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When it comes to choosing clothing, Nudists will stop at nothing. | | Short Stories from Citizen Poet The current story, He's falling in love but is it with a woman--or a man? Josie, Parts I-IV Part V, In process Previous stories -- Ringing Out Twice upon a Murder A Letter from Sissy A Cherokee Dying | | |
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I Am a Poem, Bisensual I Am a Poem, Bisensual is the poem that reads you as you read it. USE CAUTION. This is an experimental, interactive poem -- a living, sentient being, both bisensual and bisexual.As you read this poem, it will make love to you. Born This Way
The Prophets The Washington Monument cracked apart. God , said Robinson, cracked the plot. Bachman said it was God who wrought The death and pain that Irene brought. An earthquake and a hurricane Messages that they both proclaimed Came from a God they claimed distraught Upset because Liberals fought The good Conservatives thought hot. Which proves prophets need not be smart.
A love story: Josie, Parts I - IV This is an unusual love story. A young man finds himself falling in love, but he has no idea whether the object of his affectiuon is a man or a woman--and he soon discovers that no one will tell him the truth. Part V In process
A spring garden I most desired, But for naught; all I grew was tired. twittergrams | An Unfinished PunDitty -- Or, The Trouble with Only Having 140 Characters on Twitter . . . Bachmann has fit, Perry won't quit / Romney's still Mitt, Newt's a misfit / Cain's half a wit, Huntsman vote split / Santorum and Paul are full of Twitted 11/15/2011
wrote: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, March 25, 2010, on MSNBC: "Sarah Palin has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district and when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there are consequences to that action." http://bit.ly/f3ZXws
NickKristofwroteI tried to interview a young woman who was surrounded and bullied by Mubarak's thugs. She stood her ground.heroically To which I replied . . . @NickKristof A similar tale, I recall / From those supporters of Rand Paul. misspadalicious wroteI kinda love being Pisces, we all look at least 10 years younger than we actually are . . . | To which I replied . . . @misspadalicious It's true we all look younger when / We'll never look this young again. |
Previous twittergrams: @latimes wrote The absolutely best Thanksgiving turkey recipe. Ever. http://lat.ms/bkbOON | To which I replied . . . @latimes About your turkey recipe / Cooking this dish isn't easy / The turkeys are all in D.C. To which @latimes replied . . . @DanSpeers how quickly you forget. Alaska has a supply of turkeys as Sarah Palin showed us two years ago To which I replied . . . @latimes I thought I saw Sarah Palin / All the turkeys she was killing. / Did some survive, my lying eyes? |
To which I replied . . . @SgBz wroteThe best way to defeat the Republican Propaganda Machine is through humor - jokes have a way of circling the globe #p2 #p21 #pX @SgBz Some use jokes, I use poetry / Sarcastic poems have potency. /A poem a day has probity /And destroys idiocy.
@Uncucumbered wrote''I haven't seen a half-monkey, half-person yet.''—Glenn Beck, calling evolution ''ridiculous'' #P2 To which I replied . . . @Uncucumbered Glen Beck's half-man-ape comes clearer / When Beck peers into a mirrow.
Margoandhow wrote -John McCain has flipped his lid. His remarks about Boxer were almost obscene, considering they are fellow Senators. He will regret this. To which I replied . . . @Margoandhow McCain owes Boxer an apology / Trouble is, he can't remember who is she. To which Margoandhowreplied @DanSpeers I'm not sure he remembers who HE is
Zillapreneur wrote - The key I have found to loosing weight is not to loose your mind in the process.-Mr.Roger. To which I replied . . . @Zillapreneur My Don't Diet: / Don't buy it / Don't fry it / Don't try it.
DCdebbie wrote -The summer is almost over, I need a long weekend of sin, sand and water. #tanning To which I replied . . . @DCdebbie I can't help with sand or tanning / But I've had practice with sinning.
tiffany_or_die wrote - I can't help but wonder if anyone would miss me if I just suddenly disappeared. #depressedtweet To which I replied . . . @tiffany_or_die Who misses she who disapears? / It will be the loan officer / When your car loan is in arrears.
