Say Cheese: Senryu

SAY CHEESE

Is there anyone
More small-minded than experts
Who need to prove it?

We’ve All Come Across Him: Senryu

WE’VE ALL COME ACROSS HIM

He’s very clever
But he’s not half as clever
As he thinks he is

Poets Out Loud: Four By Six

POETS OUT LOUD

Let’s share our poetry
For without that I fear
It might quickly descend
Into onanism

WhatsApp Addiction

WHATsAPP ADDICTION

Let us smile together then
As introvert to introvert
Observing all these others
Shake our heads in unison

Send forth wave on wave
Of compassion – if not quite
Waves of understanding
The latter being beyond us

Noting too that they saw fit
To castrate the apostrophe!!!
Arrogance? Guilty as charged
At least we’re working on it

Self-importance

SELF-IMPORTANCE

“Now I understand”
We say, but it is simply
An understanding

Talking Shit (A Four By Six)

TALKING SHIT

Insoluble fibre
Bulking the verbiage
Promotes movement of waste
In the discursive tract