Daiku: March 2017

30.3.17

White Man's Burden

Carruthers
Got heartily sick of of those brothers
Murmuring "too damned quiet, what?"
Before it all got way too hot.

credit: Paramount

Or perhaps

Carruthers
Got thoroughly sick of those others
Who "it's too damned quiet" would confess
Just as the natives grew restless.

credit: Paramoun

Or might you prefer

Carruthers
Was decidely sick of those mothers
And the occasional chinless toff
Mouthing "too damned quiet" before it all kicked off.

credit: Rank

29.3.17

Searching the wardrobe
What to wear when brexiting?
Article Fifty?

or, perhaps,

Queen Theresa the First,
For unconstrained power had a thirst.
One Union she called her "Precious";
Of t'other she refused to make a fuss.

or, mayhap,

Pride unwarranted
Sticking to a timetable
To shoot your own foot

or, indeed,

Her Mayesty
What sayest thee?
When the Madness of Queen Theresa
Infects the average geezer.

23.3.17

Mare Mia

The Man In The Moon
Would like to spoon
With the crescent Venus
When he's waxing gibbous.

Or do you prefer

The Man In The Moon
Thinks fair Venus will swoon
When she sees him gibbous
and so very libidinous.

20.3.17

They Asked "How High?"

Stupid commas be
Greengrocer's Apostrophes
When told 'jump this high'

18.3.17

From The Message Bored's

Hayley_321
Not being funny, hun
But you're anchevie's, nearnazi's and pedofile's
Leave me reefed in smile's

credit: David Richard Gilbertson

17.3.17

Hawaiian Metaphor

Ranged around table
Plate tectonics' mobile feast
Island chain of bras

9.3.17

Contextual Harassment

When Truth's a Stranger
Some Xenophobes will hate her
And grope Myths instead.

8.3.17

Fulminate on Mercury

H.G.Wells
Was sure Hg smells
And his Martians' heat-rays, er,
Foreshadowed the phaser.

credit: National Portrait Gallery

or do you prefer

H.G.Wells
Wrote of heat-rays not spells.
Though a badly calibrated Time Machine meant
He lived in but never played Mornington Crescent.