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She returned his love; she did REQUITE
The feelings he shared and this despite
His oft bumbling ways
And awkward forays
Into the wrong places out of sight.
--- Daniel Ford

The Red-haired girl did never REQUITE
Charlie Brown's love, even despite
His frequent yearning.
His inside learning
Never got past shy and polite.
--- Daniel Ford

She gave it a rather sharp bite,
An aggression I had to requite.
So I bit her nipple
Which cause a ripple
And the start of our very first fight.
--- Norm Brust

There are harassed spouses who might
Think of ill-deeds born of spite.
And tend to ignore
A mate that might snore
Or flatulent foggins REQUITE.
--- Chris Papa

He thought his love she'd requite,
Pursued her with all of his might.
But he quickly found
He never gained ground
And sleeps all alone every night.
--- Chris Papa

Machines of RESISTENTIALISM
Have their own existentialism,
Which creates the furphy,
Guided by Murphy,
With penitential pragmatism.
--- Daniel Ford

RESISTENTIALISM's in bloom,
Right here in my computer room.
Where pesky PC
Will have sport with me,
As I kick it, then sputter and fume.
--- Chris Papa

RESISTENTIALISM's in every room,
From the toaster to the lowly broom.
Every appliance
Has joined the alliance
To bring about my forthcoming doom.
--- Norm Brust

Ralph was a RESOLUTE roue',
Persuing pert gals night and day.
While they sought to wed,
He just sought to bed;
And have them and then run away.
--- Chris Papa

Determined in manner RESOLUTE,
Conservatives believe absolute
And will never waiver,
Not even a quaver,
Despite how the facts grow revolute. (turn back)
--- Daniel Ford

'Round her neck, a jeweled pendant
Did shine with brilliance RESPLENDENT.
'Twas an added perk,
'Cause she did good work
With use of her soft parts dependent.
--- Chris Papa

RESPLENDENTLY clothed for appointment,
He fell, due to kneecap disjointment.
His final release,
Soaked in axle grease.
Another dead spy in the ointment.
--- Elois

A RESTAURATEUR, mad as hell,
Provoked crowds of natives as well
To Hun-like attack,
Because "Le Big Mac"
Was thought by some Frenchmen as "Swell!"
--- Chris Papa

One who restores is RESTAURATEUR,
Providing rest, food to voyageur.
In large and small rooms,
Some for brides and grooms,
Who were quite unaware of voyeur.
--- Daniel Ford

Said Jones, in the time of the Raj,
With local affairs a hodge-podge,
"That crowd isn't festive,
The natives are restive,
We'd better lay down a barrage."
--- Chris Papa

One more word with the proclivity
To change what its meaning could be:
To rest means to relax,
But contrary to facts,
Being restive's not restful you see.
--- Loren Fitzhugh P0510Q

We've been here a while and I've found
This theater has terrible sound.
But the film's suggestive
And I'm getting RESTIVE;
So why don't we just fool around.
--- Chris Papa

It's easier to RETRODICT
By using a simple rule strict:
All seeing eschew,
Save that in the rear view
Mirror, and never be tricked.
--- Chris Papa

Here's what I will predict:
Alaska's voters will retrodict;
Then they have sent vote
This fall, they'll have smote
The nepotistic Murkowski's edict.

(named his daughter to fill his Senate term)
--- Barb

Many cases of RETRODICTION
Turn out to be simply fiction.
"We knew it all along,"
Is a familiar song
And hindsight a common affliction.
--- Norm Brust

New edict the computer Czar made:
"No longer call a spade a spade.
We, in our smug school,
Find new terms for fool.
He's a just a wise man, RETROGRADE"
--- Chris Papa

In the early terracentric view,
Some heavenly planets backwards flew,
At various times,
In various climes,
Mercury was then RETROGRADE too.
--- Daniel Ford

The French word REVANCHE is real neat,
When vengeful Gauls savored it sweet.
Except history shows
When it came to blows,
They seemed to be best at retreat.
--- Chris Papa