JimGrygar wrote - I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but theyve always worked for me. To which I replied . . . @JimGrygarSome who are self-medicated / Soon become self-deadicated.
DCdebbie wrote - I'm gay on weekends and holidays. To which I replied . . . @DCdebbie When you're not gay, ask yourself why / You think you're not just getting bi?
A recent personal tweet: When approaching sex, don't go slow / It's how you come, not how you go. | |
Fearing that he might be gay, Mitt Tried hairdressing to belay it.
The past spent, the future priceless, Today's best buy is happiness. Wine decreases inhibitions And increases exhibitions. You can't be down on What you're not up on. Death just opens the door To what we were before. Wisdom in action Gives knowledge traction. We count our foes' faults with delight, While keeping our own out of sight. Occupy here, occupy there, Is now, occupi everywhere.
Flirting excites the eyes, French perfume the nose. A vote for sex I think is wise If we vote ayes, ignore the no's.
Flirting excites the eyes, Told by those with poor memory. You won't harm your reputation, If you don't supply the weapon. Morals may work, but a witness, Helps resist temptation the best. My doctor has a manner nice, Always dispensing fee advice. All a good lie needs for impact, Is proper selection of fact. A rising tide will raise all boats, As well as whatever else floats. Love is great when it partners hearts, But great sex partners other parts. I think it's time we admitted, Life is sexually transmitted. Though we know what clothes are for, As nudists, we like nothing more. Some hide behind inferences, Nudists air their differences. An epitaph, as we all know: Lies above for what lies below. A bathing beauty on the shore, Is a sight worth wading for. No need to quarrel, my wife avers, If she goes her way, and I, hers. Prejudice can't see what is what, Since it's blinded by what is not. The Horn of Plenty keeps you fit, But not if you keep blowing it. And, on a serious note, B sharp, he wrote. Nudists never straddle a fence, It tends to split the difference. My rheumatism I endure; It's my built-in weather bureau. If you drive like Hell, don't worry, You're getting there in a hurry. On my diet, I ate and weighted; Now my waist's delapidated. A good salesman can be adept, At really talking you to debt. What hypocrits appreciate Are those values they imitate. Vokda kills germs lickedy split, If you can get germs to drink it. No creed or belief is so fool proof It can't be tested by the truth. If you find your life has been tense Try present instead of past tense. Tho' conscience is a useful guide, Arthiritis is on my side. I give the present my deference, As it's a future reference. You can drink like a fish and thrive, But the fish will swim home, not drive. At my age, flirting helps restore, What it was I was flirting for.
My alarm clock I cannot keep, --Always goes off when I'm asleep. Counting one's sins is troubling; Makes me think I'm missing something. | | Visit Dan at Citizen Poet every day for a new and witty political PunDitty Every time I hear attitude I discover ingratitude. | | Some say meals should be well thought out, My wife relies on well thawed out. | Previous PunDittys Pre-school plans and assault weapons Are the new GOP demons. Carl Rove wants to change his party But deals with nuts hale and hearty Served with fruits at a tea party. | | Previous Epigrams If you agree with me, you'll find, I have once again changed my mind So what you liked is now behind. People who say what they think ought To provide proof of what they thought. | Read More of These in the PunDitty Vault | | Read More of These in Recent Epigrams |
Coming soon: An American Treasure: A half-century of puns, satire, and political poems by Dan Speers
A Chronical of the 2012 Primary Season 
In this last primary season, Puns, poems and irony Traced GOP hyprocrisy, But while t'was rhyme, t'was no reason.
"A Warning to Boys Who Climb Trees" -- A birthday poem for a 12-year-old boy.
Favorite Poems Does Anyone Know I'm Here? So Very Cold Outside What Would He Do? A Taste of Dirt The Last Cigarette
Parrhesia: The Poetry Blog Poems and Thoughts, and Observations . . . Parrhesia means to speak candidly about literally everything, Embedded in the US Constitution,parrhesia was also a fundamental element of classical Athenian democracy, including the right to question, criticize, or satirize, as well as the right to ridicule that Aristophanes used so freely in his plays. It first appears in Euripides 'Hippolytus (line 422; performed in 428 B.C.) and Ion (lines 672, 675; of uncertain date). Today, Americans expect and demand the truth not only in courts, political arenas, and assemblies, but in business, private discourse, and even personal relationships. Parrhesia. I see what I see, I write what I feel, I paint with words, the world.
