Privileged Repose

Aside a dusty carriageway
She waits in soft ennui,
New kicks on casual display,
Her legs at languorous ease.

The sounds of father redirecting men
Upon their enterprise
Commingles with the hot industrious din;
The princess shuts her eyes.
Upon their back-bent labor workers creep,
Soon lulling her to sleep.

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This is an entry in this week’s YeahWrite poety challenge: https://yeahwrite.me/current-weekly-challenges/

The entry is for two of the prompts: the picture itself, and the emotion of schadenfreude.

Overheard at the Beach

On a day more suitable for the beach than the office, here is another groaningly over-reached pun on the WordPress daily writing prompt …

Hodad:
“Dude, I think you missed your crest!
You should be up there with the rest.”

Surfer:
“But then I’m only following the wake.
Sh*t, I’d rather go for outside break.”

The Super Is a Pooper

For a little change of pace, this is not a response to the WordPress Daily Writing Prompt. Instead, it’s a response to this news item: Mystery pooper at N.J. high school’s track turned out to be superintendent

This stuff really happens. I just make poems about it. 😉

There’s something laying on the track,
A shiny little tube of black.
I’ve seen one like it every morn;
Wherefrom are these wonders born?

Do relay racers drop baton?
Is this a daily doggie bomb?

Who thinks our track’s an outdoor pooper?
I can’t believe it. It’s our Super!

Can’T Werk

This medical corset’s not working.
As a dancer, my duties I’m shirking!
When I bent to plie
I felt something give way.
Now this ab rupture keeps me from twerking.

Thready To Leave

Overheard at the haberdashery convention:

“That tailor is sew off the cuff–
Compleately biased basting.
He’s darning us with verbal darts
And notions not worth facing.”

“It seams his chintzy wares will also reek.
Let’s leave before he comes unknit in pique.”

Genie Us

This messy kitchen’s looking awfully heinous.
It’s so depressing, it’s begun to drain us.
But washing dishes, that is sure to pain us.

Your papal “we” makes you sound like a weenie, Gus.
By use of magic bottle this demise we’ll suss.
A gentle rub and out comes jinn to genie us!

WordPress daily writing prompt (word highlighted above).

Natty and Gnatty

Gnatty:
“I like your shirt. Did you just buy it? It looks so crisp and natty.
If you don’t mind my saying so, your old one was so ratty.”

Natty:
“That’s very kind of you, my dear, and you appear less fatty.
I noticed that your fly’s loose though—the room is getting gnatty.”

WordPress daily writing prompt (word highlighted above).

 

 

Monday Morning Storm

Monday morning, sunlight swarm.
Time for me to re-conform,
Pour flab back into uniform
And like professional perform.
Alas—a giant email storm.

WordPress daily writing prompt (word highlighted above).

 

Shear Pink

When I think
Upon the pink
It brings me nearly
To the brink.

Who knew that wink
In biped crink
Could spill such ink,
Whole day could kink?

While it drips into the sink
Perhaps I’ll have another drink
And do my best this wound to prink,
This papercut from which I shrink.

WordPress daily writing prompt: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/pink/

Bee Careful

I swear it was just temporary,
The lid left off the apiary.

It’s not a reason to be bitter;
Sweet’s abundant from these critters.

The little part I’d left exposed
Feels better now with gauze enclosed.

The only source of worry left is you,
Whom nest of angry bees does now pursue.

WordPress daily writing prompts (words highlighted above).