New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes

New Classic Poems
Just For Fun
Patients from the globe around
Flocked to touch his very gown.
A noble Irish Lord, begorra!
Sought his cure for Gloccamora.
You think this tale is corny, huh
He’s now in California
Removing nasty cataracts
From moguls who drive Cadillacs.
All Hollywood knows who to call
When they start bumping into walls,
And pop stars strive with earnest hearts
To reach the bottom of his charts.
He’ll fix a starlet’s poor refraction
So she can act when she hears, “Action!”
Celebrities’ myopia
Has financed John’s Utopia.
Reflect, then, e’er ye dare deride
A bookish nerd who takes in stride
Short-sighted peers who laugh and scoff
Because the boy will not slack off.
Who knows what someday he may do
He might just operate on you!
To Mr. Blank, Poet of Pessimism
Wiley Clements
Though a poem may be satirical,
unlike Shelley's light and lyrical
lark that lifts the sunken spirit
up to heaven's gate or near it,
better a bit of bitter funning
than a dreary dirge devoid of cunning.
So if you must indulge this habit,
making verse the way a rabbit
fills a warren full of bunny,
try, at least, to make it funny.
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