Stars - Tony Gardner

I'm wondering if all the stars

Are red and ruddy just like Mars

If all shine with a twinkling light

Or some are incandescent white

There may be some we’ve never seen

That glister with soft shades of green

But floating in the Milky Way

They may be forty shades of Grey.

Tony Gardner


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At La Catioroc - Oscar Milde

Friday, midnight, moon is waning,
fortunately it’s not raining,
as three naked women frolic
in a habitat, bucolic.
Drinking potions, chanting spells,
these post-menopausal belles
try to summon up their Master,
dancing faster, ever faster
by the light of a small campfire
made of tinder and of damp briar.
In the bushes lurks old Mourant,
toothless, lecherous, unpleasant.
He leaps out, his flies asunder:
at that very moment, thunder
and a vivid flash of lightning,
simultaneous with this sighting,
quickly shatter their delusion
and they scatter in confusion …
To The Press, the witches said
how they were terrified and fled
and how clearly they remember
Satan had a tiny member.

Oscar Milde

Image : Pixabay - TheDigitalArtist

Deadline - Lyndon Queripel

With the cost of living
And the price of dying
It’s no wonder at all
To the Lord I pray
That I can afford to pay
For my own funeral.

Lyndon Queripel

Image : Pixabay - TheDigitalArtist

Kittens and Puppies (What the f?!) - Ian Renouf-Watkins

Ooh and aah we whine as puppies gambol
Aah and ooh we purr as kittens caper
Their tom-foolery consummately droll
As they fumble around in toilet paper.
Chocolate boxes and gushing adverts
Sentimentality dripping off every frame
Pets at home, pets in the park, pets asleep
And even dogs that apparently play cards.
So when you’re next fussing over pets
Remember the Syrians, Yemeni’s too
Afghans and Libyans forgotten by you
Bleeding and dying left without hope
But then again, that puppy is so dope.


Image : Pixabay - janeb13

Without Djokovic in the Game - Kathy Figueroa

Way down south in Aussie Land
We now know where the unvaxxed stand -
If trying to cross that border
They’ll be deported in short order

It doesn’t matter if you’re a tennis star
That’s come to play, and travelled far
To participate in the Australian Open
The Australian Border Force has now spoken

Novak Djokovic is a tennis hero
But to Aussie PM Scott Morrison, he’s a zero
Novak’s tested positive for COVID-19 in the past
And his natural immunity should indefinitely last

But they won’t let him enter the land “down under”
“No vax? No pass!” they proclaim and thunder
The 2022 Australian Open won’t be the same
Without Novak Djokovic in the game

Kathy Figueroa


Image : Pixabay - Tumisu