#limericks

My son's walls sport pictures of tombs,
my daughter's have sickly pink 'shrooms,
Zephuros and faeries;
so, parents, be wary:
Don't let kids decorate their own rooms!

#LimerickChallenge: zephyr
#SmallPoems #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity

#limericks

A parcel of cookies! how scrummy!
They sped to his greedy, fat tummy.
But the glazing was laced
with arsenic paste;
when you're rich, you can't even trust mummy.

(For the curious, she'd been careful to leave no incriminating trails, and as the list of people the blighter had done over was not short and the trust dissolved, nothing could be proved—she got the lot.)

#LimerickChallenge: scrummy; #VSSPoem: momma
#SmallPoems #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity

ㅤ utter your paeans
to a moon indifferent
chill and distant

when a candle
pricks through the cloak of night
no need of plasters

#haiku #HaikuChallenge: utter
#DailyHaikuChallenge: moon (@dailyhaikuprompt)
#VSSCollab: candle; #VSSHumour: prick;#LimerickChallenge: bandaid)