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An Overflowing Cup of Couplets
1.
Choice is good, and so is bliss.
(Someone wiser told me this.)
2.
In the margin of a book
Someone counted commas—look!
3.
If the final stretch is wide,
You might weave from side to side.
4.
Does your chest hurt? Doesn’t matter.
What’s that on your hand—blood spatter?
5.
Pull the lever, pull it hard,
And then play your wildest card.
6.
Lone, not lonely, is the house
Without cricket, fly, or mouse.
© 2021 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More The Whirligig #334
More Writers’ Pantry #86 at Poets and Storytellers United
More The Whirligig #334
More Writers’ Pantry #86 at Poets and Storytellers United
Four Aphorisms for a Time of Plague
1
Unforeseen disasters wait
Just outside the garden gate
2
Pity those who lose their smiles
On the heartless COVID miles.
3
Comfort for tormented eyes
Is what doctors all advise.
4
If you let your lungs get wet,
You may drown in deep regret.
Rhyming couplets © 2020 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More The Whirligig #277
More Writers’ Pantry #31 at Poets and Storytellers United
Jump-Rope Rhymes
Fiction, grammar, prose, and mood—
Keep on jumping, don’t be rude!
Edit, conflict, stanza, plot—
This old rope is getting hot!
Punctuation helps the pace—
Jump up higher, jump with grace!
Rhythm makes good poetry—
Keep on jumping, and you’ll see!
© 2020 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Is God Asleep
1
I choke on soot, my homeland shudders;
“Is God asleep?” the prophet mutters.
2
With fire on my tongue, how brave can I be?
Braver than ships exploring the sea?
3
Mine are the questions that no one answers;
At half past midnight, I join the dancers.
4
With reverence and gratitude I pause—
The white wolf takes me gently in his jaws.
Couplets © 2020 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More The Whirligig #270
More Writers’ Pantry #24 at Poets and Storytellers United
More The Whirligig #270
More Writers’ Pantry #24 at Poets and Storytellers United
Seven Couplets to Ponder or Ignore
1
Wisdom comes from roots and stones,
Often from the sparrow’s bones.
2
Sending healing thoughts to you!
Hope you’re better, yes, I do!
3
Lines unfolding one by one—
All too soon my work is done.
4
In the realm of string and twine,
Will you be my valentine?
5
Lessons near the frigid coast
Are the ones I hate the most!
6
If your foremother should come,
Toot a horn and pound a drum!
7
Spirit wide and Spirit deep,
Do not make me, Spirit, weep.
Couplets © 2020 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More The Whirligig #269
More Writers’ Pantry #23 at Poets and Storytellers United
More The Whirligig #269
More Writers’ Pantry #23 at Poets and Storytellers United
Anagram Fun
OPTS
She opts to go where angels fear—
Let’s opt to go with her, my dear.
POTS
Pots and pans and silverware!
Chocolate frosting in my hair!
TOPS
On the nudist beach flip-flops
May be worn, but never tops.
SPOT
Spot the spider in its web,
Watch its life both flow and ebb.
POST
Post a letter to a friend,
May your friendship never end.
STOP
Stop this nonsense, stop at once!
Or are you some kind of dunce?
Couplets © 2020 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Weird Couplets for Ending the Year
Reasonable weather will come, and it will go.
Why weather does the things it does, who can ever know?
What’s the point of running when running’s such a pain?
By running from your problems, what do you hope to gain?
A newborn calf and camel are nuzzling the same cow.
Despite its humpy little back the desert beast knows how.
A legion of angels, if I should insist,
Will stay by my side until they’re dismissed.
I have no interest, darling, in dragging out this year.
It’s almost gone—good riddance! Do I make that clear?
Poem © 2019 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sunday’s Whirligig #245
More Pantry of Poetry and Prose #9 at Poets United
More Sunday’s Whirligig #245
More Pantry of Poetry and Prose #9 at Poets United
Quirky Couplets
How bothersome it is when flies
Buzz my coffee at sunrise!
If you have a fretful wife,
Be prepared for lots of strife!
Swat the spider, set it free
From its webbed captivity!
A deep hole—imagine that!
Will it fit inside my hat?
My bicycle is looping round and round the park;
Morning, noon, and afternoon—even in the dark!
Roses for the weekend, every weekday too;
Roses, darling, roses—yellow ones for you.
Couplets © 2019 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sunday’s Whirligig #242
More Pantry of Poetry and Prose #6 at Poets United
More Sunday’s Whirligig #242
More Pantry of Poetry and Prose #6 at Poets United
Three Aphorisms
I.
Watch the dog leaping and learn from the monk;
Not all meditation needs to be junk.
II.
Cowardice protects you when the tigers come:
Jump the paddock wall, my friend, and run like hell, just run!
III.
Those who sit together and those who sit apart,
Know that sitting shiva is a quiet art.
Poems © by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sunday’s Whirligig #211
More Poetry Pantry #478 at Poets United
Three Couplets
I.
Daylight, and the drunk man falls forward on his face;
He lacks a map to guide him to a better place.
II.
Sometimes a hearth that’s spacious holds only hints of fire—
Little coals that soon grow cold like everyone’s desire.
III.
Anywhere is nowhere when money creeps inside;
Beware when words become a place for your lies to hide.
Poems © by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sunday’s Whirligig #210
More Poetry Pantry #448 at Poets United
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