image link Rancid SpamMake-upped face like a hatchetponderous gait like a teletubby;not cute like snowpuff Moomin,more bloated like dying whaleflopping on a deserted beach.Long beyond expiration datelike grey-slimed celery in bin.Greasy like sauteed monkey brain, contaminating mad reign,causing pain like vice-crushedfinger with no money for treatment.A focal point of angry hatredlike a big boil on…
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Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along with a Limerick 242 — Shaggy Green (mature audiences only)
image link Shaggy Green Shaggy Green’s an old troll who does dwellin a cell where the leftovers smell.If he’d just wash his ass,he could find him a lass;a fresh one who won’t rot and gel. Note: I think my shadow wrote this one. Esther Chilton is the host of Laughing Along with a Limerick. This…
dVerse Poetics — Bird Feeder (for mature audiences)
Bird FeederYou’re so proud of yourself,trudging out in all weatherhauling sacks, scooping seeds,fastly passioned to our bellies;yet banshee-chasing squirrels,who, also famished, draw nearto sup. We, more worthy when, despite being adoring parents,remain steadfastly willful ostricheswhen our wobble-headed offspring with dark-pennied, yet-to-be-eyespeck until death their siblings?We, with our sharp-horned beaksand prehistoric reptilian feet,twitter at your ignorant…
New Years Eve Story — Elves and Vices (mature audiences only)
This is one I wrote a year or two ago, for one of Rory’s challenges. It’s becoming a holiday tradition to post it. New Years Eve: Elves and Vices‘Twas the night before New Year and all through da clubEvery creature was snorting to house tunes by Dub.Us Imps we were hung and we hoped to…
#FF — The Grass is Greener (trigger warning)
PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast The Grass is Greener “Um?” He startles. His head swivels forward to meet her stare across the restaurant table. Her face openly reveals a potent brew of surprise, amusement, disappointment, and anger. His face adopts the long-practiced mask of sheepishness, devilishness, and charisma that she fell in love with long…
Day 13 — OctWriPoMo and dVerse OLN — The Two Harveys (and now Desperate Poets)
Harvey One Harvey the Pooka with Jimmy Stewart Harvey Two Harvey Weinstein and Olivia Wilde There are 3 selections today. First, The Two Harveys, then a freestyle, then a haiku. Again, these are for mature readers over the age of 18. One is a rabbitTwo is a snakeOne is invisibleTwo is a flake One is…
#TSM239 — Sir Hugh, or le Gros (long)
Chester CathedralLearn more about this magnificent structure here. “Jesus said, ‘the water that I shall give will be an inner spring always welling up for eternal life’ ”— John 4:14 Water of Life [at Chester] Cathedral Sculpture by Broadbent (1994) to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the establishment of the Benedictine Abbey on this site. …
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