Dead Certain An indictment of George W. Bush A poem from the heart; Marking the end of Iraq War. George W. Bush has kept one promise he made as President--his pledge to go on the lecture circuit once his terms ended in order to "replenish" the family coffers. Underpinning this pledge was his carefully cultivated image of a warrior President--an image in fact based upon a lie, the war in Iraq, a war based on distortions of the truth, suggestions of impending doom from mushroom clouds, and the non-existtent Weapons of Mass Destruction.  Given this pledge that was revealed in the book, Dead Certain, and his messianic belief that he was getting his war advice from God with the hundreds of war dead filling those empty coffins on a midnight tarmac in what I feel was an illegal and immoral war, I felt both sorrow and disgust. I expressed my feeling a poem I wrote at the time. It's called Dead Certain
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You've heard him cry, how he exhorts, It comes from where he pulls reports. His magic underwear distorts Every word Glen Beck reports.
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The latest FOX News statistic: Twelve out of ten Liberal picks Will turn nation Communistic. Other four are Gay sadistic. After FOX News' Fuzzy Math FOX lies are well documented What ails FOX is Ailes demented. --Sharpened Speers Fueled by FOX - Fooled by FOX
Conspiring John - Sen. John Ensign carried on an affair with a staffer who was married to another staffer, and who was the mother of another staffer, and attempted to cover up his daliance by having his supporters hire the cuckold. I'm a Hamptons' fan, the senator said, Some work on my staff, and some I embed.
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The Further Adventures of the Wasilla Hillbillies Sarah laid bare . . . Todd barely keeps his ego fed . . . Levi can't keep his Levis on . . . Facebook face off . . . Up from the town came a bubbling crude Hillbillies, that is.
Sarah Palin makes John McCain boner, Says she'll campaign . . . in North and South Arizona.
 Zany Liz Cheney
Launches "Keep America Safe" Fighting Mad - Defends Dad Weighing Run for President Loopy Liz and old Dithering Dick. One a pinhead, the other a prick. Cheney says torture probe unfair, Perhaps we stick the probe elsewhere. ~~~~~ Meghan McCain Straight-Talking Dad Has Out-Spoken Daughter Calls Joe-the-Plumber a DumbAss Taunts Malkin, Coulter and Ingraham
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In Remembrance . . . Requiem for a Star In nature's perfect universe Parallel lines remain discrete, Yet Michael Jackson found the verse Where black and white could long last meet. |
"Requiem for a Star" published 2009 at MJFC, Michael Jackson Fan Club, www.mjfanclub.net Copyright 2009 by Dan Speers
Wielding burrs and barbs in verse CitizenPoet comments in ways diverse using a unique form of poetic justice to lampoon and skewer the indignities of human foilbles and stupidities. | | Fun Sites I Really Like Poetry, Short Stories and More The Jittery Goat ~ ~ ~ Mario Piperni: Political Issues & Not ~ ~ ~ The Blogdog ~ ~ ~ Daniel Kurtzman's Political Humor ~ ~ ~ Robert Neff A story in art and verse Dalmation Press
Poetry Types - Old Versus New At ShadowPoetry I have written about traditional poetic forms well-known and obscure, as well as an extensive list of invented Poetry Types, an activity going back centuries and still practiced by modern-day poets. I included my own invented poetry type, the Apigram.
