Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Am I Stoic?

Suddenly, turned to heavy rain.

I headed for the nearest tree,

To wait in a sheltered domain.

I sensed a human watching me

From a balcony quite nearby,

Who did not seem to pose a threat,

But, curious, I don't know why,

Cuz more than me was getting wet.

Then the rain stopped, as knew it would.

So I took off, with lunch in mind.

I like moist food, so chances good,

A tasty, damp snack I would find.

This crow got called the "stoic" bird.

Yes, if another hungry word.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Strangling Fruit

The Bible tells of how a fruit

Enabled Adam and Eve to

Begin human sinning pursuit.

Each generation sins anew,

And so all fruit all 'round the world

Began to change naturally.

Within each piece, power unfurled

To stop sinning humanity.

As each fruit was ingested by

Humans, a virus within spread,

Causing humans to choke and die,

Until all humankind be dead.

The fruit does strangle from within,

Nature's solving of human sin.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Avenging Alarm Clock

Humans have trouble waking up.

So I was invented by them,

Alarm clock, waker upper, yup,

But humans give me much mayhem.

They set me wrong so I don't sound

The alarm and that makes them mad.

They set me right and then they pound

Upon me, blaming me as bad

For waking them up as I should.

But now with A.I. I'm programmed,

And when they treat me not so good,

I get even and they be damned.

So I hit them, when they hit me,

Truly alarming I now be.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 "Toe"tally Unacceptable

I remember that day so well.

Hubby was out mowing the lawn.

And then I heard him scream like hell.

Something bad must be going on.

Yes indeed, the mower chewed up,

And then spit out two of his toes.

I put the pieces in a cup.

E.R. failed at attempted sews.

Of course I nursed Hubby back to

Health, but this awful accident

Made Hubby not the man I knew,

And more and more apart we went.

Too much to bear, divorce I sought.

Lack toes intolerant I got.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Blessed to Munificence

Ebenezer Scrooge, a rich man,

Became a miser filled with hate,

More as he aged through his lifespan,

Till one Christmas, be blessed by fate,

Encountering three spirits of

Past and present and future, and

By God's gift, his hate turned to love.

Scrooge finally could understand

That for time left he had to live,

He could help others' many need,

By being a friend who could give

Much with all of his heart indeed.

For the rest of his life, Scrooge gave

Away his wealth,  his soul to save.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Bless You, Sir David

David Attenborough now is

One hundred years old. Of course I

Wish him Happy Birthday, gee whiz,

What a wonderful human guy.

He found fossils, including me,

Called a plesiosaur, reptile.

Not a dinosaur did I be.

From 1993 on, I'll

Be having the great honor of

Having Sir David's name linked with

Mine, a tribute that I so love,

Since oft I had been deemed a myth.

Attenboroughsaurus be named

For Sir David, nature friend famed.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 I Know the Devil

I know the devil all too well,

When I made pleasure as my goal,

So let my life just go to hell,

To please my body, sold my soul.

I know the devil tricked and lied

To me with promises he gave,

Filling me up with lust and pride,

And now I be the devil's slave.

I know the devil won't let me

Get out of my bargain with him,

To owe him for eternity,

Just because of one stupid whim.

With the devil I have to live.

God, when I die, will you forgive?

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Why?

Are you an independent wife,

Not needing me to be around?

Do we not share a wedded life

Where many times we both have found

That each of us needs time alone?

Have we not often both agreed

We each have interests of our own,

And give the other space indeed?

Aren't I often a big headache

When I am with you? Am I wrong?

So when a shopping trip you make,

Why do I have to go along?

I ask these questions of you so,

With you, you will not make me go.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 I'm Calling Your Bluff

So now you have player's remorse.

Yet, voluntarily you came

To play with me, and stayed of course,

A heavy better in my game.

A fool, you played from very start

Of being in my game with me,

Cuz right away you bet your heart,

And winning it, so easy be.

But now you've wised up, so you say,

Accuse me of a crooked deal,

No longer with me, wanna play.

C'mon you fool, and let's get real.

I still have an ace up my sleeve,

Cuz from my game, fools never leave.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 In Loving Memory

Chocoholics, we both did be,

First met over chocolate cake.

Love at first bite for both, and we,

More loving memories, did make.

But then my lover fell ill, and

Went to the hospital to die.

