Lessons in Brevity

Some shorty's.

Lesson 1: Rabbit Punch 

I punch you in the face

Everyone knows I kicked your a*s

But superficial wounds heal....quickly

I punch you in the kidney

And the effect lasts much longer

Blood in the urine, hitch in your....giddyup

I punch you with my words

And you run screaming my name

The world listens and you make me....famous

Lesson 2: The Flood

In the face of the flood

Only two male poets could be found

And ushered to the ark

They pretended to write beauty

But did they know of such things

Never having given birth

The world did the best they could

In light of the circumstances

After all, stars are beautiful too

Then she was born.....

Lesson 3: Review Senryu

review drips butter

on your firm, well rounded a*s

slip, slap and giggle

Lesson 4: The Wolf

I take my steaming supper on a granite shelf

The same one your grandma kept her clown collection on

I invited you to join me but you insisted that you were a vegetarian

Last week I saw you eat a chicken feathers and all, still warm

Lying only prolongs the inevitable, two kids and an old woman

Tomorrow I dine by candlelight, on your still twitching carcass

Not the way I wanted to dine together sweetheart

But your coldness makes you.... the fourth pig

© 2010 Crowley

 

Author's Note

Cheating?

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

wow, what a question you ask here...poets write about beauty but do they really know about it...or just pretend...or is it beauty who is the pretender.
that candlelight can be pretty deceptive...
j.

[Ken Simm.]

Now these hit me on so many levels and apparently in so many places. Words to take on board and use. Witty and pithy. Yes I said pithy.

[Chris Shaw]

Blimey Crowley. These are all sooooo good. You know how to punch don't ya? Your lessons, a lesson to all of us.

Chris

[Neville]

This... or these are summat else squire.. magnificent on their Tod or collectively.. it dont really matter.. bloomin brill .. I Just dont know how or why I have only just stumbled on them.. or it.... Go good my friend and true... N :)

[Robert Trakofler]

Hey..... no bunny punching, we are delicate creatures! Okay maybe we aren't... but it is important that they think we are so we can kick them when they aren't looking and scurry away all innocent like to wright another day! very raw and powerful mix of poems in here Mr. Crowley your one bad carnivorous bunny.

[Onlyme]

Wow, Crowley, never piss a man off or cheat. Witty, colour and entertaining. Cat Claws be coming out next from this b***h you wrote about.

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

I think your soulful wit surpasses too many...they just dont know how to phrase a review for these things:) It happens with too much personality!