Rhyme Of The Day

 Most “right” names have a W.  Which comes from old English for maker.  But Enright is from a different root, And so it’s a spelling rule br...

 Muse, I have done as you asked, I have tried hard to serve.  Dazzled I was, by the sound of the spoken word, Spoken with aural charms but n...

 If Pharma sold us Exercise  Embedded in a pill With all the same Health Benefits, Without the need for Will, Then everyone would swallow it...

John the Baptist spoke unpleasantly  About higher ups, and presently  His head was brought forth on a platter.  It seems that surely this wo...

 The stick looks straight underwater.  The stick looks straight aboveground.  The stick looks bent when halfway in, But at least it doesn’t ...

 I think it’s hard to be a movie star.  You do not have much job security - You know how fickle audiences are.  So when you stare off at fut...

 Some people try to make the case That time is an illusion, But having run a lengthy race, This seems like more confusion.  Memories come fr...

Sometimes I find, when I am procrastinating,  It helps to visualize a rubber band  That's pulling me to the task that I am hating,  And,...

Statistical artifacts are my favorite kind of facts, Luring you in, making you look front and back, Mathematical mirages of causality, Re...

Imagination’s great for writing plays But when it comes to grief, it just delays Acceptance, since they seem to reappear In flashes. Sharply...

It’s an arbitrary date  That we use to mark the year  But we’ve got to mark it somewhere  So it might as well be here.  The Roman god named ...

 My parents met at a Christmas party.  He offered to walk her home but she declined, Living, as she did, just across the alley.  I guess she...

I emulate an emu  I met at the local zoo.  Whatever he does, I do,  Except for certain things,  Such as flapping my wings,  That make me loo...

The serpent whispered that the tree of knowledge would confer Godliness upon them both, knowing good and evil.  She tasted of the fruit, and...

We are born in medias res,  Amid stories already proceeding.  We sift through what everyone says,  And try to discern where it’s leading

She told me that at first reading,  The script did not seem funny.  She saw conflicts, hearts bleeding  On the page, but nothing sunny.  The...

I know some playwrights can’t stand to watch Performances of their plays. They hold to some ideal standard And prefer to avert their gaze.  ...

They say that poems by Emily,  So measured, terse, and sure,  Are suited to the melody  That tolled the Minnow's tour.  And though I ple...

What kind of dial can bite your hand? A crocodile - they ought to be banned! What kind of key throws poop at your head? A monkey, of course ...

Pronouns may be well and good,  But anti-nouns are best.  In English you just pin a "not"  Upon a pronoun's chest. " Not ...