Famine, plague, and mass confusion, Wished away through mere illusion. If peoples who’d outgrown their land Could just move on, I’d lend a hand. And were there planets left to roam, I’d clear them Space to build a home.
Warning: #InfinityWar Spoilers (and apologies to Marvel and Marvell fans alike) To His Coy Daughter by Thanos the Mad Poet Could I save worlds enough with Time, This coyness, daughter, were no crime. Could I bend the Reality Of dying soil, barren sea,
No one to trust, and no one to believe. It’s true, I do it for the thrill as well. One magnet may destroy, but two will cleave; You cast me off, but will not let me leave.
The hunted hunter, granting no reprieve; The notes, the signs, the constant kill and tell; You cast me off, but will not let me leave.
You could not even give me time to grieve; The scent of death I never will dispel. You cast me off, but will not let me leave. You’re honest only when you can deceive; An angel’s face, you’ll pay the bill in hell. One magnet may destroy, but two will cleave.
A Villanelle villanelle One magnet may destroy, but two will cleave Through any held within a villain’s spell. You cast me off, but will not let me leave. You drew me from the garden, quite naïve; Unripe and green and still within the shell. One magnet may destroy, but two will cleave.
This Is Just To Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox Wtf why do we have an icebox instead of a refrigerator It’s 2024 what kind of hipster nonsense is this
Ode to a Spider Who Descended from the Ceiling Whilst I was Writing: Old Mr. Hanley, Ever so manly, Typing his words away, Was met by a spider, Who frightened this writer, By calling him trite and cliché.
I thought that I should “never see A poem lovely as a tree.” Until I happened in the park Upon a tree stripped of its bark. And so, to keep the adage right Here’s a poem devoid of bite.
In honor of #nationalpoetryday I've decided to cart over some of my dumbest poem posts from when I was still using the other place so that you can all share in the suffering.