyclops, and mouth to feast

From lower abdomen mid way,

Two backward facing feet of track.

And an eerie loud cry to say

Beware, it's about to attack.

Meeting a mapinguari would

Most likely not go very good.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 I'll Take a Pass

A selfish earthly pleasure I

Have a gut wrenching feeling that

There's no available supply 

In the heavenly habitat.

The Bible makes no mention of

This pleasure and so I assume

It's deemed by the divine above

Not allowed up there to consume.

I do admit this pleasure be

Something I cannot do without.

So heaven must do without me

If denied this pleasure no doubt.

None in heaven so I'll delay.

For chocolate on earth I'll stay.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 The Bahia Emerald

The Bahia Emerald does be

830 pounder said

Worth a billion dollars, wowee,

That's one great big chunk of green bread.

Mined from Bahia, Brazil and

Then smuggled to the U.S. where

Possessors came to understand

It came with a curse to beware.

Whoever had the stone did seem

To lose money this way or that.

Most lost from unrelated scheme,

But blame to emerald became pat.

Round trip the emerald did fulfill,

Court ordered return to Brazil.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Betty Croc at the Beach

Betty Croc does once in a while

Likes to leave her swamp and go to

The beach where she lounges in style,

For some sun and surf to pursue.

Screener on to protect her scales,

And shades on to protect her eyes,

She sips on refreshing cocktails,

And swats away the pesky flies,

As she relaxes in her chair,

And chuckles at her joke because

She is kind of like Christmas there,

As she presents with sandy claws.

Humans do scatter all and each,

When Betty Croc is on the beach.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 A Paris Tram

A 1920 Paris night

On cable trams were he and she.

He saw her and he did alight,

Then boarded her tram so both be

Heading in the direction same

Toward the Eiffel Tower, so while

The tram rolled he set on his aim

Of bringing on her face a smile,

Which being full of polite charm,

He did accomplish his set goal.

And the twosome sat arm in arm,

As through the rain the tram did roll.

In time and place I was not yet,

On a tram, my Gram and Gramps met.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Wrath of Cupid

Two wannabe lovers were told

By Cupid that they would not be,

So these wannabe lovers, bold,

Hid Cupid's bow and arrows so he

Would now be incapable of

Shooting of any arrows into

Any to cause a fall in love.

The outrage within Cupid grew,

And with strong sticks he used to whip

The wannabe lovers to force

Them to lead Cupid on the trip,

Finding his bow and arrows of course.

Then the wannabe lovers' fate

Was to die, killed by Cupid's hate.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Change a Tire?

In my pajamas, I'm out on

My front porch, sipping coffee in

Early morn with a breaking dawn,

Enjoying peace and quiet when

My next door neighbor calls to me

That she has a favor to ask.

A pretty lady she does be,

So this dude's up for any task.

Though still in my pajamas, I

Tell her to tell me her desire.

My pretty neighbor does reply

She would like me to change a tire?

So back into my house I go,

And change into a tuxedo.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 End Credits

Hubby and the nanny, I am

Filming them together in bed

Secretly with the nanny cam.

Then both are gonna be found dead,

All carved up with a butcher knife.

I'll be the prime suspect since I

Have the best motive as the wife.

But I'll have a good alibi.

Masked killer and killings all caught

On the film and the crime will be,

With good luck, unsolved and I'll not

Have murder charges against me.

Hubby and the nanny, deceased,

Get end credits when film's released.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 From Hubby With Love

Valentine's Day, Hubby did think

A romantic gift for me would

Be something useful in hot pink.

So what he got he thought was good

Because not only useful, it

Was hot pink and shaped like a heart.

Hubby thought this surely a hit,

And he looked so happy and smart

As I opened the package up.

Heart shaped and hot pink, yes it be,

No doubt a useful item, yup.

Of course I know Hubby loves me.

Hubby outdid himself, he did,

Hot pink heart shaped skillet with lid.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 "Moonlight Sonata"

Beethoven and a blind girl met.

She requested and he did play

For her until the sun had set.

At the piano both did stay,

As the room with darkness did fill.

Beethoven played into the night

Beautiful music with his skill.

Then through a window beamed moonlight

Shining upon the blind girl's face.

Such appreciation seen by

Beethoven in this time and place,

New notes from fingers in reply.

Beethoven, so inspired was he,

"Moonlight Sonata" came to be.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Gut Wrenching

A mariner's revenge tale is

Heard by me in a strange echo,

As I am minding my own biz,

Coming from where I don't heck know.

