Poetry

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50 Couplets by Moondog


1.
You like? you like the thoughts? you like the thoughts i think? you do?
They're naught to me compared to just one fleeting thought of you.

2.
The ant inherited the earth because he was so meek.
The will was signed, "The Animal" who turned the other cheek.

3.
We have to buy new cars each year or we'll be classified
by all the Joneses in our town, who must be pacified.

4.
His icy legions, camped on either pole, are at their ease
awaiting orders, when to start another icy squeeze.

5.
Prairie sod has heaped revenge on those who turned her under.
Clouds of dust, which hide the sun, no longer hide the blunder.

6.
An armored knight fell off a ship and sank into the blue.
He looked a lobster in the eye and said, "you're armored, to?"

7.
We men just didn't think to offer Crewcut Su a seat;
for we assumed she was a man despite her dainty feet.

8.
In retrospect he sees a pond, and on that pond he sees two
fleets of warring centipedes whose decks are lined with fleas.

9.
A fairy queen, two inches tall, looked up mb my eyes;
and with her magic wand she brought me down to just her size.

10.
Chief, they saw you coming when they came with horn-rimmed rifles.
Sad to say, these bargain hunters took you in with trifles.

11.
Within a moment's time the final grain of sand will drop.
Upend your hour-glass, old man, or the universe will stop.

12.
She bought a cover to cover the seat; but the cover was so nice,
she bought a cover to cover the cover; and now it's covered twice.

13.
You're climbing up the ladder of success; he's climbing down.
And you can't help but smile, i guess; and he can't help but frown.

14.
A bird alighted on an Indian's shoulder, and she said,
"i am the feathered spirit of your mother who is dead."

15.
How was i to know that newsmen take the world for granted?
How was i to know the news they deign to print is slanted?

16.
They hacked away a frozen deer in ice an eon old,
to eat, from Nature's deep-freeze, all the meat that they could hold.

17.
I pushed a diplomat right through the window of his suite;
and, like a common alley-cat, he landed on his feet.

18.
A snowflake settled on my hand and said, as if in fear,
"I must be on my way before i turn into a tear."

19.
The seventh wonder of the world was not the Sphinx, you Huns;
but you were the seventh wonder when you shot at it with guns.

20.
Drag the river up and down to find the Miss who's missing.
Crowd around her, curiously, to see whom Death is kissing.

21.
The greatest earthly monarch has a body and a soul.
His royal name is Seasky and he rules from pole to pole.

22.
I see her in the midnight sky, my fairest of the fair.
She's dancing on a crescent moon and stars are in her hair.

23.
One day a mounted hunter heeled a wounded boar, who wheeled,
and gutted horse and rider, leaving death upon the field.

24.
A thousand feet of scaly neck stood sentinel at sea,
as cloud-enshrouded radar eyes kept peering down at me.

25.
Pioneers, without their "eers" are peons, bent on pouting.
Give them back their "eers" and they'll be peons bent on flouting.

26.
"Embrace me, slave," the Princess sighed; and as he did, she screamed.
The guards rushed in and cut him down, as twenty sabers gleamed.

27.
A snail, whose house was on his back; amused a passing mouse.
Unhurt, the snail replied with cheer, "the laughs are on the house."

28.
You couldn't tell me more than when you looked into my eyes.
Now, you are there and i am here; and hope within me dies.

29.
The gods who wielded bolts of lightning were not gods, but men
who used the atom, as we did, to wreck the world again.

30.
"Go commercial," cried the prostitutes, in every calling.
"SeIl your soul, but sell yourself. Get with it. Stop the stalling."

31.
The low-down fish don't dare to swim too high, or they'll explode.
The high-up fish don't dare to swim too low, or they'll implode.

32.
I'm with my extra heavy date, but I'm not very fond
of the extra-heavy makeup on my self-effacing blonde.

33.
"The City is a cancer on the body politic."
"The atom shall remove the growth that makes the patient sick."

34.
The treasure fleet which sank in stormy seas, so long ago, has had no marked effect on fish economy, below.

35.
Loopholes passed the flintlock pipe of peace for half an hour.
Puffs of smoke combined to cloak a heavy leaden shower.

36.
Awakening, you find yourself still sitting in your chair;
so raise the pen you didn't drop and drop a hint, you square.

37.
A skeleton's in your closet and a mirror's in there too.
You're looking in the mirror and the skeleton's none but you.

38.
It came to pass that woman stripped Elizabethan man
of all his peacock finery, and gave him black and tan.

39.
A mole in a hole, a mut in a hut, a mouse in a house, makes three.
I'm sure you could think of many more, but three are enough for me.

40.
"Rush the beach, good Anglemen, and stop the Norman landing.
Use what strategy you will, but leave no Norman standing."

41.
I met a maid with braided hair so long it touched the ground.
I tied my hands and feet with it and swore that i'd be bound.

42.
The Skipper's pen proceeds to write upon the inky blue;
and leaves a wake of mistic words, unfathomed by the crew.

43.
Offensive and defensive weapons thought they ought to race;
but, as they ran, defensive weapons couldn't keep the pace.

44.
La donna plucked a blushing rose, her lover plucked a harp;
and when he sang, he sang of love; but sang a trifle sharp.

45.
Written with a fork-ed pen, your treaties can be broken.
Smitten with a fork-ed tongue, your Lucifer has spoken.

46.
They had their tickertape tickets which they bought with borrowed cash;
and, half insane, they took a plane they never dreamed would crash.

47.
A sunny sun and a cloudy cloud are playing peek-a-boo.
If you were here, i promise, we'd be peek-a-booing too.

48.
A boulder took an acorn in and watered him with rain.
He grew into a mighty oak and split his host in twain.

49.
"It's beautiful," i said as i beheld a marble bust.
"Just who are you to tell me so?" it muttered in disgust.

50.
Men of mirth are men of worth, wherever men are silly,
- anywhere from Athens, Greece, to Santiago, Chile.

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