Neil Diamond almost didn't make it to his Fourth of July concert with the Boston Pops. This is the story of the singer's midnight flight and fight to get to a Boston site late at night. Twit If by Land, Tweet If by Sea
The Spiral Staircase ~ ~ ~ Begin Again the Same Again ~ ~ ~ A new federal tax imposed April 1, 2009 dramatically increased the price of cigarettes and reminded me of my own battles with tobacco before I was able to break the habit a number of years ago. This poem is my story: The Last Cigarette ~ ~ ~ April 1: Budget, Smudgit, Fudgit April Fool's Day Have They No Cents? ~ ~ ~ April 7, 2009 Obama at the Front |
Tweety Observations: If short bits give you the jitters / Then you best avoid the twitters. And so I wrote: Tweets On Book Burning Burning holy books is profane / Especially done in God's name. Thank God religious hysterics / Produce religious heretics. Buring the Koran: Evolution favors no favorites / It could be evolving more idiots. Burning the Koran: One can believe in God in vain / By keep on killing in his name. Buring the Koran: Religious values are celebrated / By zealots united in common hatred. Any fool can claim to be a pastor / Even Rev. Jones, a national disaster. Rev. Jones doing Christians proud / Now spewing hate and lies out loud.
To which I replied: wrote RT @: What's your favorite CAT food and why? < Depends on the wine I'm having. To which I replied . . . @ A Tiger for dinner would never do / That 500-pound pussy would eat you.
DCdebbie wrote Two exboyfriends texted me after DC earthquake, asking who I was with and what I was doing. To which I replied . . . @DCdebbieI think our mates already knew / We still sure can make the earth move.
GPappalardowrote Every morning on the farm starts with a cock. A-doodle-doo. To which I replied . . . @GPappalardoWhen on the farm the dawn doth burst / The cock does the hardest thing first.
wrote RT @: "The love we give away is the only love we keep." - Elbert Hubbard To which I replied . . . @ @When they say love is blind, I think / Explains whom I bed when I drink.
rcaplice wrote: @dannyson1 Sign me up! I'm ready for Antarctica right now. This heat is awful To which I replied . . . @rcaplice Live north of Boston, near Hampshire / To cool off, had to build a fire. .
inaimless wrote Palin writes down cost of extending bush’s tax cuts on her hand, still gets it wrong: http://bit.ly/9ObaZc #lol #p2 #tcot To which I replied . . . @inaimless Most people wash up when they stand / Palin reads what's left on her hand.
agville wrote Springfield City Council moves forward on urban-chicken farming http://bit.ly/aB6eqL To which I replied . . . @So Springfield now debates a lot / Where lots of chicks get lots of cock?
Kellbo0 wrote Funniest thing from Wife Swap previews, the woman sees the goat and goes "A freakin SHEEP?" Where do they get these people? #p21. To which I replied . . . @My love thinks swapping is a bore / Whatever would she swap me for?
tonystevens4 wrote - A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Hubbard #quote rt @LoriMoreno To which I replied . . . @tonystevens4 A friend is one with whom you share / Quirks about which they don't care.
mommadonawrote -The biggest threat to religion, politicians and business is a woman on the pill. To which I replied . . . @mommadona Not just a woman on the pill with choice / But degreed, salaried, and her own strong voice.
Bobzeno wrote -Gore Vidal: "Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age." To which I replied . . . @Bobzeno Are you sure he mentioned, Litigation? / I could have sworn he said, Lubrication.
Learninlife wrote - @profblmkelley @ChrisMacDen strange how religion can help the survival of oppression and justify the oppressor To which I replied . . . @Learninlife Good ideas are held captive / Behind religious invective.
calgrasley wrote - Tired of office politics? Work at home where you can be the boss. http://dld.bz/b5VM To which I replied . . . @calgrasleyPlus, working at home leaves us free / To work all day quite nakedly.
MeredithBell wrote - "Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are." - Jose Ortega y Gasset To which I replied . . . @MeredithMBell You tell me what you think of someone else / And I'll tell you what you think of yourself.
NakedAxiom wroteGlenn Beck livid after spot-on Daily Show mockery; wants a restraining order on Jon Stewart. http://bit.ly/9Ni97t ROFL!!! What a moron! To which I replied . . . @NakedAxiom Magic underwear distorts / All the words Glen Beck reports.
VarukawroteI have to go to the grocery store, gonna shove a cucumber down my pants and see if anyone wants to do an "Enhanced" patdown on me. To which I replied . . . @Varuka It depends, you must remember / On the size of the cucumber.
DC JeffersonObama wroteGlaxo drops version of resveratrol "red wine" drug http://tiny.cc/8plqrTo which I replied . . . @JeffersonObama A pill is easy and it's fine / But I would rather drink the wine.
