P.S. A Column On Things

Paul’s Poetry Corner: Different Ways of Saying I Love You

Link to: Different Ways of Saying I Love You

Which begins:
“You are such a sweet kisser,
And so generous with them.”
It’s just a different way of saying
I love you.

Paul’s Poetry Corner: Happiness Is Wanting What You Have

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Which includes:
Happiness is wanting what you have.
Because you can’t always have what you want.

Paul’s Poetry Corner: Cut Them Off At The Impasse

Link to: Cut Them Off At The Impasse

Which begins:
The scariest moment of my life,
On my birthday, in 1978.
…“I feel like maybe we’ve reached an impasse right now.”

Paul’s Poetry Corner: The Man You Deserve

Link to: The Man You Deserve

Which begins:
Art can come from the overheard.
“It’s cute the way you keep trying to turn me into the man you deserve.”
A line, delivered in jest,
By a husband to his wife after 40 years.

Paul’s Poetry Corner: Pauli's In Our Garden

Link to: Pauli's In Our Garden
by Carol Rowe (who was my babysitter, pre-1957)

Which begins:
Here he comes! For heaven's sake
Hide the nozzle and stow the rake!
…When the sun lives next door-
in Pauli!

Paul’s Poetry Corner: Six-Foot, Woo!

Link To: Six-Foot, Woo!
Which begins:

(parody of Five-Foot Two)

Six-foot, woo! Eyes of Blue
42 years spent with you,
I love it when I see my gal.

And a poem I did NOT write, but rather a limerick that came to my attention this week:

There once was a girl from Madras
Who had such a beautiful ass -
It was not round and pink
(As you bastards think)
But had two ears, a tail, and ate grass.

Paul’s Poetry Corner: The Queen of Letting Go

Link To: The Queen of Letting GoWhich begins:

I didn’t know it at the time,
But I married the Queen of Letting Go.
I don’t know the King of Letting Go,
But I feel sure I’ll never see him in the mirror,
Unless he stands behind me.

Paul’s Poetry Corner: Farmers' Market Blues

Link To: Farmers' Market Blues
Which begins:

I woke up this morning,
Put on my shoes,
Knew I’d be singing
The Farmers Market Blues

Paul’s Poetry Corner: Karma

Link to: Karma
Which begins:
American understanding of karma: a glitch,
Cause often we say that “Karma’s a bitch.”

Paul’s Poetry Corner: Meter and Muse

Link to: Meter and Muse
Which begins:

“It don’t mean a thing,
If you ain’t got that swing,”
Is a lyric from long ago.
In poetry meter means swing,
But I find it a difficult thing.