Before King Henry crossed le Manche, (English Channel)
To pursue his plan of Revanche,
He made a tender
To the French to surrender,
Since for pillage his troops had carte blanche.
--- Norm Brust

Ere revenge could become planned REVANCHE,
Henry's troops must need their wounds to staunch.
Else those cavalier
French nobles might cheer
As yon Hank was set back on his haunch.
--- Daniel Ford

RIALTO, like the "Great White Way."
Where cultural arts are in play,
A market of sorts,
Displaying man's warts,
Whilst giving each writer his say.
--- Chris Papa

Theatre district, RIALTO,
In Calaveras Gold Alto
Was a Mark Twain haunt,
'Mid many a taunt
Toward bullfrog movement salto. (jumping)
--- Daniel Ford

My Dobies don't smile much at all.
They do when their pleasures are small.
Say, "Happy you sicced us.
We'll show it with rictus,
We're so pleased to bite at your call.
--- Chris Papa

Young Ted was on a cannibis high,
When through loutish RICTUS, a fly
Flew all the way in.
Said Ted with a grin,
"Here's a buzz, Dude, that you gotta try!"
--- Phil Kinay

Say the ladies to men, 'bout their RICTUS,
"We don't like the way you depict us.
We want you to know
We don't like to blow.
We'd rather prefer if you licked us."
--- Barrie Eksteen

The gaping grin that we call RICTUS,
Oft seen when skeletons depict us,
Is gratingly gruesome
When dating twosome
Just can't stop grinning like Invictus. (W E Henley poem)
--- Daniel Ford

Neptune, the god of the sea,
Was as cheerful as a god can be.
But he stopped being RIDENT
When he sat on his trident.
The result was a tsunami.
--- Norm Brust

She took the new car for a ride.
It was gleaming symbol of pride.
A quick on-the-fly dent
Demolished mood RIDENT.
Lady drivers she cannot abide.
--- Chris Papa

This is file jql

The laughing cheerful people rident
Do confer the annoying strident.
RIDENT, divisible,
Becomes risible,
If only, with smiling, subrident.
--- Daniel Ford

Poor Max has a mouth for a wife;
His marital woes, very RIFE.
If it wasn't "her way,"
There'd be Hell to pay;
No supper, no sex and much strife.
--- Chris Papa

RIGAMAROLE, I confess,
Like dealing with the IRS,
Boring in the main,
Just one more big pain,
A kind of etcetera mess.
--- Chris Papa

Ragman, not limericks better,
Brought RIGAMOAROLE with lyric letter.
Our stuff's not confusing
Just rather amusing
And often a smutty style-setter.
--- Chris Papa

In college beds, RIGAMAROLE
Had different meaning, on the whole;
The humor quite fleeting,
In practice short-sheeting,
Which Sophomores thought quite droll.
--- Daniel Ford

The Rageman's roll became RIGAMAROLE,
For confused lyrics enigma soul.
But highly complex
Dances to find sex,
Leave Americans with stigma whole.
--- Daniel Ford

To live a life RIPARIAN,
It helps to be an Aquarian.
You can surely bet
You're going to get wet
While fishin' or may be just ferryin'.
--- Norm Brust

At water's edge, lives RIPARIAN
Do have risks not so agrarian.
The floods and storms
That are coastal norms,
Bring damage egalitarian.
--- Daniel Ford

With RIPARIAN life, one relaxes,
With prise of water, one waxes.
But this marine view
Is only to few,
Ready to pay one's steep taxes.
--- Chris Papa

There once was a foolish young chap,
Who bedded his girl on RIPRAP.
It made the ride bumpy,
And her very grumpy,
So she paid him back with the "clap".
--- Chris Papa

Rock quarries producing RIPRAP
Are great for stripping sliding slip strap,
From blondes who are bolder,
But when you grow older,
The girdle on Myrtle's a trip trap.
--- Daniel Ford

