The One Line Poem Game (1-50 Words) Showing 3,851-3,900 of 5,070

[Preston, Moderator]

Else apply to be a chicken plucker.

[Roger]

That was close! That was a near thing,

[Roger]

You nearly put the dong before the ding.

[Roger]

Come to think… it's some time since we heard from Rick.

[Preston, Moderator]

His visits here with poetry are periodic

[Preston, Moderator]

But his knowledge of martian craters is encyclopedic.

[Max]

What with his recent absence as of late,

[Preston, Moderator]

I wish he'd drop by—his rhymes are quite comedic.

[Max]

Something tells me this must be fate!

[Preston, Moderator]

It's possible he is caught up reading Dr. Strange.

[Roger]

I just realized (perhaps a bit too late)

[Roger]

Instead of couplets we're doing the ABAB range.

[Roger]

Never mind, variety is the spice of life

[Roger]

So they say… Perhaps I should try a wife?

[Preston, Moderator]

You'd have to marry a wife.

[Preston, Moderator]

unlike Oli who causes no such strife.

[Roger]

Ulp! You know, that is so true,

[Roger]

How very clever of you.

[Roger]

I'd really hate to sound like I was petty

[Roger]

But that way round there's at least no confetti.

[Preston, Moderator]

No confetti and no ring

[Preston, Moderator]

You haven't to one damn thing.

[Preston, Moderator]

Besides you can't be wed without me.

[Preston, Moderator]

because you're my only family.

[Roger]

Then we'll have to do it in Al-ban-nee.

[Roger]

Which won't be easy for the mo

[Roger]

Because no flights go to and fro

[Roger]

As a consequence of all that snow

[Roger]

That you didn't get

[Roger]

But plagues JFK yet.

[Preston, Moderator]

January is almost over,

[Preston, Moderator]

and outside I can see the clover.

[Preston, Moderator]

I sure hope no snow now doesn't mean,

[Preston, Moderator]

April will have more snow than we've ever seen.

[Preston, Moderator]

It's been known to happen and it's uncool,

[Preston, Moderator]

to have a snowman as an April Fool.

[Preston, Moderator]

Albany and its surrounding townsfolk,

[Preston, Moderator]

Don't want a winter that's a cruel joke.

[Roger]

It's even contrary to the weather rule.

[Roger]

But it's hard to promise the moon,

[Roger]

In Ludlow it can freeze even in June.

[Roger]

It happened once in nineteen-seventy-nine

[Roger]

When it hailed and froze every pipe in the line.

[Roger]

Then there were floods when every pipe burst,

[Preston, Moderator]

But that wasn't the worst,

[Preston, Moderator]

When the storm of June 2008 came around,

[Preston, Moderator]

Even the sheep on the high fields drowned.

[Preston, Moderator]

As houses flooded, there were a thousand unfortunates,

[Preston, Moderator]

When the River Corve rose 5 feet in 25 minutes.

[Preston, Moderator]

Then as hours elapsed,