If you ever need a Rhyme for - Rhyme -
try - Frost, or Hoar Frost's synonym - Rime!

As we amble through Life,
making the Climb -
we must suffer Politics -
a miserable Crime!

DUH ?

© - Tom Hyland - 03-02-10


What does it Profit a Prophet if -
He loses the Sole of his Soul in the Process?

If a Pop-Fly Foul - hits a Flying Fowl -
In Mid-Air and Drops Within the Baseline - is it Fair?

If the Fare at a Fair is limited to -
Pop-Corn and Peanuts - do the Elephants Share?

If each Piece is a token of Peace -
And each Elephant Ate Eight - does anyone Care?

If All the Oceans are called the - ‘Seven Seas’ -
Why does Lack of Lubrication cause Gears to Seize?

A Six-line Stanza of Poetry is a - ‘Sixain’ -
But - a ‘Sixte’ is the Sixth Defensive Position in Fencing!

Two Anagrams - Exist and Exits - come from Sixte -
But, after Fifty-Nine - you’re Sixty!

If a ‘Fifth’ of Whiskey is One-Fifth of a Gallon -
Why is ‘Fifty-Fifty’ an Even Split?

And a ‘Fifth Column’ is a Negative, Subversive Group -
And a ‘Fifth Wheel’ is an Unwanted, Superfluous person -

Then - How come a ‘Fifth Generation’ Computer Level -
Is a Positive. Highly Advanced Technology?

If the ‘Fourth Estate’ is Journalists, the Press, the Media -
How come the ‘Fourth World’ is Poorer than the ‘Third World’?

If a Criminal is taken from his Quarters - then ‘Drawn and Quartered’ -
How come Two Halves contain Four Quarters?

If the ‘Third Estate’ is the Lowest Class, or Commons -
Why is a ‘Third Eyelid’ a Nictitating Membrane, or a Haw?

If a Planar is a Flat, Two-Dimensional Geometric Plane -
Then - How could a Planar be Plainer?

If you Pare A Pear, then Quarter it -
Is the result a - Pair of Pairs?

If a ‘Twofer’ is Two items for the price of One -
Would you give one - To - another person Too?

If a Final Score is - One-One -
Then it is Tied - so - Nobody Won!


And Thus, my Friends, my -
‘Play on Words’ is Done!


© - TKH.