Tag Archives: Shakespeare

Shaking out the Down 

Posted on November 26, 2022 by whimsygizmo

“I am a feather for each wind that blows.” William Shakespeare :: Look up, the sky’s a fluffered songof promise. A float of hope.  Let’s make ourselves a small and quiet place to gather these loose quills caught.  **Cue the lightning.** On second thought, let’s not. … Continue reading →

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Tickling the Catastrophe 

Posted on November 20, 2022 by whimsygizmo

(on Gauntlets)  “Thou sodden-witted lord! Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows” – Troilus and Cressida (Act Two, Scene One) “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.” – Monty Python  “You scullion! You rampallian! You … Continue reading →

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Get Thee to a Punnery

Posted on April 10, 2021 by whimsygizmo

To flee or not to flee, now that’s the thing, the rub that flubs us by the final scene. We wonder, do we bow to numbered king? Exit stage left, or somewhere in between?  It’s Greek to me, we say in foreign tongueand … Continue reading →

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love poem

Posted on April 21, 2020 by whimsygizmo

.. this poem is that red, red rose that summer’s day the craving of mouth, voice, hair ………….(silent and staring) those cloudless climes and starry skies …………………….(dying, disappearing.) more thicker than forget, it’s counting the ways those moments of glad … Continue reading →

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Space for Quill

Posted on April 15, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. Greetings, I am enamored to have met someone so fair, so graced from deep within. Never have I known a bright soul yet so full of magic, madness, heaven, sin. Bright crimson lips, and skies of clearest glass, I’ll … Continue reading →

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Any Other Name

Posted on June 26, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… Rise up and call yourself strange, unchained from sky and sea and song. Moniker your soul with thorny crown, held down by silence. Stem the sweet, sweet smell of somethingness; give up up up and fill your cup, revel … Continue reading →

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One Small Shard of Bard

Posted on April 23, 2016 by whimsygizmo

Brevity is the soul of wit. – Shakespeare’s Hamlet   .. Doubt that the stars are fire, to be …..(or not) a battalion of sorrow (sling, arrow, sleep, death)? ……Words, words, words. Though this be madness, listen: smile ……..(and be … Continue reading →

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Impartial Gust

Posted on April 26, 2015 by whimsygizmo

(a Shakespearean sonnet)   . A bloodstained bandit breeze dwindles the dawn, arouses barefaced sun to blushing rise. A gloomy, frugal courtship panders on, as noiseless skysongs tease these jaded skies. Last night, the tranquil skim milk moonbeams spilled, forgot … Continue reading →

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This is Just to Say

Posted on April 7, 2015 by whimsygizmo

(a triolet) .. Oh, love is not a summer’s day, for winter comes quite quickly. Yes, plums get bruised and roses fade. Oh, love is not a summer’s day. Huzzah, now let us count the ways, some things regretted thickly. … Continue reading →

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Doubting the Stars

Posted on March 13, 2015 by whimsygizmo

(a partially found poem from Hamlet) .. “By indirections find directions out” – Hamlet .. If true north be fire, or moving sun, truth a liar that slings arrows and out -rageous fortune, is there method, madness ……..any where? If … Continue reading →

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