DC Debbie wrote Looks like "The Hammer" got nailed! | To which I replied . . . @DCdebbie When Tom DeLay is really jailed / That's when "The Hammer" does get nailed. |
mommadona wrote WHY is #Texas keeping U.S. from honoring national treaties? I think it's time for them to LEAVE #US ~ #OutOutDamnedSpot#gop#scum To which I replied . . . @mommadona I lived in Texas for a time / Turned out it was 1799.
Kellbo0 wrote - RT @PaulaInTulsaOK: After I got sexed in, I decided I dnt wnt 2 B in a club that wld allow me as a member. But the sex thing was fun. To which I replied . . . @KellboO One sex club visit is for fun / But going twice is perversion.
janinewallace wrote - Glenn Beck – A Legend In His Own Mind via @
To which I replied . . . @janinewallace Glen Beck's no legend in his mind / 'Cause his mind is really behind.
janinewallace wrote - riddles are fun but not as much fun as puns. To which I replied . . . @janinewallace My puns like cream to the top rise / And though I try to always surpirse / Nothing cheesy gets pasteurize
MWM4444wrote: In 97% of bird species, the male does not have a penis.To which I replied . . . @MWM4444 Bird dickies are rare, so says you / But I have seen a cockatoo. | ...ok, Tweeters, enough with the cock and hen jokes... |
Fearing that he might be gay, Mitt Tried hairdressing to belay it.
Margonand how wrote - what if you're having sex w/ your partner & you find yourself thinking of yourself? Is that cheating 2? To which I replied . . . @Margoandhow Your love partner should understand / Sex sometimes needs a helping hand.
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I hate to say I told you so What they show they show: X-Scanners  Airport scanners show all just fine, Give new meaning to "butt in line." You may as well grin and bare it, Your X-scan is going to share it. Male or female, X-scans will out Even those with the slightest doubt.
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Everybody Loves Babies
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Does war make you mad when the mad Make war?
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Does Anyone Know I'm Here? First Place World Wide Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest ~ ~ ~ So Very Cold Outside Finalist Margie, The American Journal of Poetry, vol. 5
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*Note on Pun-Ditty: Conspiring John - Sen. John Ensign carried on an affair with a staffer who was married to another staffer, who was the mother of another staffer, and attempted to cover up his daliance by having his supporters hire the cuckold and his parents pay a bribe to the husband, Mr. Hampton. Getting ahead is easy done, Providing you can start with one. Proper use of ability Requires responsibility. What one sees differs man to man. Some see the dancer, some the fan. What's called the pinnacle of fame Might "the height of folly" be named. We all know that reality Is only what we think we see. Boston tunnels were flooded out, But, luckily, I brake for trout. Wine decreases inhibitions And increases exhibitions. When politicians speak their mind We usually find someone's behind. The choice is, a patient while you drive Or hospital patient, if you survive. Some think this safety plea well said: School bus students are best belted. "For example" is never proof, Nor sincerity ever truth. The old days weren't better back when, It's just that I was younger then. They say that time will heal all wounds, Which explains doctor's waiting rooms. We're all born ignorant, it's true; It's stupidity we accrue. On clothing, nudists have no doubt, There's nothing to complain about. Solemnity is not the key, To a rumor's veracity. Raising the voice Lowers the choice. The prime of life is not well timed, It takes me longer to get primed. Large egos I find Start with a small mind. Sex is always our first choice, What changes are the girls and boys. Mediocrity meets the test, Of always being at its best. Stopping at railroad crossings is clever; You can stop a minute -- or forever. Some say nudist clothes have little in store But the truth is, nothing pleases us more. The more crimes a state legislates, The more criminals it creates. Mistakes make all the difference When they're grounds for experience. Love and chess are games related, One false move and then you're mated. Protons, electrons and neutrons Make humans. And, yes, some morons. My New Year's resolutions failed again, Since I am not t healthy, wealthy or thin. Some things are new under the sun; Tomorrow has not yet begun. Can't be progress in medicine; I feel worse today than back when. | |
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