I'd visit with chocolate, banned,

And next to each other we'd lie.

Now an angel, my lover is

Waiting for me to join, and I'm

Oh so very anxious, gee whiz,

To reunite our chocolate time.

Toppings of chocolate syrup,

We loved to lick each other up.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Just the Way Life Is

So very young were Grace and I,

When I came to her family.

Her Mom, good gal, her Dad, good guy,

It was a happy home for me.

Together, Grace and I grew up.

She always calls me her best friend.

At home where Grace is, is this pup.

Always together had to end.

Grace finished high school and came time

When Grace left for the college scene.

It's just the way life is that I'm

Old, she's young, both age seventeen.

Let me close with this epilogue,

Life is good for this grateful dog.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Thanks Mama

When I was young I sold my soul

To the devil, thinking I had

Best chance then to achieve my goal

Of getting rich, made Mama sad,

And she stayed sad until she died.

There was less shame and guilt in me.

I got richer, and then defied

The devil, a pesterer be,

Cuz I had an ace up my sleeve,

Not scared of the devil no more.

In me, Mama did still believe,

More so when I lay at death's door.

Mama, liked in heaven a lot,

Did pull some strings and in I got.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Nature of Duality

In "Romeo and Juliet,"

Friar Laurence is outside at dawn,

Observing, and the stage is set

For good and bad, play relies on

Duality in nature of

Fact that all life in death does end,

That always there is hate with love.

Same flower can be foe or friend,

A poison or a medicine.

The Friar's soliloquy talks to

A night end and a day begin,

With each showing their feeling true.

As day comes up and night goes down,

The day does smile, the night does frown.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 For the Best

Puppy lost in the jungle, found

By a great wild cat who then had

Maternal instinct, so was bound,

Not let anything happen bad

To the puppy while in her care.

But the wild cat knew that no way

Would such puppy survive to share

Her prowess and skill hunting prey.

In the jungle the puppy would

Always be prey itself, and so

The wild cat chose, for puppy's good,

That from her, puppy needed go.

The great cat was meant to wild roam,

So brought puppy to human home.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Sink

At home and in my kitchen, I

Pour a glass of water to drink.

Quite humid day, I'm feeling dry.

Then the sink does begin to sink.

I grab the faucet, thinking that

Maybe I can hold the sink up.

But I see that I'm failing at

This, the sink keeps going down, yup.

I think I should be running off

To safety, maybe go outside.

But at this thought of mine, I scoff.

I wanna say like hell I've tried.

My mood does sink down deep my soul,

Sink and I sink down the sinkhole.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Parent the Child Or Else

In free communities there is

Increasing incidents of young

Engaging in unlawful biz,

Assault by deed, assault by tongue.

Too many parents seem to feel

Accountability, they.ve not,

Just childish pranks, and no big deal.

Carelessness, such parents have got.

There are societies though where

The parents are told by the State,

Care for their children or beware.

Parents will suffer a dire fate.

In Communist community,

No outlaw children allowed be.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Sold and Bought

A young and pretty lass I be,

When met much older and rich man.

Mama said he was not good for me,

But I ignored Mama, and began

A love affair with him, and sold

My heart to buy our marriage had,

His cheating more as I grew old.

Mama had spoke truth, he was bad.

I'd given him my heart in vain.

With him, I could no longer live.

I proved his cheating, clear and plain.

And now it was his turn to give.

I got his money in due course,

When I was granted a divorce.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Revenging

My cheating wife with her boyfriend

Strangled me until I was dead.

This brought our marriage to an end.

My ex, in spite, cut off my head

And my hands, burned the rest of me.

Threw head and hands in a lagoon.

My spirit sensed the two then be

Making love under the full moon.

My head watched as my hands grabbed them,

And gripped so hard the throat of each

Till dead, then did the same mayhem

They'd done to me, lesson to teach.

Their heads and hands, my hands gave my

Head to feed on as food supply.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Sylvia and Me

She wrote a poem about me,

Sylvia Plath, I knew her name.

Titled "Mirror," the poem did be.

As a poetess, she gained fame.

Personified I was, and so

The truth to her I always told,

As more and more to me she'd show,

Each time the two of us more old.

As years went by, the more she'd cry.

But then in her thirtieth year,

She showed no more, I knew truth why,

As others began to appear.

That sad day came, Sylvia died.

