Archive for Humour/Satire

1. UNTITLED HAIKU • by Rachel Sutcliffe 7 Comments

   topless in morning mist trees   Rachel Sutcliffe As a youngster I had a great imagination and I loved story and poetry writing. For a while my creative writing took a back seat as I discovered the joys of foreign language learning. However I remained an avid reader despite not writing as much myself. Personal [...]

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2. EX-ERCISE • by Ian Williams 3 Comments

   I flirted briefly with exercise; bumping into each other at a New Year’s Eve party, promising to meet up in January. So we did. I got all dressed up and wore a rose in my cheeks. After a slow start we hit it off, became firm friends, met regularly, went for long walks, bicycle rides, [...]

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3. THE SEMINARY OFFERED A FULL REFUND • by Chuck Von Nordheim 2 Comments

   “Let’s marinate your God,” she said, “in this epidemic of gin until the peaberry bitterness of his chess player strategy for my personal salvation becomes as listless as sea-star tides washing a coral orchard.”   He’d known a girl with pink yarn tied around her ponytail before but she was his first with a tattoo. [...]

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4. SATURDAY MORNING • by Annette Volfing 3 Comments

   Unfriended on Facebook,   telly broke.   He wakes to porridge skies, wonders what next.   The bottle’s left a purple ring.     Annette Volfing teaches Medieval German Literature at Oriel College, Oxford

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5. WHEN I DREAMED I WAS EMILY DICKINSON… • by Lucie M. Winborne 2 Comments

   I took a summer garret with a winter chill and wore black clothes that stained my pores with ink   Not inspiration   Which, dank upon the page, left blots upon my thoughts of what a poet ought to be:   The muse that spoke to Emily does not yet speak to me.   Lucie [...]

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6. RICH DIET • by William Dexter Wade 4 Comments

   The young and the homeless set up tents In the city parks ‘cross the land They thought it not funny that most of the money was locked in the iron hand of the fabulously wealthy who were most unwilling to share so they built a fire, a great roaring fire and sat down in the [...]

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7. NEIGHBOR • by Richard Pannbacker 7 Comments

   My neighbor just died. He’d been sick, but still… He was part of my landscape. Lawn always mowed and trimmed, His Christmas lights always up early, Now there’s a hole in the fabric of my life. If somehow I could just remember his name.     Richard Pannbacker is a retired PhD/teacher/shepherd. He writes short [...]

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8. THE CRAVEN • by William Dexter Wade 4 Comments

     Once against a boat rail breezy, where I staggered green and queasy, Staring downward, eyes unfocussed, at the roiling brine below There I leaned in ghostly pallor, totally bereft of valour Airline travel, it seemed to me, is surely a better way to go Oh God yes! anything but this is a better way [...]

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9. LIGHT ON IMMIGRATION • by Magdalen 5 Comments

   Wait just a durn Where do you think yer going? Papers please-a-plenty plus pardon me, may I see sights ought naught a stranger should, otherwise would limit — drink that! fill this. Do not piss me off if you’d have a whiff of US. Go ahead and cuss to fit right in Wait. Okay, just [...]

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10. METEOROLOGY WITH MORNING COFFEE • by William Dexter Wade 3 Comments

    though unseen, the sun rose at seven o six, and could have done so an hour earlier if not clawed back by the government   the odds are three in ten that god’s tears will fall from an overcast sky   a swedish astronomer declares the mercury to stand at one degree but the wind [...]

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