The Oxymoronist
The oxymoronist
With a frown
Is very shallow
Deep down
Unique Perspective
I met an endoscopist
And now I’m really primed
Cuz she told me she would
Look me up sometime
An Astronomer’s Tale
This is a very short
Tale to tell
About an astronomer
People know well
Who, looking upwards
At the sky
Fell into
A well nearby
He splashed about
And began to shout
For someone please
To help him out
At last, a person
Heard his cry
And helped this very
Clumsy guy
And so it was
He didn’t drown
Now townsfolk speak
Of him in town
How looking skyward
An astronomer found
The importance of
Occasionally looking down
Limerick
A gossip columnist longs
For dirt to sing its sad songs
She says what she does
Is OK because
She’s writing another one’s wrongs
Our Flat Earth
I walked across
The Earth so flat
And wondered where
The edge was at
I crossed a lot
Of land uncharted
Then ended right back
Where I started
Librated
Her obsession with astrology
Was not so smart
In fact I think I’d say
It Taurus apart
In Behind
Two men were running near a car
Each one of them looked frosted
The one in front was getting tired
The one behind, exhausted
Kevin Ahern is an Oregon State University professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In his retirement, he writes verses.
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