One sailor's talking a tale long

To another sailor about

How the other sailor done wrong

To the talking sailor no doubt.

As this long tale I listen to,

Where these sailors are at does dawn

On me, in my belly these two

From a ship I just munched upon.

I swallowed and stomached this tale.

Now time to digest by this whale.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Lilith

Lilith, first wife of Adam, dared

When coupling with him be atop.

Male dominated heaven, scared,

Banished Lilith who did not stop

Her scaring men and she became

Demonic succubus, the first,

Who'd find a sleeping man with aim

To suck life juices, quenching thirst,

To fill herself with such to bring

Forth proof of her avenging role,

Plague men with demonic offspring,

Still continues as Lilith's goal.

So any sleeping man beware,

Lilith can come, your bed to share.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Intervention

A long, long time ago was had

Summer and Winter wedded be.

Marriage between them got so bad,

The two of them could not agree.

Summer wanted all time be hot.

Winter wanted all time be cold.

Over this constantly they fought,

Causing confusion to take hold

In all the animals and plants.

Thus Spring and Autumn were asked to

Fix the confusion circumstance.

So what did Spring and Autumn do?

The two, a separation forced.

Summer and Winter got divorced.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Unemployed

It was so many years ago,

I was a gift to mom from son,

And on mom's face a grateful glow.

So soon I was a busy one,

With mom often during the week,

As I crossed all surfaces on

Mission, the enemy to seek,

And for the moment, wipe foe gone.

But as the time passed, mom did try

Newer, better stuff, I was fired.

But since I was mom's son's gift, I

Was not thrown out, but just retired.

Now up in the attic I am just

A feather duster gathering dust.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 One, Two or Alladay?

February 22nd,

President Washington's birthday.

Holiday cuz U.S. reckoned,

By George, he won for U.S.A.

But then President Lincoln came,

And born in February too.

Now the third Monday gets the claim,

So lots of employees can do

A three day weekend of time off.

Twelve states count all the Presidents.

At this feds and other states scoff,

Only George, this day represents.

In heaven, George and Abe no doubt

Chuckle over glasses of stout.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Final Say

I know when I fell ill you sought

Being with another away.

This truth hurt me an awful lot,

But nothing of it would I say

To you because I felt there were

Other parts of marriage we shared,

And neither of us need endure

More pain because this truth be aired.

And so the years just slipped on by.

Lots of good, just this one pretend.

Each of us living with this lie,

Till came the day this lie did end.

I never told you I forgave,

Till now I tell you at your grave.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Out of Breath

We came to this world long ago

When life upon was primitive,

And over time we came to know

This world on which we chose to live.

But now I captain the last ship

To take remaining of us who

Will head back home on the long trip.

There's nothing left for us to do.

Life upon this world did evolve,

Invented toxins to appear,

Killing life before we could solve

The unbreathable atmosphere.

A few humans we take along

To study more on what went wrong.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Ketchup Kid

I asked Hubby to put ketchup

On the shopping list which he did.

Now he can't read anything, yup.

And most would think Hubby does kid,

Perhaps to let the whole world know,

Especially me, that he's not

One of the mindset to let go

Shopping which he does hate a lot.

So I gave Hubby a new list

And the choice to shop or to read

Divorce papers, now Hubby's pissed.

But he did go shopping indeed.

Now with Hubby each threat's implied

I will serve ketchup on the side.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Stinking Thinking

I had sent Hubby out to find

A suitable spot for our nest.

He got himself stuck in a bind

When I found Hubby quite distressed.

I only found him when I heard

A donkey braying weirdly so,

Then found Hubby in an absurd

Nest site where no way would I go.

Hubby with his nitwit bird brain

Went up the donkey's with the goal

To find a warm, cozy domain

For nesting in the ass's hole.

When Hubby comes out, yes indeed,

Good bird bath he is gonna need.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 The Snowdrop

In her warm bulb beneath the ground,

The snowdrop knew the time was right,

Though still be winter, to be bound

Up through the dirt to the sunlight.

So upward went her shoot of green,

With her tiny white flower to

Be the first on the winter scene

Into sunlight, and winter knew,

Begrudgingly, this snowdrop be

A sign to all that winter's woe

Was ending, and humans would see

This snowdrop and also would know.

This first snowdrop, good news to bring,

The coming of friendlier spring.