creative writing

Country Bumpkin

/ Karina Pinella / 7 Comments

duncan

My name is Duncan,
A close cousin to the pumpkin.
Let me be your jack-o-lantern
I promise I can frighten.

BOO
How’d I do?
Did I scare you?

Watch what you say
For I’ll make you pay
By showing up one day,
To take you away . . .

Happy Halloween!

Mummy Dearest

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grave robber

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Spare your staff,
Hold your curses,
Let me take half
Of your silken purses.

I’m just a lowly citizen
With mouths to feed
By the dozen;
My reason is not greed.

Allow me to go free
Leave you to your rest
All I ask you to agree
Is to let go of that treasure chest.

New World Disorder

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The tall ships sailed
Outward bound
Fated to find a new world
To be conquered

Land ho!
Much to see, o!

Round up the bands
Of natives and their lands
Create new brands
Under the explorer’s commands

‘Tis a new world order
With a rebound border

Survival of the fittest
Along with a long list
Of those willing to enlist
To put up their figurative fist.

So Quote Me . . .

/ Karina Pinella / 7 Comments

A belated THANK YOU to Thumbup for nominating me months ago to participate in the 3-Day Quote Challenge a Day. To be more specific, it was a couple of weeks after the 4th of July (so I’m not that late).  With Halloween-tinged trickery, I deliberately applied malapropism to three well-known sayings:

“When the groin gets tough, apply lotion to it.”
— Mr. Magoo (a cartoon character who has extreme myopia)
mr-magoo
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“Keep your hands close and your enemas closer.”
— Book of Toilet Dilemmas (a rear book)
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“Two bongs won’t win the fight.”
— Chee [a Cheech-wannabee]

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Hurricane

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disaster

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El Niño
Gone loco,
Upset La Niña,
So no buena.

Category four
A lethal score,
Mother Nature,
Such a player.

Making waves
Like mad raves.
That’s her way,
We get no say.