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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. …

‘Tis I, Marie (repost)

Dave, at A Sound Day, posted a Redbone Halloween song and talked about “The Witch Queen of New Orleans” a real person. That reminded me of a poem I wrote about her awhile back. OK, this one needs a WARNING. Adults only and not for the faint of heart. “Tis I, Marie, you come to…