Beryl Dov

"Let Others Speak [10w] When others speak of your virtues they grow tenfold."

"Iowa Haiku "We're not really dull,we are just misunderstood.Weed helps dull the pain."

"Keep Your Day Job Bitch [10w] + {Couplet} If you've guessed that I'm blessed,augury ain't your strawberry."

"Travel [10w] The difference between a traveler and vacationer is one arrives."

"Wishing Wells [10w] Wishes fall to the bottom of wells;only faith floats."

"Love Scars Love leaves more scars than a ten car pile-up ~and nobody's got insurance."

"Love Fades [10w] Like our love,Chinese painters show distance in faded grays."

"Metamorphosis [10w] Change. Become the butterfly.Don't stay a caterpillar with wings."

"Wisconsin State Motto Forward.Leading the nation in drunk driving and Cheesehead hats."

"The Machismo Motto [10w] "When we are not hard as nails we get screwed."

"Note to Self: Patent #10w Diving Mask for fish filled with water when oceans disappear."

"Somalia Haiku For a Somalian, heaven's drawing water from a well in an earthen pot."

"Evolution of Love [10w] Love evolved from when one monkey handed another a blossom."

"Love Fades [10w] Like our love,Chinese painters show distance in faded grays."

"I [10w] 'I' is a wellspring in the desertoverflowing with life."

"Becoming [10w] We're a becoming whose final shape is unknown to all."

"How to Get Girls into Bed When I take a new girl out on a dateI tell them I slipped poison into their wineand the antidote is on my penis."

"Lies vs. Truth [10w] I can only speak truth if I lie to myself."

"Figure, Woman, Wife I study the sleeping figure,Stare at her sated curl of lip;Her lids sealed in dreams so pureMy love's secured from tip to tip.I study the sleeping womanHer forehead faint with sweatHer eyes wildly remmingOf adulterous sex, I bet.I study the sleeping wife,Her mouth faintly drawing breath;Her throat pouring pools of blood ~How I loved this woman to death."

"Poets and their Thin Skins Every poet is thin-skinned when it comes to criticism ~without ithow could he ever possess the astute sensitivity about lifeto even write poetry?"