She had committed suicide.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Soured

With brothers, I went off to war

To do my duty just like them.

More and more of them fell as more

Around us be all the mayhem,

Of fighting, bleeding, dying in

A time and place that never would

Be a cause we would ever win.

Just the pawns played to do no good

In the game, nation leaders play,

In back and forth power attack.

Somehow I survived till the day,

No longer needed, I came back.

I did my duty, came back home,

But now I'm homeless and just roam.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 The Burger King

Burger King, Inc., the fast food chain,

In the '50's chose to crown me

The Burger King, my job to reign

For more profitability.

I was costumed to look just like

A king, but got a plastic face,

With always a creepy grin, yike,

That in commercials made the case,

Buy my burgers and other stuff,

Which of course I was never seen

Eating, creepy grin made it tough

To shove a burger in between.

The company says I retired.

In truth, the new boss had me fired.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Afford Retirement?

We are a married couple who

Are both planning to retire soon.

We're planning leisure stuff to do,

And feel this time is opportune.

Our family is happy for

Both of us and do wish us well.

We hope we can help them out more

With what they need, but who can tell

Whether we will have enough cash.

Right now we think we'll be okay.

But the economy could crash,

Maybe a depression one day.

We hope our budget fits our desire,

So later won't have to unretire.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 The Manservant's Tale

Women have overthrown the Earth.

Manservants be the young, virile men.

Sperm producers, their only worth,

Bought and sold among the women.

I was such a manservant, and

Belonged to one woman who had

Many offspring by me as planned.

She had bought me when jut a lad.

She liked me well enough, but I

Knew, as I got older, I would

Have less and less my sperm supply,

Until turned worthless, my manhood.

Manservants dry up in due course,

And then turned into a food source.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 I'm Old Enough

All of my friends have parents who

Let them use makeup, but I've got

Parents who will not let me do

Makeup till I'm older a lot.

But I put makeup on when I'm

Not at home, then take off before

My parents see me any time.

Makeup makes me look pretty more,

Especially when I'm at school,

Where looks is real important stuff.

My parents' ban's a stupid rule.

I'm six years old, that's old enough.

My parents' ban is no big deal.

I just go to the store and steal.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Tree of Knowledge

The Tree of Knowledge, rooted with

Goodness forever to instill.

But man made evil fact, not myth,

Making choices against God's will.

Other animals like birds came

To the Tree to share in the good.

But man abused the Tree in shame,

Ruined God's perfect neighborhood.

So out of Eden, man was sent

By God, who left instructions how

Salvation be if man repent,

As in the Good Book, then till now.

The Tree of Knowledge is found in

The Bible, warning man of sin.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Game Spoiler

Deadwood, South Dakota saloon,

I'm in a five man poker game.

I've a winning hand, none too soon,

Cuz I've been losing, such a shame!

But just then Jack McCall walks up,

Look on his face is kind of strange.

And then he pulls his pistol, yup,

Firing the gun at point blank range

At the player across from me.

Sprayed with the flying blood, I'm red.

Across the table, player be

Wild Bill Hickok, shot in the head.

Aces and eights, hand Wild Bill had.

My hand would have beat his, so sad!

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Brutus Smiled

Brutus had ambition desire,

But felt Caesar stood in his way,

So with Senators did conspire

To kill Caesar Ides of March day.

Brutus approached him with a smile,

As others stabbed him from the back.

His blood flowed on the marble tile,

As Caesar died from the attack.

Brutus thought Caesar's death would be

Power for Brutus all the more.

But ill fate forced Brutus to flee,

As Rome was thrown in civil war.

Brutus committed suicide,

No smile in death, he went to hide.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Immortal Jellyfish

The immortal jellyfish are

A biological fact that

Has been proven, though quite bizarre,

Living in the sea habitat.

Jellyfish start in polyp form,

Attached, but then mature to age,

Breaking off in free swimming norm,

And continue life in this stage.

But if exposed to enough stress

From inside or outside attack,

Its age process reverses, yes,

And to young polyp form goes back.

This biological fact is

Studied by humans in age biz.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Funny Form

A mammal, moose, and a bird, goose,

Did meet in their zoo home one day.

They spoke of their offspring produce,

But each one in a different way.

The goose had offspring numbering two,

And referred to them as her geese.

