Light Verse Poems | Light Verse Examples

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A light verse is a typically short form of poem that attempts to be humorous, frivolous, or playful, but there is more to light verse. What is light verse in poetry (complete definition)?

SO SHE DOES LOVE ME-

She says she loves me yet how do I know; For she show because, she stands, she prays, she stays… She doesn’t walk away; O' so she does love me; 4/26/24 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024© ...Read the rest...

For Arbor Day, April 26, 2024

Have you hugged a tree today? If you haven't, then you should. It doesn't take a lot of time, And might do you both some good. A hug's a way to show you care Without spending lots of dough. Just...Read the rest...

Gasless Beans

Flackmoth wishes his love of legumes was not accompanied by foul fumes. Not having to release a whiff of flatulence would prevent incurring that other offense and social stigma, the “stinkma.” ...Read the rest...

Shifts in Perception

"Shifts.." In perception Seem to happen Unpredictably Immediately as Nothing appears.. Astoundingly Without instruction Without fanfare......Read the rest...

Stillness as Story

Stillness Without an opposite Appears as opposite.. This story appearing as Not even stillness......Read the rest...

Suit and Tie

Flackmoth says he wouldn’t be caught dead in a suit and tie; but then ruefully reflects he likely will – unless he doesn’t die. Either way, with or without, he still will have to be laid out – and...Read the rest...

Teeth and Ears

Flackmoth chuckles when he hears chickens have neither teeth nor ears. Nothing strange about that, he said? “I’m nearly deaf now and in a few years I expect no tooth left in my head. Deaf and toothless chickens will still...Read the rest...

Miss Bellmont

Miss Bellmont, you know the type, expresses everything with hype. At a gala party not long ago her bra strap suddenly let go as she danced the ballroom floor. To the astonishment of all guests, she described her falling breasts as an...Read the rest...

BEHOLDING WHOLE-

I came unto you broken Now I'm taken remolden World won't be holden, me... I am no longer, shattered and broken I am beholden Whole 4/23/24 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2024...Read the rest...

can the llama see

Can the llama see? We truly did not know How can he not get lost? Where does he go? The llama began to buck. He saw his chance, he spun his luck He flipped his hair and gave me the eye I...Read the rest...

those are the ones

The doctor spent hours fitting me with glasses Those are the ones! My owner said. Valentines Day is coming up. And they will look cute at Christmas said her partner. I was more than a little annoyed. They were not...Read the rest...

Parallel Lights

i dip in the Sun's ink to write the known... the Moon dips into my soul's ink to write the unknown... April 21st 2021...Read the rest...

Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Old MacDonald or Afoul of Vowels

Old MacDonald had a farm With some noisy critters on it. They mostly mooed, or neighed, Or clucked, or brayed, But some stayed Resolutely mute, I'm afraid. It wasn't his equines, Or bovines, Or fowls, Or anything lodged in his barns or corrals, But a couple...Read the rest...

how was it back in the day

How was it back in the day? The second-grader asked me. I knew by now he thought I was at least a hundred and three. We rode in Conestoga wagons for months, I told him. Threw pianos...Read the rest...

Peaks and Valleys

Those highs and lows Peaks and valleys Appear to be arising.. It is the script which Seems as a script Or seems not..these "Seemings" are Simply not two.. Rendering the scripts Filled with the Freedom of what is Unknowable... ...Read the rest...

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