Today's Little Ditty

Mr. Music, Ray Conniff, and his world famous singers Mixed choral la-las with triangle dingers                              Their grand...

ROBIN WILLIAMS Robin Williams, you made me laugh. I wanted to be Mindy, your earthling half. Good Morning, Vietnam woke the world to y...

Edward Snowden Rolled the dice & passed Go, then Landed on NSA utilities And had to pay ten times over for his abilities. © 201...

EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY (1875-1956) Oops.  Looks like someone forgot their party hat. Despite the austere expression, I'm quit...

EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Allan Poe His mysterious death apropos He wrote of a Raven and wrote about crime And totally rhymed sublime © ...

HILLARY'S RUNNING AGAIN... Hillary Rodham Clinton’s running again... But this time, her motherhood’s a ticket for men. How far wil...

Issa hailed from old Japan a poet and a simple man. On family he could not depend so flea or fly became a friend. © 2015 Diane Mayr....

MR. FRANKLIN Perhaps he was a bit crazy, old Ben Conducting one of his experiments again But his brilliant findings could not be dispu...

MAN IN THE MOON I’m Man in the Moon, not some bad cartoon! My crescent is a shimmery pearlescent. © 2015 Rosi Hollinbeck. All rights r...

A STAR AMONG STARS Cecilia Payne had a wonderfilled brain. She ascertained the element hydrogen was prevalent. © 2015 Tabatha Yeatts. A...

LADY LINDY Amelia Earhart, aviator, lived for now instead of later. Told that girls were not robust, she up and left them in her dust....

THE PERFECT WIFE AND MOTHER In the 50's we learned the ideal was June Cleaver, But she was a fake, an over-achiever; I'll bet ...

For me, one of the best parts of National Poetry Month is taking part in Irene Latham 's annual Progressive Poem.  It's excitin...

Kwame Alexander is Da Man! I am now his number one fan. The CROSSOVER, a book of great means, And a bridge from poetry to teens. © 2...

THE ADVICE OF SPIKE Spike Lee sits next to me Arms crossed, sad as can be, He begs me, “Please, do the right thing Never again attemp...

FOR THIS LADY, A CLERIHEW DEBUT Listen! Announcing that Lady called Gaga whose trade clothes fill scenes of an ongoing saga. Yet who ...

KWAME ALEXANDER                                              Photo: Nataki Hewling Kwame Alexander is a poet and author of eighteen...