Couplets

After you, my love, my only prize
Would be a bullet between my eyes

Originally posted by Kewpie
After you, my love, my only prize
Would be a bullet between my eyes

Kind of depressed today?

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Kind of depressed today?

Roses are red, violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet, and so are you.

But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead,
The sugar bowl's empty and so is your head.

I have the measles and the mumps,
a spotty rash and purple bumps.

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." (Pope)

one plus one is two
why then, my love, are we two one?

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

This one never made sense to me, I thought it should be "Humpty Dumpty climbed on a wall ...."

If couplets use iambs, iambs
and people say, 'I am, I am'(s),
how do we doodle our doodles
without Kewpie and Noodles?

Originally posted by Kewpie
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

This one never made sense to me, I thought it should be "Humpty Dumpty climbed on a wall ...."

That's from the Lost Prequels.

Sir James Dewar
Is cleverer than you are.
None of you asses
Can condense gases.

[/science humor]

I shoot the Hippopotamus
with bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
his hide is sure to flatten 'em.

{chapter heading poem in a thermodynamics book}

Knives and Forks,
Forks and Knives:
Tines and Burls,
Burls and Tines.

Dining and Eating,
Eating and Dining:
Please. Thank you.
Thank you. Please.

Originally posted by Paul Dirac II
I shoot the Hippopotamus
with bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
his hide is sure to flatten 'em.

{chapter heading poem in a thermodynamics book}

I really liked this one 🙂 It's nicely camouflaged too, I had to read it aloud to hear the rhyme.

"Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert.
Last time thou tried to fly thou splatted in the dirt."
(anon)

Hail to thee, Miss Mayberry.
Hail to thee, Miss Mayberry.

--Floyd the barber in his side job as song composer 😵