Category Archives: humor

STRANGER THINGS…

Stranger outcomes happen,

When opportunity’s tapping,

Wanting in

And you begin

Writing ideas you’re trapping!

He’s written ’bout Christ and trains–

Weather seems worth one’s pains….

Fashion poems are new

As something to do,

And the challenge takes working brains!

I’d say it is channeling energy,

Most of which has left me….

Shapes and sizes

And stylish surmises,

Still need a bard’s entrée.

“An eye for the women.” one said,

Focusing on their clothes instead..

“Clothes make the man”

And women, and can

Leave little more to be said!

YET–a poet describes,

Details that emanate vibes…

Along a track

That likes feedback,

Both positive and wise!

–Jonathan Caswell

 

 

 

OUR FORMER DETECTIVE

OUR FORMER DETECTIVE

A woman came in to look

for her specially-marked book…

She’d put it down

Somewhere around,

By somebody else was it took?

In court offices she was known

As “detective”, reputation grown

Over time

‘Csuae she would find

Anything with enough time sown.

I hope her confession is true,

Because books around here have two…

Legs and walk

Off in the dark,

Whether marked…or new!

(I didn’t do it—-hones—not this time!)

–Jonathan Caswell

FREE TABLE

FREE TABLE

There is a table in the Common Room

That used to be called “FREE”…

anything left there disappeared

If any had want or need.

Once i left an article there,

In a wink it was nearly gone….

My boss had to rescue it from the one

Who thought it could be his to own!

Technically–it’s no longer free—

but people remember their ways…

More than remember new-fangled rules

Don’t leave it there in malaise.

DOUGLAS NATIVE PHILOSOPHY

DOUGLAS NATIVE PHILOSOPHY

This morning we lost power,

It does no good to glower…

Break out an oil lamp

If we have to, we’ll camp

On a relative’s door a few hours!

–Jonathan Caswell

DRIVING HOME ONE NIGHT

DRIVING HOME ONE NIGHT

When the radio seems to be jinxed,

One’s mind often wanders and thinks…

Do skuunks in play

Practice their spray,

And what the other skunk thinks?

–Jonathan Caswell

SHE SUFFERS NOT ALONE!

SHE SUFFERS NOT ALONE!

We both were getting the mail,

I “let one go” without fail…

She replied in passing

Her husband’s gassing,

Made mine hardly worth travail!

–Jonathan Caswell

CHEAP CUISINE WITH HUMMUS

CHEAP CUISINE WITH HUMMUS

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Hummus and peanut butter,

Does it make you mutter,

Turning stomachs over into tidy knots…

If you’re cheap but refined

This may come to mind

For the cultured but impoverished have-nots!

–Jonathan Caswell

EXIT STRATEGY

EXIT STRATEGY

—AT THE END OF A WORK DAY

We all have our bad days,

That  follow us quite a ways…

Get to that door

Don’t worry anymore,

And take a new appraise!

–Jonathan Caswell

SASQUATCH AND BIG FOOT

SASQUATCH AND BIGFOOT

Have you seen Sasquatch and Bigfoot,

Not hearing anything…is it good…

To leave them alone

Undetected to roam.

When they’re barely understood?

On COAST-TO-COAST RADIO, Yeti,**

Have allegedly hooked up with Betty…

But no one admits

The Yeti did it,

Nor a woman with a Yeti as steady.

Unlike alien abduction,

Where victims get no introduction…

Just fuzzy memoriy

Of technology

And aliens who care for nothing.

Yet humanoid science raises

Opportunity for these crazes…

Few pictures appear

To support what we hear,

But the story always amazes.

–Jonathan Caswell

** COAST-TO-COAST AM, with George Noory.  Yeti is another variation of Bigfoot, in more snowy regions of the world.