Beryl Dov

"Finding Fault [10w] + {Couplet} We find in others faultWhenever our wounds perceives salt."

"Loneliness [10w] Loneliness is GPS equipped new Mercedeswith nowhere to go.****************"

"Visual Pun [10w] Example of visual pun:cloud shaped like a banana peel."

"Spirituality and Aging Spirituality comes naturally to the old because they're running out of options."

"Glow in the Dark "You've led me from stark nightwith a love that glows in the dark."

"Grateful [10w] + [10w] If you can't think of anything you should be grateful for,think that you can think and be grateful for that."

"Pun vs. Puny [10w] + {Couplet} "His penis was a pun,judging by the predictable groans.The hours set by innuendos,the seconds by the moans."

"Ode to a Wastepaper Basket I love the way you sit in the corner,gracious like a lover,catching my every crumpled vanity."

"As Dead As "Nothing's changed at my place of birth.It is as dead as I remember leaving it."

"A Poem Must Have an Accomplice If you cannot bamboozle the reader into becoming a willing accomplice to your artifice and collusion the poem won't fly."

"Money vs. Happiness [10w] Why do people with money say,'money can't buy happiness'?"

"Shiva Haiku Sitting shiva.One more day of thisand I'll die of boredom."

"The Tragedy of Forgetfulness When you stop loving someone,in order to heal your memory of them begins to fade.Unfortunately, the good ones fade with the bad and suddenlyyears of your life have disappeared."

"Upgrading [10w] Promise them the worldto get the universe in return."

"Too Much Information You must empty your mind of garbage to let new garbage in."

"The Pompous Psychopomp Its your charge to provide me safe passage to the afterlife,to be a midwife to my dying.Any yet, you hover there, judging me,putting on airs, you supercilious whip-poor-will.You're an embarrassment to nightjars everywhere.Now do your fucking job and take me to hell ~which I guess has already begun,judging by your shitty escort service."

"Learning from Experience Learning from experience means, 'Boy, did I just fuck up!"

"Poetry as Conspiracy [10w] A poem is unspoken conspiracy between the reader and poet."

"An Enirely Different Matter [10W] Four states of matter:solid, liquid, gasand ffuzzy-wuzzy."

"Self-Help I asked the bookseller,'Do you have any self-help books for addiction?'He said,'If I tell you, I'd be enabling you."