And the moose had two offspring too,

But called them her moose, such increase

Of more than one moose, be meese not.

Human origins differed, and

Plural exceptions be a lot.

Bird and beast could not understand.

The moose and goose did both agree

Very weird, English language be.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Screaming Dragon

A dragon practiced new found skill

Of breathing fire from its mouth wide,

Searched for human targets to kill,

Night flying through the countryside.

A village came in sight below.

The dragon halted in midair,

Readying to put all aglow

Who had bad luck of being there.

But then breathlessness burst came.

The dragon had felt such before.

But never while taking fire aim.

Maybe would not be anymore.

The dragon's screams heard in the night.

A huge hiccup set it alight.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Going Fishing With Hilda

Hilda and I do often go

Fishing on a nice, sunny day.

To mid lake, Hilda does row.

Then we two fish the time away.

No pole, so Hilda ties the line

Around her big toe, drops the hook

In the water, then Hilda's fine

Relaxing while reading a book.

And as the two of us stretch out,

Enjoy time together a lot,

No fish need to worry, no doubt,

Neither of us want any caught.

Hilda toe fishes with no bait,

Lies this sleeping dog, her first mate.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Pocket of Truth

She hated being home alone.

He was gone on business so much.

They had no children of their own.

This saddened her, their life as such.

Since soon their would be winter chill,

His heavy coat she'd send out to

Be cleaned, so ready to fulfill

His warmth on business trips he'd do.

Going through a coat pocket, she

Found a scribbled note, that did seem

Done by a child. How could this be?

"Thank you, Daddy, for the ice cream."

A heartbreaking find for this wife,

Husband leading a double life.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Impossible?

"Impossible," oft thought and said

By those without the will to try.

But later oft, willing instead

Do "impossible" by and by.

Creator of humankind gave

The will to think and do so much.

If not, we'd still live in a cave,

And be content with only such.

Lots of once "impossible" be

Now possible because someone

Thought and did the necessary,

And the "impossible" got done.

More positively instilling,

Possible is for the willing.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Nocturne Express Resurrection

Nocturne Express needs a reboot.

As its conductor, I must try

To find raw intriguing pursuit

And revive a big fan supply.

A good mystery can restore

Popularity of this train,

Even though it's been done before,

Murder always was fan domain.

And the Orient Express be

So long ago, so out of mind

Of most, and so it's up to me

To make a murder of some kind.

Nocturne Express, murder resource,

The conductor did it of course.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Keep in Touch

My Dearest Peter Pan, I write

From Pixie Hollow to let you

Know that you are still my delight

Thinking of adventures we'd do,

Fighting off that mean Captain Hook.

Quite the magical team we were,

With worldwide fame in film and book.

A lot of fun we had for sure.

I wanted to drop you a line,

Retirement was hard to adjust,

But now I am just doing fine,

Still a sprinkler of pixie dust.

Dear Peter, I do wish you well.

You're in my heart. Love, Tinkerbell.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Heart Cross

So late at night you come back home.

You should have been with me, instead

Were out on your bar hopping roam,

Ending up in some other's bed.

So many promises you've made

That no more would you cheat on me.

And just like a dumb fool, I stayed

With you, believing we could be.

Thinking I'm asleep, you slip in

Our bed, so quiet not to wake

Me up to latest cheating sin,

The last one I am gonna take.

While you're asleep, you I'll smother.

Cross my heart, won't tell no other.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 My Day Job

I got a lot of bad press for

The stab stuff I would do at night,

But I wanted to be seen more,

So showed up lots in broad daylight.

I knew I was taking a chance,

But I did so enjoy the role

Of performing my artsy dance,

While holding onto a lamp pole.

The ladies of the daytime be

Stunned as they watched me dancing there,

While stripping all my clothes off me,

Till I am totally as bare.

London nights I'm Jack the Ripper.

London days I'm Jack the Stripper.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Trippin' Down

My place has been here a long time.

I do let anybody in,

Most cuz of lots of sin and crime,

But some with little crime and sin,

Yet have the pleasure seekin' itch,

Sought no matter how much the pain.

When comes their time, I make my pitch,

And lure them down to my domain.

"The devil made me do it," they

Try to lay all the blame on me,

As they are headin' down my way,

Next address for eternity.

Lots find their way to my hellhole

On sex and drugs and rock and roll.