Tip for travelers
Things I use
in a glass country:
lips for business
and rice for a bed.
Cheerful poems
Cheerful poems — a collection of the best works on PoemShip.
Armchair activist
I practice objection,
give ear
to an ear
to the war—
a din after dinner.
I put things in order,
content
to practice.
Mind the gap
My Zen is
about difference:
a way to make
it up.
I have hopes
to burn. I have
seen the Queen
of Bohemia.
Inspirational poster
the office full of clerks
and no quiet
I gaze on swans
Proverbial (9)
I tell my mind
to the barber,
put things in order
to go away.
Burden
In the morning at my lute
the carrier will carry to the carrier
oranges and two barrels of sun
sake and sack, lamb and veal
a pocket to carry in his pocket
after supper at my flute
Funeral instructions
Call up a merry rump
to carry to the grave.
Dine below the buttery
church of money.
Dine at a secluded grave
on the horse of the house.
Invitation to the mouth
To dinner, my mouth,
to dinner I sell my mouth
(and a little supper),
to dinner, come,
live for the honor
of the open mouth!
Alter ego
In the morning
he shouted at the fields
(the crooked fellow)
walked up and down
(the churchyard cock)
broke Barebone’s windows
and went home
(my dog-brother)
To-do list
Practice walking; begin in the yard.
Afterwards, talk to a stone.
Do nothing.
Let a black dog into the kitchen
and eat a great head,
too much to boil.
Nursery rhyme
I went to my office, I went to the palace—
a swan to the swan.
I brought a bull to the chamber
and rattled the crown.
Downer
The old man brought porridge and nothing else.
The swan, in little hopes about down,
got £60 for her neck and lodgings in the field
and would not give bedding like a fool.
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