Provoking laughter, it's RISIBLE,
But elements are not divisible.
The whole of the show
Does make laughter flow,
While director stays invisible.
--- Daniel Ford

When Life deals its slings and hard hits,
And all is dull, drear, "like the pits",
Bring on vista sunny,
If you've got the money,
Enjoy, sybarize, al la RITZ!
--- Chris Papa

Elegant, fancy, and RITZY,
May sometimes approach the glitzy,
As tersichorean,
Toreadorean,
Sybaritic Gaynor Mitzi.
--- Daniel Ford

Politico's friends are ROCK-RIBBED,
Stand by when their principal's fibbed,
And swear to his lies,
Are never surprised,
That "principles" are merely ad libbed.
--- Chris Papa

ROCK-RIBBED were the walls of the fjord;
Safety he couldn't afford.
He had a spasm
While in the chasm;
The waters of fjord he explored.
--- Darryl

ROCOCO means fanciful shell,
In decorative art really swell.
All light, sweet, and gooey,
Time of 15th Louis,
As French empire went straight to hell.
--- Chris Papa

Decorative excell, ROCOCO,
Describes artist's bent somwhat loco,
With swirls and plaster.
No sipping faster,
With ROCOCO cup for your cocoa.
--- Daniel Ford

RODOMONT is a noisy wind-bag,
Call him braggart, another tag.
It's usually a male,
Who tells a long tale,
Which, far from amusing is drag.

(blustereing boaster, braggart)
--- Chris Papa

RODOMONT, like boastful King Moor,
Is often vainglorious boor,
Whose strutting bluster
Just won't pass muster,
And stinks like some big bear's spoor.

(blustering boaster, braggart)
--- Daniel Ford

RODOMONTADE, boasting and bragging,
Needed when attendance is flagging,
Reaches tedium
In each medium,
In these days of constant tonggue wagging.
--- Daniel Ford

Slick Willy's ROMAN A CLEF
All self-writ, if he had his way,
Would most surely paint
Him as tortured saint,
Who helped kneeling intern to pray.
--- Chris Papa

The truth revealing ROMAN A CLEF
May be wishful thoughts by old man at play.
Trouble lies therein,
For 'mid the swearin',
Too often we see feet of clay.
--- Daniel Ford

Disguised events in ROMAN A CLEF,
Do lightly conceal folks and portray
In fictional scenes
Just who's in whose jeans,
Revealing to all their feet of clay.
--- Daniel Ford

I know for a fact, history will pay
If you write a good ROMAN A CLEF!
Take a historic look,
Michell's civil war book
Is still touted and loved to this day!
--- Barb

ROMAN FLEUVE, generational tale,
Like ocean, takes long time to sail,
Form saga-Forsythes,
To "Slick Willy" bites,
Usual cad, an overseexed male.
--- Chris Papa

ROMAN FLEUVE of Anais Nin,
Her sexual exploits within,
Became a thriller
With Henry Miller
As purvyor of joyful sin.
--- Daniel Ford

Televised testimonials trigger
Visions of Viagra vigor.
Don't blow a gasket
And end up in a casket,
Trying to recreate ROSEATE rigor.
--- Phil Kinay

The maid had a ROSEATE view
Of what her young fellow would do.
Except when day came
That they would share name,
He vanished completely, sans clue.
--- Chris Papa

As Rosie ate Phillip, he thought,
"This ROSEATE filly I've caught
Is so good that I'll
Not trust her denial,
That she has been more than self-taught."
--- Nick

Rosetta Stone, so hard to translate,
And writing on it wasn't so great.
Took many a hard knock
To write on that rock.
Too bad they didn't use slate.
--- Barb

Most pharmacists surely would choose
ROSETTA STONE, which they could use
To help understand
What's writ in crabbed hand,
From M.D.s with the scribbling blues.
--- Chris Papa

I won't accept this, never will,
I knew as a noun once, and still
In my mind you see
A ROTISSERIE,
As spit over a hot barbie grill.
--- Chris Papa


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