Rare Perspective
It’s said a real good diet was
What kept young Elvis slender
But I think that his secret was
He just Loved Meat Tender
On the One Hand
The Ambidextrous Society
Is growing every night
Because of all the people
Joining left and right
Nuns of the Above
A trio of nuns are lawyers
And the public is in awe
With the name they gave their practice
The Three Sisters in Law
Limerick
A watchmaker got in a bind
The stresses made him almost blind
I hope the occasion
Of a two week vacation
Will give him some time to unwind
Never a Sonnet Be
Sonnets I have tried to write
The format stilted, hard
Attempts that turn out very trite
Unlike writings from the bard
His words betray grand eloquence
Poetic lines and verses
From me, linguistic malevolence
With ungrammatic curses
I’ve tried and tried and I have failed
The work of an amateur
A literary ocean I have sailed
In moronic pentameter
And so, with this, I admit defeat
My sonnetic aspirations incomplete
Flower Report
February’s bursting
With climatic thrills
Battling the last
Of winter’s chills
And everything’s coming up roses
Except for those yellow and white flowery things
Which are stubbornly coming up daffodils
And, Another Limerick
One cannibal student’s odd feature
Showed he was an abnormal creature
His cooking friends say
That he got an ‘A’
By buttering up his teacher
Kevin Ahern is an Oregon State University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In his retirement, he writes verses.
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