Whimsical Light Verse Poems

At eighty my beloved grandma began buying insane, whimsical things.
Filling her house up with all kinds of feathers, glitter, and bedazzled stuff.
We’ll have to have...

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We are whimsical and wonderful, wild in some ways.
Our out-of-this world imaginations are keen and mercurial.
We are the Gemini babies and watch out world for...

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I want a cobra for Christmas
Only a cobra will do
Don't want any other junk, certainly no toy
I want a cobra that will eat up a...

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Living my dream bereft of reality pressure
I zoom toward faith-venture’s pleasure
As a princess with eternal treasure
Sharing blessings beyond measure.

Being the daughter of a sovereign so...

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I was walking down the street with confidence
The day my foot fell off
At first I thought it was a joke
But it turned and 
Had its...

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Radishes, rondeaux, Renaissance and rose.
Rumpelstiltskin’s rear view is clouding my nose.
Furthermore, he’s hoarding the beautiful hose.
And I do not care for the color he’s chose.

Robust...

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Bullfrogs in the belfry – get it on.
Butterflies sipping tea – get it on.
Bananas making bread – get it on.
Bubbles beyond belief – get it...

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Nonsense soup
Slurped up easily
or gulped down
your choice actually

Swirl it
Whirl it
Swallow it with gusto

Silliness salad
Best side dish with it
Whimsical and delectable
Spinning tales


But what of dessert?
Fool’s gold...

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Galaxy in triplicate
if you don’t mind
my tail is lagging
it’s simply behind

Galaxy for all three of you?
The gentlest Greek gods?
Galaxy in triplicate, now?
What are the odds?

If...

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A magician hypnotizes me nightly, taking me to the Planet
Xerox which is in another dimension where I am turned into
A space robot or an alien....

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A mongoose lives in my upper nostril, with her man.
They make as much noise up there as they possibly can.
Honking and laughing themselves into a...

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She threw her son in the ocean.
To make him a fish.
He began treading water.
Granting her wish.

She took her daughter to parties.
To make her popular and...

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Three fine fellows listening 
   to a concerto of cello
Dined at a picnic 
   under a weeping willow
While one turtle flew...

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Wonderful smart—thinking Dr. Theophrastus
Has sold poetry books the utterly fastest.
His lines are tricky. They rhyme and dance.
His words are sticky. They preen and they prance.

His...

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Come into my restaurant said the spider to the fly.
I am serving wally beetle juice which you will need to try.
I am not sold on...

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