Terse Verse
poem by:
Geoffrey Brewer
Written
on Nov 07, 2016
TERSE VERSE A selection of miscellaneous poems who's only connection is that they are all short. THE PIG Oh pig! Our blessings are upon you. In our hearts you did awaken A sense of gratitude unstinting for bringing home the bacon THE MEERKAT Meerkats are delightful beasts, arousing warm affection They achieve this by standing up and looking in the same direction PROLOGUE to teaching Japanese students in Oxford We come again to dreaming spires To find quiescent embers or sparks And rekindle, give life to dormant fires Of creativity in young Nippon hearts MEA CULPA While the sins of others may give pain with which I'm fraught They don't cause me unceasing distress that lingers within It's those things that I did but should not have or didn't but ought That nag me in the wee small hours and stay under my skin ANNIVERSE Through 39 years; that's half my life! Through thick and thin with tears and laughs We've stayed together, me old trouble and strife With you and this one being my better half THE NOUN Without a noun It's sad but true There'd be nothing to be, there'd be nothing to do Furthermore if it's nouns that we're eschewing What's to have the having? what's to do the doing? THE BARE INFINITIVE Unlimited by person or tense Unbarred by prepositional fence In naked freedom primitive There sits the bare infinitive
Tags: happy, love, humor, rhyme,
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Cecilia Crasto commented:
Love the humor and rhyme, it comes together and makes for a wonderful read, I hope you've considered publishing your poems-Writers Relief is a good site and this is the type of poetry they look for.
Geoffrey Brewer
commented:
Cecilia, thank you for your encouraging comments and suggestion. I will look into Writers Relief.
A previous user
commented:
Cecilia, thank you for your encouraging comments and suggestion. I will look into Writers Relief.
