Category Archives: Humor

“Party Excesses” For dVerse Poets

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For dVerse Poets, we were to write a poem using the first line of someone else’s poem as the last line in our own. My last line is from I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.

Party Excesses

The day my husband went to the clink,
I dressed up in my fanciest pink
fancy dress and donned my mink,
but found the party rinky-dink.
My patience at its very brink,
went to the kitchen for a drink,
fell victim to a cute guy’s wink
and party to his certain kink.
Was it too much, do you think?
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

for dVerse Poets  Illustration created using AI.

Another Week, Another Frying Fibday!!!

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Today’s Fibbing Friday responses are:

1. Borg:  A huge chunk of ice.
2. Caught in 4k: The condition of a tangle of spaghetti enroute to the mouth.
3. Cheese Pull: Those long strings one needs to deal with when they try to take a bite of pizza.
4. Cheugy: An edible so chewy that it makes one gag.
5. Chopped: Descriptive adjective for someone with a bad haircut.
6. Chuzz: Barely, as in, “I am chuzz 5 years old.”
7. Crash out: The partof a car–fender or bumper, perhaps––that separates and goes flying off during a car accident.
8. Blue-Pilled: Descriptive adjective for someone who has just taken a mood enhancer medication.
9. Fridge cigarette: A nicotine break on the North or South Pole.
10. Buns. What one sits upon, of course!!!

(Image created using AI.)

Beloved

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Beloved

Each morning when I wake
to shrill alarm or sweet bird song,
depending upon the requirements of my day,
you are the first to greet my opening eyes.
You rest there on the pillow next to me
in the bed where first I, then you,
have fallen to sleep the night before
too soon, too soon,
before half our words were said.

It is the first stroke of my fingers
that brings you finally to life.
Your countenance lights up
and the same love words
I revealed to you last night
are returned to me.

My hands caress
and new words come easily
first to me, then to you.
I touch gently all
your fine smoothness,
getting back
everything that I give
equal measure,
continuing our long love story
of give and take
as I shift your light frame onto my lap
to stroke your separate parts
from question mark to exclamation point.

Could a PC ever rouse this passion in me?
No way, MacBook Air. Thou art my love!

The SOCS prompt is “Love” of course. Happy Valentine’s Day !!!!

“Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire” for Fibbing Friday

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand is to define these words:

1. lowkenuinely: A lowest ranking in one’s range of knowledge or insight
2. gruzz: Those scruffy short whiskers it is the fashion for men to leave on cheeks and          neck, as though they haven’t bothered to shave for a day or two. 
3. nerf: A nerd with gruzz.
4. 41: A steak sauce created from mixing Worcestershire Sauce and 57 Sauce.
5. AFAIK: Someone who is not genuine.
6. agentic: Able to grant wishes.
7. aura farming: A lightbulb factory.
8. bed rotting: An untended flower patch.
9. blep: A softly rolled terrycloth washcloth specifically used for erasing ink errors.
10. bloatware: Photographic filming equipment specifically engineered to make a character look fatter than they really are.

Illustration created with the help of AI.

“Shipwreck of State” For The Sunday Whirl, Feb 8, 2026

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Shipwreck of State

The ship of state spins crazily, splitting at the sails.
Not a breathe of wind to fill its wings as it hesitates and fails.
It cringes as the cracks form on its masthead and beneath
and it runs ashore to crumble into pieces on the heath.
By no stretch of faith can those who watch fail to feel the quaking
as the whole world shudders at this chaos in the making.

For The Sunday Whirl the prompt words are: split cringe breathe pieces wings cracks beneath hesitates stretch ship spin chaos. Illustration created with the help of AI.

Heart of the Matter for The Weekend Writing Prompt

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Heart of the Matter

My family’s only easygoing when it isn’t moody,
and dealing with the moody times seems to be my duty.
If I were only liberated and in better shape,
I’d clamber out the window and down the fire escape
and find some other people easier to bear,
investigate the wider world and see how I would fare.
The solution to this problem you are likely to construe
if you interview my family, but I hope you never do,
for the truth is that the discord that you otherwise might see
is likely to have vanished when they’re not dealing with me!

 In case you are either related to me or only wondering–-Just kidding, folks!

The Weekend Writing Prompt is “Mood.”

 

Advice to a Poetry Critic

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Advice to a Poetry Critic

Each poet worth her salt adores
well-appointed metaphors,
but when they step up to the mike,
similes they only like.
Before you discuss simile
consult an expert vis a vis
the difference between the two
so you will never have to rue
mislabeling your imagery.
Hyperbole is not allusion,
so don’t add to the confusion.
Synecdoche to oxymoron––
as you choose what to write more on––
get their names right for your reader.
There’s more to poems than rhyme and meter!

For dVerse Poets we were to make use of simile in a poem.
I fudged a bit and gave instructions as to its proper use!

For Fibbing Friday, Jan 30, 2026

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The challenge for today for Fibbing Friday is:

1. What are florins, tanners and bobs? Different areas in a department store that sell linoleum, beauty products and haircuts
2. What is Dead Man’s Fingers? Numbness in the hands.
3. What killed the Triffids? Their super egos.
4. What’s the difference between a buck and a quid?  Bckqid.
5. How much is an old crown worth? It varies, depending on how many jewels it contains.
6. What can be known as a ‘Little Gem’? Anything under half a carat.
7. What is pearl barley? An American actress, singer, comedian and author.
8. Finish the sentence: ‘I came, I saw, I left.
9. Who said ‘Smile, it enhances your face value’? My dentist, after he saw my reaction to the bill he had just handed me.
10. Where on the human body is the zygomatic bone found? It is an area in your skull that is most affected when you over-imbibe in alcohol–causing you to walk in a zigzag pattern.

For Fibbing Friday, Jan 23, 2026

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For Fibbing Friday, the task at hand today is formidable. Let’s see if I am up to it!!!

My English translations of German Words:

1. Verklempt  A German work injury.
2, Vittle A singular piece of food in Germany
3, Vuvuzela An illness brought about by excess celebration
4, Vexillology The study of stressful situations
5. Velociraptor A very fast flying dinosaur
6. Vamoosinator A milking machine
7. Vicissitude Vivian’s sister Tootie
8. Voce What  you use to talk
9. Vagary  A soup kitchen for unemployed wanderers
10. Verbose Your immediate superior at work

I created the illustration making use of AI

 

 

“Unfortunate Choices” for Can You Tell A Story In. . .

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Peeking  out through the stage curtains, the comic realized he would be pirouetting on eggshells as he wrestled with syllables sure to displease this audience of militant women. He wished he’d checked out who his audience would be before choosing his topic. “Barefoot and Pregnant” was not going to win applause tonight!

need 6 words

For “Can You Tell A Story In…”  the task set is:

Can you tell a story in 52 words using the following words in it somewhere:

  • PIROUETTE
  • COMIC
  • EGG
  • WRESTLER
  • SYLLABLE

(Image by AI)