Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Nantucket
Met a lady from NantucketWho kept all her dreams in a bucket.When I asked where she was going,Said, "Away from this place, it's so boring."And, for..
© Sidi Mahtrow
Nancy And Harry's Maginot Line
Digging deeper into debtWith no plans to end it yetThey only see spending.That's the hand they're playing.Their supporters with hands properly..
© Sidi Mahtrow
My Favorite Poet
Who can it be?One with a message, certainly.But wait, perhaps a bit of poignant thoughtOr maybe memory overwrought.No, that's not what I put highest..
© Sidi Mahtrow
My Banker
Was at the bank making a depositDidn't have my checkbookShe said, 'No problem.'Your driver's license please.In a flash she'd filled in the..
© Sidi Mahtrow
Mutilation, Aggrandization Or Is It Enhancement?
No part of the body is immune:From the practitioners of the artTo reshape the clayThat birth did impart.From the top, there's hair dyeAnd if that's..
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Musth
It’s that time of yearWhen they come out with nothing to fearActing as if they are “king of the hill”Knowing not the way to pass a bill.In their..
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Mud Babies From Biloxi
The southern clay is fit for turningSo this artist commence the fires to burning.Now pottery was a dime a dozen in the storeWhich meant that there..
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Mr. Slithers
Lying quietly by the fireMr. Slithers showed no careWarm and cosy was heWith no concerns about eternity.Once he had made a big mistake whenHe emerged..
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Mr. Goldstone Don'T Live Here Anymore
Remember whenHe and his wife moved in.Into the condo on the fifteenth floorWho could ask for more.Sold out to their son(Graduate of Harvard!) in..
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Mother's Day
I don't know why it's so hard to findA 'greeting' card of a different kind.One that is simple, yet so directThat is tasteful and not suspect.A card..
© Sidi Mahtrow
Morning
Sometimes at this time of yearI get up to go to the bathroomWhen you're 77 almost 78Nature calls and you answer.On the Myakka PrairieIt's never..
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Moon Rise On The Myakka Prairie
In the early mornA sighting of the moon was bornCaught in the radiance of the sunA near eclipse on the wane.Tomorrow on the distant horizonAway from..
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Moon Pies, R C's And Tom's Peanuts
Enter the half-dark gloomOf Riddlesperger's storeAnd adjust your eyes.If your nose is a-twitching,From this exercise,Perhaps you'll come to notice..
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Moon Arising
In the early mornA sighting of the moon is bornCaught in the radiance of the sunA near eclipse on the wane.Tomorrow on the distant horizonAway from..
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Mole Crickets
Never did God devise such a critterOne that creates, like man, a disasterFor the cricket for all its lifeMines the soil and causes strife.Ugly is too..
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Mister Sparkles
Standing thereRegarding those in his care,Some more asleepThan others in his keep,But all that can be rousedTo once again be surprisedBy his..
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Mirror Of Fools (Speculum Stultorum)
Nigellus Wierker wrote a satire of the workings of the Catholic ChurchNot much has changed from when he penned the worksDescribing the foibles of the..
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Miroslava's Sophia
Sophia the psychicWas perhaps slow, now quickTo surmise that along this road, so clear,Were those who did not want to hearThat what had happened many..
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Minnie The Moocher
Standing at the deli counter of the grocery storeWaiting for the order, adding just a slice more.Alongside stands a lady who seems hesitant to..
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Mighty Mersey
Water is our futureAnd if protected will secureA place for all to dwellIf not it will be a living Hell!But to blame all industries for those fewWho..
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Mick At Th' Med (After C. J. Dennis)
Cobber Mick tol how him get cut on th blockHe wz quik to say bout an to talk.Wuz in a fight?Sez he, No, not on my life.At the med bout my brokn..
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Men Have Ovaries
There hidden in the abdomenAre two glands in menPoised along side the urinary tractLocated in the lower backNever noticed until old ageThen..
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Mehitabel's Tail
she brushes against your leginsisting, or should we say begto go out as the sun goes downfor another jaunt on th' townher tail, her most precious..
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Meadow Muffins
Plop, Plop, Plop - -As they drop,Meadow Muffins by another nameBrings one's vocabulary to shame.Product of an ungulate's digestionFour stomachs and..
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Matthew Prior’s Sphnix Riddle - Legs?
Sphinx was a monster that would eatWhatever stranger she could get:Unless his ready with disclos’dThe subtle Riddle she propos’d.Oedipus was resolv’d..
© Sidi Mahtrow