William F Dougherty Poems

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31.
From Mad To Verse

(Old note on the day Ogden Nash cached in.)

Jabberwock, ode to a skylark,
he'd used any device (licit or il)
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32.
Villanelle On A Proverb

The heart once broken is a heart no more.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay

The proverb says that time confers relief,
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33.
Red Rain Keeps Plopping

(W. C. Williams v. Wallace Stevens)


Too much
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34.
She Was Merely

The palm of a bestowing hand,
a tendril's ringlet to the vine;
merely a primrose in the tare,
merely grape to wine.
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35.
A Paean

36.
Clerihews

I
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
lampooned illuminati intently:
his quatrains on names, with a closing flick,
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37.
Words Poetic (Dueling Duet)

To be sung to the tune of Cole Porter's 'You're the Top.'

(She)
For words poetic I'm sympathetic—
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38.
In The X-Ray Studio

Deep breath. Hold it. Don't move. Okay, breathe out.
The second scan detects a new dismay:
X-rays confirm my body's swollen doubt.
I feel the chest straps tug; nurses convey
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39.
Chagrin

Barbed words I spit out long ago
or courtly words I never said
skulk back to mind to let me know
that spoken deeds are never dead
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40.
The Execution Of The Moose

The walnut antlers swept behind his head,
a crown without dominion to defy
a brain disease that sapped his sense, misled
his sloping bulk from colder, broader sky
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